Meissonier, his life and his art . the age of thirty, explain and justify hisreputation as fully as any which have followed. Isit not, indeed, a common characteristic of strongartistic natures to give the measure of their strengthfrom the very first, and to manifest themselves onceand for all in the carl\- fruits of their genius . Ingres reveals himself fully in hisfirst portraits and in hisCEdipus, as does Gros inhis Battle of Nazareth, andGericault in his Cliasscur onHorseback. Delacroix was notyet twenty-four when he gavea foretaste of the qualitiesthat were to distinguish thepainter of the
Meissonier, his life and his art . the age of thirty, explain and justify hisreputation as fully as any which have followed. Isit not, indeed, a common characteristic of strongartistic natures to give the measure of their strengthfrom the very first, and to manifest themselves onceand for all in the carl\- fruits of their genius . Ingres reveals himself fully in hisfirst portraits and in hisCEdipus, as does Gros inhis Battle of Nazareth, andGericault in his Cliasscur onHorseback. Delacroix was notyet twenty-four when he gavea foretaste of the qualitiesthat were to distinguish thepainter of the Medcea andthe Barque du Don Juan, inhis Dante. Mcissonier is anexample of a like precociousdevelopment. Perfect healthof mind, preserved to the verjend of his life by organs ofextraordinary vigour and deli-cacy, precision of sentiment,seconded by wonderfully pene-trating sight, and prodigiousdexterity of execution—theseare qualities evident in allhis works, to whatever periodthey belong. Of course, ashe grew older, the masters. rEKClL SKETCH. APPENDIX 353
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