Modern paintings as seen and described by great writers (1911)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, compiler, editor · New York : Dodd, Mead & Company · leaf 58
It will be remarked that artists often misun-derstand their own temperament. Corot is a dreamer,and never was a realist. But if the exact rendering of na-ture is not precisely his goal, it is assuredly the safest roadto reach it; and Michallon, by giving him this direction,rendered him a real… … LE MATIN 35 the background, and the foreground composed of big leavesas repoussoir, Michallon was looked upon as a seeker afterrealism, because his subjects were chosen from nature in-stead of being composed with the sole help of imagination.Still, if he did not invent his landscapes, he painted…
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