. Gérôme : the life and works of Jean Léon Gérôme . rst that it is minute work, forthe details, being modest and intheir right places, do not continu-ally cry aloud See what a multitude we are! as details are too much in thehabit of doing in England. After gazing at the picture for the minutes webegin to discover that it is full of minute facts, which we had not seen, andit we go to the picture every day for a week, we shall always find somethingnew in it. \ Timbal takes up the theme as follows: It has been said that (icrome contents himself with seizing on the winga picturesque scene; thai he
. Gérôme : the life and works of Jean Léon Gérôme . rst that it is minute work, forthe details, being modest and intheir right places, do not continu-ally cry aloud See what a multitude we are! as details are too much in thehabit of doing in England. After gazing at the picture for the minutes webegin to discover that it is full of minute facts, which we had not seen, andit we go to the picture every day for a week, we shall always find somethingnew in it. \ Timbal takes up the theme as follows: It has been said that (icrome contents himself with seizing on the winga picturesque scene; thai he transfers it to the canvas without commentary,without seeking to add any other attraction than nl a vigorously faithfultranscription. However, it would seem that the author of the Duel of Pierrotcan overleap, when he pleases, the limits within which he often voluntarily con-fines himself, and even when he remains a simple painter ot manners andcustoms, he succeeds still in being something more. One evening, walking on GRAND BATIJ AT BEOUSSA. //// l\/> WORKS Of [EAN <///, 105 the banks of the Nile in the twilight, he was looking a1 a boal drifting down theriver over the silvery, trembling wavelets, Seated in the prow, an Axnaul wassinging to the stars, accompanying bimsell on the quzla. Was not the themesufficient? The painter, however, with the interior eye oi his imagination,beheld there an actor who would double the interest ; on the rowers bench heextended a pooi slave, his hands and feel closely confined by letters. } breeze! thou passesl over meadows the prisonei never mor hall tread;shine, o lighl of heaven! on these eyes soon to close forever; and thou, exe-cutioner, insult thy victim by voice and gesture! Here are contrasts whichmore than one painter could render with equally skillful brush, hut the heart ia poet alone will discm er them, and without having to owe a debt oi gratitude tothe chance which has furnished them ! The assertion
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