International studio . GRAND CIRQUE PINDERETCHING BY AUGUSTE BROUET AUGUSTE BROUET, PAINTER-ETCHER. lantiquaire. etch-ing BV AUGUSTE BROUET observation every day, and whose charac-teristics he was perfectly familiar withbefore he sketched them. Here he hasdone no more than follow the example ofhis illustrious forerunners, Rembrandt andWhistler, both of whom took delight inrecording, in exquisite little plates, typesand scenes from the life of the people. 0 The poor of Brouet, let it be said,provoke neither pity nor sorrow. He is anartist and only an artist; he sees, andrenders what he sees. Th
International studio . GRAND CIRQUE PINDERETCHING BY AUGUSTE BROUET AUGUSTE BROUET, PAINTER-ETCHER. lantiquaire. etch-ing BV AUGUSTE BROUET observation every day, and whose charac-teristics he was perfectly familiar withbefore he sketched them. Here he hasdone no more than follow the example ofhis illustrious forerunners, Rembrandt andWhistler, both of whom took delight inrecording, in exquisite little plates, typesand scenes from the life of the people. 0 The poor of Brouet, let it be said,provoke neither pity nor sorrow. He is anartist and only an artist; he sees, andrenders what he sees. These famishedand tattered people of the streets—are theyreally sad themselves i Certainly not. Iflife is often hard for them they bear theburden not without philosophy, and theyare not strangers to laughter and has not fallen into a very commonerror, for which an inopportune philan-thropy is responsible ; his poor are moretrue to life and more beautiful for notbeing at all down in the mouth. a 136 Still keeping to the same locality, Brouethas portrayed the gipsies, the pedlars, the
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