. Catalogue of masterpieces by "the men of 1830" : forming the private collection of Mr. H. S. Henry, Philadelphia. JEAN FRANCOIS MILLET 1814-1875. While the artistic atmosphere was torn with the cries of j)artisans, INIillot liadears only for the cry of the soil. The peasant of Gruchy is the epic painter of thenineteenth centurys newly discovered concei)lion of the dignity of work. Nor doeshe blink the inherent curse of it—the sweat and pain of labor; the distortion of bodyand premature age; the strait conditions and unhonored death—but out of the com-pleteness with which the life conforms to
. Catalogue of masterpieces by "the men of 1830" : forming the private collection of Mr. H. S. Henry, Philadelphia. JEAN FRANCOIS MILLET 1814-1875. While the artistic atmosphere was torn with the cries of j)artisans, INIillot liadears only for the cry of the soil. The peasant of Gruchy is the epic painter of thenineteenth centurys newly discovered concei)lion of the dignity of work. Nor doeshe blink the inherent curse of it—the sweat and pain of labor; the distortion of bodyand premature age; the strait conditions and unhonored death—but out of the com-pleteness with which the life conforms to its environments he discovers its in his sympathies, for he ignored the lives of other toilers not connected withthe soil, his concentration upon the chosen theme is so intense, sincere and simplethat his pictures are akin to the amplitude and typical completeness of Greek artand to the stupendous ethical significance of Michael Angelos. Trivialities aredisregarded; there is scarcely even any detail of secondary importance in his pic-tures, everything being so completely merged in the one single motive. And thelatter is e
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