Bryant, Lorinda Munson, 1855-1933 · New York, Dodd, Mead and Co. · leaf 235
y thought them quite ordinary men. And then to wander in that forest! ProbablyMillet had in mind some of its lonely spots whenhe painted Solitude, Pennsylvania Museum,Philadelphia (Fig. 87), Note how he intensifiesthe feeling of loneliness by that solitary stone gatepost intimating a human dwelling… … AND THEIR PAINTERS 131 that oppresses us instead of the sense of an irre-trievable loss. How satisfying this compositionis with its wide open space of untrodden snowin the foreground and the fascinating backgroundof innumerable trees—a. fit place for the fairiesto dwell. Millet loved to picture…
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