. Art and criticism : monographs and studies. of the simplest sites, often absolutelypoor in line. One depicts the entrance of a village with a fewcottages, some ragged poplar-trees, the roseate note of red-tiled SOME MODERN FRENCH PAINTERS. 19 roofs, some unobtrusive figures, and a luminous sky, character-ized by a fugacious and subtle effect. Another, entitled UneVille Morte, reproduced in our engraving, represents the huge,rain-washed, and deserted square of a provincial town, linedwith rows of irregular houses; it is night; the rolling blackrain clouds are scudding across the sky, obscurin
. Art and criticism : monographs and studies. of the simplest sites, often absolutelypoor in line. One depicts the entrance of a village with a fewcottages, some ragged poplar-trees, the roseate note of red-tiled SOME MODERN FRENCH PAINTERS. 19 roofs, some unobtrusive figures, and a luminous sky, character-ized by a fugacious and subtle effect. Another, entitled UneVille Morte, reproduced in our engraving, represents the huge,rain-washed, and deserted square of a provincial town, linedwith rows of irregular houses; it is night; the rolling blackrain clouds are scudding across the sky, obscuring the moon ;in the windows of the houses we see the glare of lamps; at thedoor of the inn the yellow diligence stands; and the blanksquare seems still to re-echo with the rattling of the wheels onthe rugged pavement. LOrage shows us some bright greenfields, a rail-fence, a shed with red-tiled roof, a windmill, a water-course, a lurid, cloudy sky, and in the background a suggestionof forked lightning: it is a glimpse of nature seen and uncom-. UNE VILLE the painting by M. Jean Charles Cazin. 50 ART AND CRITICISM. posed. Poussin, treating the same subject, would have painteda complete melodrama. La Marne is a late evening sunset is lost in a dark haze below the horizon, while thevault of heaven is still illumined with vertical rose-colored is a bridge, a lock, the bank lined with trees, and beyondthem the mass of cottages, above which rise the finer housesof the wealthy. The river, calm and vitreous, reflects with in-tensity the mirage of the landscape and sky, while in the fore-ground are figures of female bathers and of a handmaiden car-rying refreshments on a tray. The nude figures are exquisitein silhouette and in unconsciousness of pose. In its splendidharmony of gray, green, and rose, this picture is a complete anddefinitive vision of evening calm at the river-side, familiar, andyet grave and impressive, for the hour has something of mel-anc
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