. Fifty years of modern painting, Corot to Sargent . rkingthe cobbler and his boy, the sempstress, and the flax-spinners. His pictures of women and girls out in the open,mending nets, or—as in our illustration—tending sheep orgoats, remind us strongly of the work of Millet—only thesepeople are happier than those of Millet. It takes all sorts,we say, to make a world. It takes many artists of veryvarious temperaments to interpret even a little corner ofour world ; and, even then, how much is left untold! Here must end our brief survey of German art. Did itprofess to be a record of all painters o
. Fifty years of modern painting, Corot to Sargent . rkingthe cobbler and his boy, the sempstress, and the flax-spinners. His pictures of women and girls out in the open,mending nets, or—as in our illustration—tending sheep orgoats, remind us strongly of the work of Millet—only thesepeople are happier than those of Millet. It takes all sorts,we say, to make a world. It takes many artists of veryvarious temperaments to interpret even a little corner ofour world ; and, even then, how much is left untold! Here must end our brief survey of German art. Did itprofess to be a record of all painters of considerable merit,much would have to be added. As a survey to aid informing a general estimate of the art of our own country inrelation to that of others, it may suffice. The countries whose art we have already considered—France, Holland, Belgium, and Germany—are the mostimportant for the purpose of enabling us to understand thegeneral progress of painting during the period we haveunder review. To them we must add America or, strictly,. PAINTING IN OTHER COUNTRIES 263 the United States of America, whose artists—we can hardlysay, as we shall see hereafter, whose art—have had amarked influence on the art of our own country. First,however, we must say what seems needful about the artof other European countries, to which I purpose to refer inonly the most general terms. Russia may be left out ofaccount altogether; not because painting in Russia lacksinterest and importance, but because it is not in close rela-tion to the art-movements that have influenced and stillinfluence the art of the rest of Europe and America andour own country. Of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden butlittle need be said. They are among the provinces ofEuropean art, taking from the great centres much morethan they have to give. Their painters treat historical,religious, genre, and landscape subjects with only localdifferences—interesting, however, to note—from the wayin which they are treated e
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