. What pictures to see in America. O o m I O i:jM Fig. 104—The Last Day of the Condemned. Munkacsy. Gallery, Philadelphia. Wilstach. Fig. 105—Barbaro After the Hunt. Rosa Bonheur. Wilstach Gallery. Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA 173 effort that places Whistler among the greatportrait painters of the world. The mysteri-ous essence we call personal charm that hov-ers around his people is of the spirit, for it israrely that he represents beautiful women orhandsome men. In fact, the reverse is soprominent that we almost feel an impatienceat his perverseness, then we smile for we knowthat he has made u
. What pictures to see in America. O o m I O i:jM Fig. 104—The Last Day of the Condemned. Munkacsy. Gallery, Philadelphia. Wilstach. Fig. 105—Barbaro After the Hunt. Rosa Bonheur. Wilstach Gallery. Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA 173 effort that places Whistler among the greatportrait painters of the world. The mysteri-ous essence we call personal charm that hov-ers around his people is of the spirit, for it israrely that he represents beautiful women orhandsome men. In fact, the reverse is soprominent that we almost feel an impatienceat his perverseness, then we smile for we knowthat he has made us admire his people in spiteof ourselves. One of the most curious instances of thesudden reversal of fortune is connected withthe painting of The Last Day of the Con-demned (Fig. 104) by Michael de IMunkacsy(1846-1900). Munkacsy was a in life he was left an orphan in extremepoverty but, nothing daunted, he determinedto be educated and to become an artist. Thencame a trial that would have defeated a lesserman. He was attacked with a disease of theeyes. For six months, in a hospital with thethought of total bli
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