painted in the cholera year and representsa crowd of sick and poor waiting for medicines.The grouping of the figures is lifelike: two dogs arefighting for a bone in the foreground; round thecorner, in the distance, in a street drawn in fine out-line, is a hearse. They say that Vintcent was… … V ■x. The Romanticists 35 not make the romanticist. It was rather the feeling,the combination, the conception, the gruesomeness,as in the case again of his illustrations to Macbethythat gave the necessary suggestiveness. And yet wecannot believe, when we contemplate the false andsentimental feeling…
Painting, Dutch and Flemish
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