minating thegeneral realism. At the Universal Exhibition Mr. Pearce wasrepresented by a portrait, La Melancolie, Le Soir, and Une Bergere. The last, a souvenir of Picardy, is reproducedin our engraving, and represents the artist at his best. On asloping hill-side, with a rugged path straggling up… … AMERICAN ARTISTS AT THE PARIS EXHIBITION. 129 in vacant thoughtlessness, her attitude that of stolid weariness,unless it be one of hallucination and day-dreaming. Howeverthat may be, the picture is an admirable rendering of open air,luminous distance, and gray atmospheric effects, and the figureof…
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