The Netherland galleries : being a history of the Dutch school of painting, illuminated and demonstrated by critical descriptions of the great paintings in the many galleries (1912)
Preyer, David C. (David Charles), 1861-1913 · Boston : St. Botolph Society · leaf 240
d by The Man withthe Hoe, we are indeed impressed with the hope-less, grovelling spirit of this brother of the ox.To find the same spirit in any of Mauves paint-ings is to be utterly ignorant of the character of hismodels. True, they toil and labour, the old manis trudging homeward behind the… … PIETERDE HOOGH THE BUTTERY Plate xxiii{See page 263) Ryks MuseumAmsterdam Vbe £ Iff Centura Dutcb painters 177 philosophy of these peasant-lives is to do the hardwork in the days course cheerfully, and contentedwith their lot. They are happy in their toil, and inthe rest after the work is done.…
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