. Jules Bastien-Lepage and his art. A memoir. ition ; above the fountain was to be placedon a scroll of all the colours of the rainbow, the nameof the cosmetic, and the address of the place where itwas sold. Naturally Bastien refused, and the tradesman, dis-appointed of his advertisement, left him the picture forhis trouble. This painting was exhibited in the Salon of 1873,under the title of Au Printemps (In Spring) ; beingplaced very high it attracted no attention. Jules was not discouraged, but he was a prey to thatrestless and feverish indecision which commonly besetsbeginners. The teaching
. Jules Bastien-Lepage and his art. A memoir. ition ; above the fountain was to be placedon a scroll of all the colours of the rainbow, the nameof the cosmetic, and the address of the place where itwas sold. Naturally Bastien refused, and the tradesman, dis-appointed of his advertisement, left him the picture forhis trouble. This painting was exhibited in the Salon of 1873,under the title of Au Printemps (In Spring) ; beingplaced very high it attracted no attention. Jules was not discouraged, but he was a prey to thatrestless and feverish indecision which commonly besetsbeginners. The teaching in the school troubled him,and being a great admirer of Puvis de Chavannes, hewas tempted to try decorative and allegorical painting. His second picture, La Chanson du Printemps (TheSong of Spring), exhibited in 1874, is conceived andexecuted under this influence. It represents a youngpeasant girl seated at the edge of a wood, bordered bya meadow which slopes down to a Meusian village,whose red-tiled roofs are seen in the distance. The girl. (ii;\\|.| u in i I .,By Jit, /: I | AS MAN AND ARTIST. 27 is sitting, with wide-open eyes, her arm passed throughthe bowed handle of a rustic basket strewn with violets,while from behind her nude little children with butter-flies wings and blowing upon pipes, whisper to her thesong of the growing grass, and tell her of comingwomanhood. This light and spring-like picture, half realistic,half symbolical, would, perhaps, in spite of its simplecliarm, have left the public indifferent if it had notbeen accompanied by another, which suddenly broughtthe artist into the light, and was the success of theSalon of 1874. During his last holiday at Damvillers, Bastien-Lepage had conceived the idea of painting the portraitof his grandfather, in the open air, in the little gardenwhich the old man loved to cultivate. The grandfather was represented seated in a gardenchair, holding on his knees his horn snuff-box and hishandkerchief of blue cotton. His str
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