The Century illustrated monthly magazine . OLD CLASSICISTS. 413 DA UMIER. CA RICA TURIS CONNOISSEURS. Paris) — this temporary illustration, whowas ignobly ugly, would not be vivid to us to-day had not Daumier, who was often effectiveat his expense, happened to have representedhim, in some crisis of his career, as a sort ofnaked inconsolable Vitellius. He renders thehuman body with a cynical sense of its possibleflabbiness and an intimate acquaintance withits structure. Une Promenade Conjugale,in the series of Tout ce quon voudra, por-trays a hillside, on a summer afternoon, onwhich a man h
The Century illustrated monthly magazine . OLD CLASSICISTS. 413 DA UMIER. CA RICA TURIS CONNOISSEURS. Paris) — this temporary illustration, whowas ignobly ugly, would not be vivid to us to-day had not Daumier, who was often effectiveat his expense, happened to have representedhim, in some crisis of his career, as a sort ofnaked inconsolable Vitellius. He renders thehuman body with a cynical sense of its possibleflabbiness and an intimate acquaintance withits structure. Une Promenade Conjugale,in the series of Tout ce quon voudra, por-trays a hillside, on a summer afternoon, onwhich a man has thrown himself on his backto rest, with his arms locked under his fat, full-bosomed, middle-aged wife, un-der her parasol, with a bunch of field-flowersin her hand, looks down at him patiently andseems to say, Come, my dear, get up. Thereis surely no great point in this — that is, theonly point is life, the glimpse of the little snatchof poetry in prose. It is a matter of a fewbroad strokes of the crayon ; yet the pleasantlaziness of the man, the idleness of the day,the
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