. What pictures to see in America. Fig. 49—Joan of Arc. Bastien-Lepage. Metropolitan Museum ofArt. New York Fig. 50—The Boy with a Sword. Manet. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York City. NEW YORK CITY 99 other, and afterward I hear people say thatthey are like Rembrandt or like Clouet. Hewas often called the peasant realist of modernFrance. The Boy with a Sword (Fig. 50), byEdouard Manet (1832-1883), was one of thestartling innovations in portraiture of thisleader of impressionism, and perhaps the mostattractive one—an unquestioned , like Millet, was searching for fund
. What pictures to see in America. Fig. 49—Joan of Arc. Bastien-Lepage. Metropolitan Museum ofArt. New York Fig. 50—The Boy with a Sword. Manet. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York City. NEW YORK CITY 99 other, and afterward I hear people say thatthey are like Rembrandt or like Clouet. Hewas often called the peasant realist of modernFrance. The Boy with a Sword (Fig. 50), byEdouard Manet (1832-1883), was one of thestartling innovations in portraiture of thisleader of impressionism, and perhaps the mostattractive one—an unquestioned , like Millet, was searching for funda-mental truths and getting away from the setrules that were killing all originality in theFrench art of his day. An extremist, one whois not afraid to break with tradition, is neces-sary to the progress of the world. The ex-tremist never has the approval of the generalpublic, and rightly so, but we gratefully ac-knowledge that it is his courage of convictionthat lifts the world out of a rut to a higherplane. As we look at the Dead Christ, next tothe attractive boy gazing so frankly at us, wesay this is n
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