. Catalogue of masterpieces by "the men of 1830" : forming the private collection of Mr. H. S. Henry, Philadelphia. Catalogue Raisonni by Francis D. Millet, Photogratttres by Gilbo d- and arranged by Mr. Thomas E. Kirby Biograpliical Notes and Appreciations OF THE PAINTERS REPRESENTED JEAN BAPTISTE CAMILLE COROT. 171)0-1874 Was fliere ever a liappier man than Pere Corot, or one belter loved by liis friends ?Happiness and i()\al)leness breathe from his pictures. He had inherited the whole-some hardiness of the middle-elass French character; its orderliness and balance,
. Catalogue of masterpieces by "the men of 1830" : forming the private collection of Mr. H. S. Henry, Philadelphia. Catalogue Raisonni by Francis D. Millet, Photogratttres by Gilbo d- and arranged by Mr. Thomas E. Kirby Biograpliical Notes and Appreciations OF THE PAINTERS REPRESENTED JEAN BAPTISTE CAMILLE COROT. 171)0-1874 Was fliere ever a liappier man than Pere Corot, or one belter loved by liis friends ?Happiness and i()\al)leness breathe from his pictures. He had inherited the whole-some hardiness of the middle-elass French character; its orderliness and balance,and its shrewd, <,a-nial, sprifrhfly cheerfulness. Ilis father, a hair-dresser in the Kuedu Bac, number .57, married a milliners assistant, who worked at number 1, nearthe Pont Royal. Two years after the birth of Camille, Madame Corot took overthe millinery business, and with such success that under Napoleon I. Corot becamecourt milliner. He sent his son to the high school at Rouen, and afterwards appren-ticed him to a linen-drapers establishment. When Camille was twenty-three liisfather yielded to his desire to be an artist, and promised him a yearly allowance oftwelve hundred francs, which he doubled twenty-three years later, when his sonreceived the cross of the Legion of Honor; for, as he said, Camille seems to havetalent acatalogueofmaste00amer
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