. St. Nicholas [serial] . oingin the hearts of the patient, plodding, God-fearing toilers. Everything was typical. Wehave spoken of his Sower. Of another pic-ture the critic Castagnary wrote: Do youremember his Reaper ? He might havereaped the whole earth ! Everything that Millet did was full of a deepseriousness and sincerity. He never was an easy painter, so that his greatness as an artistis perhaps more clear in the black-and-whitethan in the colored subjects. Certainly in hiscrayon drawings, lithographs, and etchings heproved himself to be one of that limited numberof artists who may be re
. St. Nicholas [serial] . oingin the hearts of the patient, plodding, God-fearing toilers. Everything was typical. Wehave spoken of his Sower. Of another pic-ture the critic Castagnary wrote: Do youremember his Reaper ? He might havereaped the whole earth ! Everything that Millet did was full of a deepseriousness and sincerity. He never was an easy painter, so that his greatness as an artistis perhaps more clear in the black-and-whitethan in the colored subjects. Certainly in hiscrayon drawings, lithographs, and etchings heproved himself to be one of that limited numberof artists who may be reckoned master-drafts-men. Moreover, the character that he ex-presses is of that grand and elemental qualitywhich sometimes reminds us of Michelangelo. Millets influence produced a host of paintersof the peasant, among whom the strongest arethe Frenchman LHermitte, and Israels theDutchman. These, like him, have representedtheir subject with sympathy and with under-standing also. Breton, however, has not. Vol. XXXII.— BY THE SEA IN AUGUST WEATHER. By Margaret Hamilton.
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