Meissonier, his life and his art . AFTER BREAKFAST. ( Springers collection, Vienn:t.) 184 MEISSONIER. THE HEADER. {Le Liseuv rose.)(Picture in ihe possession of M. de Eeistegui.) investigations, simply a reproduction of the various representativestages of development in France. The peasant of Vaubans days, and ART 185 lastly the peasant of our own—in his relative comfort, and with hisbit of land, his own now, in very deed. Exact portrayals of our various epochs, such as I describe, arecompletely lacking. The painters part is to come to the aid of history. Thiersspeaks of the flash of sw
Meissonier, his life and his art . AFTER BREAKFAST. ( Springers collection, Vienn:t.) 184 MEISSONIER. THE HEADER. {Le Liseuv rose.)(Picture in ihe possession of M. de Eeistegui.) investigations, simply a reproduction of the various representativestages of development in France. The peasant of Vaubans days, and ART 185 lastly the peasant of our own—in his relative comfort, and with hisbit of land, his own now, in very deed. Exact portrayals of our various epochs, such as I describe, arecompletely lacking. The painters part is to come to the aid of history. Thiersspeaks of the flash of swords. The painter graves that flash uponmens minds. For years we have gone up and down in the country, withoutmarking the peasant at his toil. Then Millet comes, and shows usthe poor beast of burden, riveted to the soil by ceaseless, mercilesslabour, and the sightenters into our veryhearts. It was thesame with landscape. Since, having lostour belief, we can nolonger give anv ex-pression to religiousfeeling, I would en-deavour, if I wereMinister of Fine Arts,to give an impulseto historical
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