Sketches of great painters for young people (1902)
Dallin, Colonna Murray, Mrs · New York, Boston [etc.] Silver, Burdett and Company · leaf 254
the burden of the world. The Gleaners is most beautiful in tone and in har-mony of color. Three poor women, in the heat of theAugust day, gather the chance grains of wheat that thereapers have left behind, while afar the reapers heapthe plentiful harvest into wagons. This work, as hasbeen said,… … 237 238 SKETCHES OF GREAT PAINTERS. the pathos of the poor peasant womans life of toil andprivation, Several of Millets finest paintings were bought byAmericans. The Soiver is in the collection of Mr.Quincy Shaw of Boston, the Harvesters was boughtby Mr. Martin Brimmer of Boston, and the…
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