. Art in France. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD. FIG. 730.—CHINTREIIL. SPACT. (The Louvre, Paris.) softly-flowing rivers. Fixed lines, meadows well spread out, a riverslow and still which reflects the wide sky, and the poplars on the banks,the landscape which a thoughtful boatman sees as he drifts Nature promises delight, and gives a sense of well-bemg. InCorots landscapes, we sometimes see a fluting shepherd; in Dau-bignys, we always divine the fisherman and his rod (Figs. 755^757). Among these landscape paintersthere were animal painters, as inHolland. Among our Ruysdaelsand our Hobbemas ther
. Art in France. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD. FIG. 730.—CHINTREIIL. SPACT. (The Louvre, Paris.) softly-flowing rivers. Fixed lines, meadows well spread out, a riverslow and still which reflects the wide sky, and the poplars on the banks,the landscape which a thoughtful boatman sees as he drifts Nature promises delight, and gives a sense of well-bemg. InCorots landscapes, we sometimes see a fluting shepherd; in Dau-bignys, we always divine the fisherman and his rod (Figs. 755^757). Among these landscape paintersthere were animal painters, as inHolland. Among our Ruysdaelsand our Hobbemas there were alsosome Paul Potters. They were notcontent to place their flocks inmeadow-lands ; their sheep and cat-tle became the principal motive ofthe composition, Brascassat paintedred and white bulls, sleek and lustrousas chestnuts bursting from their Jacques sheep, on the otherhand, are dull and woolly; thev areby a master who was thoroughlvfamiliar with the flock, who under-stood its manner of huddling togetherand s
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