. Sketches of great painters for young people. A p-. 151 152 SKETCHES OF GREAT PAINTERS. in the artists work. The desolate monastery overlooksa shadowy river, and gives the impression of drearinessand solitude. Of the Jewish Cemetery, a French criticwrites : Three or four tombs, composed of large stones,hewn in rough and simple style, lie scattered in disorderat the foot of a great elm tree. The unequal and stonysoil, rarely pressed by the foot of man, is covered withgrass and wild plants. In the background is seen amass of trees surmounted by the spire of a sky is dark; but a splen
. Sketches of great painters for young people. A p-. 151 152 SKETCHES OF GREAT PAINTERS. in the artists work. The desolate monastery overlooksa shadowy river, and gives the impression of drearinessand solitude. Of the Jewish Cemetery, a French criticwrites : Three or four tombs, composed of large stones,hewn in rough and simple style, lie scattered in disorderat the foot of a great elm tree. The unequal and stonysoil, rarely pressed by the foot of man, is covered withgrass and wild plants. In the background is seen amass of trees surmounted by the spire of a sky is dark; but a splendid and glowing sunbeambreaks between two clouds and falls upon this field ofdeath. The scene might be designated Life and Death,but the splendor of this light has in it something wanand cold, which it is impossible to define. The Jewish Cemetery was one of Ruisdaels last weary period, when he could not paint because ofillness, and when he suffered from want, made his lastdays full of misery. At length some members of thereligious sect to w
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