. Art in France. 885. — PfVIS DE OF SAINT (PantWon, Paris.) NATURALISM. FIG. SS*).—PUVIS DE SACRED GROVE. (Museum of Lyons.) of a church, a pool withwater-lilies, sufficedClaude Monet for thethread on which hestrung his glittering gems(Figs. 899-901). 1 he reflections of Im-pressionism are to befound in the greater partof contemporary paint-ing ; its sparks kindleda blaze of fireworks indecorative art. Land-scape painters have sofar profited by it thatthey have learnt to differentiate the light of special hours andregions. Theodore Rousseau


. Art in France. 885. — PfVIS DE OF SAINT (PantWon, Paris.) NATURALISM. FIG. SS*).—PUVIS DE SACRED GROVE. (Museum of Lyons.) of a church, a pool withwater-lilies, sufficedClaude Monet for thethread on which hestrung his glittering gems(Figs. 899-901). 1 he reflections of Im-pressionism are to befound in the greater partof contemporary paint-ing ; its sparks kindleda blaze of fireworks indecorative art. Land-scape painters have sofar profited by it thatthey have learnt to differentiate the light of special hours andregions. Theodore Rousseau made but a slight distinction betweensouthern sunshine and that of the Ile-de-France; Corot confoundedthat of Italy with that of Picardy. They obliterated the too char-acteristic brilHancy of each particular hour and of every individualsky. A new world has been discovered and explored which nopainter can now ignore. The Impressionists have formed a decorative style; the briUiantpolychromy of their palettes incites these subtle observers con-tinually to new fantasies of colour. Claude Monet fell into the


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