Life, art, and letters of George Inness . of emotion and painted in a rutilant color. He was alwayscareful, however, to retain for all painting its special quali-ties of material and enamel, and never tried to put the essen-tial qualities of either pastel or coater colors into oil-paint-ing. Thus he was proceeding from Millet, Jules Dupre,and Rousseau, while preserving his original work. We al-ways proceed from the time in which we live, and the workswhich have impressed us at the beginning of our career; butour personality comes out, however. Baudry and Chav-annes, in their decorative works,
Life, art, and letters of George Inness . of emotion and painted in a rutilant color. He was alwayscareful, however, to retain for all painting its special quali-ties of material and enamel, and never tried to put the essen-tial qualities of either pastel or coater colors into oil-paint-ing. Thus he was proceeding from Millet, Jules Dupre,and Rousseau, while preserving his original work. We al-ways proceed from the time in which we live, and the workswhich have impressed us at the beginning of our career; butour personality comes out, however. Baudry and Chav-annes, in their decorative works, proceeded from the Italianmasters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, although ina different degree; the English school of the beginning ofthe century had influence over Delacroix. A new art cannotbe born in a day; a whole century is hardly sufficient for I must speak now of the works that I like best among collection of Inness work. Number Seven would,if signed by Turner, Millet, or Corot, be worth ten thou- 180. SUCCESS AND RECOGNITION sand dollars and over. In my view it is equivalent to the lx\stlandscape ever painted by any great landscape-painter. No warm and stormy day in June has ever been felt better or expressed better. Nature has been sometimes seen as if it were asleep in a golden atmosphere, when there was no wind,but an oppressive air full of languor. The sun behind tla-clouds was not throwing any shade under the trees. Waterswere still in the shallow rivers; one could feel that not a singleleaf was trembling. Nature was taking her afternoons , in my opinion, Inness, as I remember him, must havehad such a feeling when he painted that magnificent piece ofart, which is undoubtedly of the highest order. The color-ing of the green tones is positively delightful, for it may besaid that no eye was ever more sensitive than Innesss tothe richness of the green tones brought about by the summerlight. This painting should be at the Metropolita
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