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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 189

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. One of his pictures, representing an old wood-cutter followed by Death, was refused at the Salon,because it was supposed that he meant to showthe hardships and sufferings of the peasant class. But there was no political purpose in Milletspaintings. He always looked upon peasants asthe happiest… … THE NEW-BORN LAMB. (AFTER A PAINTING BY MILLET., Children were always welcomed in Milletscottage, but there were other less agreeable visit-ors. The grand people of the court, who some-times came to the studio after hunting parties atFontainebleau, were coldly received, for they didnot understand…

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