t does not paint the lifeof country people with the austerity of Millet, who shows usthe human being imbruted and deformed by his perpetualstruggle against the earth and the elements; nor, on the otherhand, has he yielded too much to the urban and cloying senti-mentalism by means of which Jules… … AMERICAN ARTISTS AT THE PARIS EXHIBITION. 125 rural life is that of a healthy, happy man, unperverted by pessi-mism or dilettanteism or any other excess of mental refine-ment, and consequently he finds in the fields of Seine-et-Oisepeasant girls far more goodly to look upon than the rough-hewn and…
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