Meissonier, his life and his art . ss a hand over the flesh, as we long to do to the meltingcontours he has so lovingly painted. How magnificent is the arrangement here ! . . One of thefigures on the left is marvellously like my father. . Everything is fading away around us. If we could but see signsof some dawning glory in Art! . . The anecdote told of Titiancomes into my mind. We are told that passing Veronese, he bowedlow to the young man, saying, as he noted his modest confusion :Tn you I salute the art of the future. How natural, simple and serene is the work of Veronese! It islike a migh
Meissonier, his life and his art . ss a hand over the flesh, as we long to do to the meltingcontours he has so lovingly painted. How magnificent is the arrangement here ! . . One of thefigures on the left is marvellously like my father. . Everything is fading away around us. If we could but see signsof some dawning glory in Art! . . The anecdote told of Titiancomes into my mind. We are told that passing Veronese, he bowedlow to the young man, saying, as he noted his modest confusion :Tn you I salute the art of the future. How natural, simple and serene is the work of Veronese! It islike a mighty river, flowing undisturbed. . THE MASTER 153 Titian is more complex, more subtle. How marvellous is his inter-pretation of the aspect of things! . . The Italians, Veronese and the rest, troubled themselves not at allwith antiquarian researches and the famous local colour Insisted onin our own times. But in painting their scriptural scenes they felt(or so their works lead us to suppose) that the Scriptures were for. THE TWO HORSEMEN. all time, and that, so long as the figures consecrated by traditionwere always represented in the same costume, they might appropriatelybe surrounded by the contemporary crowd of the painters own . They invariably observed this rule. Thus, In the Marriage ofCana the guests are Venetian nobles, the friends of the painter,but the Saviour wears His traditional dress, as do the Virginand the Apostles. We single them out at once. No mistake Ispossible. 154 MEISSONIER At the exhibition of the Nareshkine collection, you will see thelainous Tcrburg, which was engraved, and a delicious Pieter de are nothing as compositions, but the tone is superb. We feelthat Tcrburg took a positive delight in setting a figure here and thereIn this exquisite light. There are certain grays of extraordinarydelicacy and charm. . In Titians Eiitonibnieiit, the figures of the two women are why did he evade the chief difficulty by painting the fi
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