. Art and artists of our time . frame, has started off to have a little fun with thesheep, and has succeeded in getting the flock into a high state of hysterics. They were mak-ing for the farmhouse yard, but they are brought to a pause—partly by the difficulty ofscaling the fence bars; one of the lambs has squeezed himself through them, and is off, butone of the sheep is coming to grief in his vaulting ambition, while a third is thinking too longabout it to have his thinking come to anything. Then, again, some of the sheep have caught 3o8 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. siglit of their enemy, and
. Art and artists of our time . frame, has started off to have a little fun with thesheep, and has succeeded in getting the flock into a high state of hysterics. They were mak-ing for the farmhouse yard, but they are brought to a pause—partly by the difficulty ofscaling the fence bars; one of the lambs has squeezed himself through them, and is off, butone of the sheep is coming to grief in his vaulting ambition, while a third is thinking too longabout it to have his thinking come to anything. Then, again, some of the sheep have caught 3o8 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. siglit of their enemy, and are beginning to blusli at his insignificance; it is a chance if the oldram does not give him a taste of his horns and send him to Jericho. But the most potentinfluence that is working to calm the flock, is the appearance of their master, who, on hearingthe hnbbnb, has come out of his cottage, and is calling them to order with his well-knownvoice. Meissner has had good fortune at home; his pictures are hung in the Academy of. FRIGHTENED THE PICTURE BY E. MEISSNER. Yienna, in the Miiseum at Dresden, in the palace of the King of Saxony, and he has been afavorite here as well, many of his best pictures belonging to Americans. For a time, too, we heard a good deal of Ziigel in this country; his pictures of sheep,mostly small canvases, were seen in the dealers shops, and eagerly bought; their simplicityand naturalness made them many friends. But, of late we have not seen them so Johann ZxJGEL was born in 1850 at Murrhard, in Wurtemberg, but after movingabout a little in Germany—a year and a half in Stuttgart, then for a like stay in Vienna, he ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 309 finally came to settle down in Munich, where he still lives and paints. His Sheep-washing,Ox-team, Cattle Flying before a Storm, and in the National Gallery of Berlin his Sheep in an Alder Grove —are among his best known pictures. The one we copy, Openthe Door for Us ! belo
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