Modern french masters; a series of biographical and critical reviews by American artists (1896)
Van Dyke, John Charles, 1856-1932 ed · New York, The Century co. · leaf 322
composition of his own, instead of paintinghaphazard what absolute realism fm-nished him. A clump ofpeople facing in toward the grave was an impossible arrange-ment which has been avoided by the piuely conventional ex-pedient of placing the thiity-nine figiu-es in a straight line twoor three deep,… … i GUSTAVE COURBET 205 beadles, and clergy,—while on the right are the friends andrelatives. The two groups are well contrasted; some of theofficial heads are pushed to the point of caricature, but theopposing group of mourners expresses a sincere, unexagger-ated grief. The tone of the pictui-e is…
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