. McClure's magazine. e the Horatii, the Sabines, or theLeonidas at Thermopylae, we remain coldbefore their array of painted statues. Hisportraits—Marat, the charming sketch ofMadame Recamier, his own portrait as ayoung man, the group of Michel Gerardand his family, and the Pope Pius VII.—give the touch of nature which is neededto kindle the fire of humanity in this manof iron. It is as though nature had wished a con-trast to this coldly intellectual type that ried a woman whose character and habitswere such that his life was rendered un-happy thenceforward. In 1780 Prudhon went to Paris to pr
. McClure's magazine. e the Horatii, the Sabines, or theLeonidas at Thermopylae, we remain coldbefore their array of painted statues. Hisportraits—Marat, the charming sketch ofMadame Recamier, his own portrait as ayoung man, the group of Michel Gerardand his family, and the Pope Pius VII.—give the touch of nature which is neededto kindle the fire of humanity in this manof iron. It is as though nature had wished a con-trast to this coldly intellectual type that ried a woman whose character and habitswere such that his life was rendered un-happy thenceforward. In 1780 Prudhon went to Paris to prose-cute his studies; and there, two years after,was awarded a prize, founded by his prov-ince, which enabled him to go to Rome. Itis characteristic of the man that, in thecompetition for this prize, he was so touchedby the despair of one of his comrades com-peting with him that he repainted com-pletely his friends picture—with such suc-cess that it was the friend to whom theprize was awarded, and who, but for a. JUSTICE AND DIVINE VENGEANCE PURSUING CRIME. FROM A PAINTING BY PRUDHON. This picture was painted for the Criminal Court of the Palace of Justice in Paris. At thetime of the Restoration in 1816 the picture was replaced by a crucifix^ and removed to theLuxembourg gallery, where it remained until 1823, when it was placed in the Louvre. It isconsidered Prudhons masterpiece. there should have existed at the same timea painter who, seeking at the same inex-haustible fountain-head of classicism, foundinspiration for an art almost morbid in ex-cess of sentiment. Pierre Prudhon wasborn at Cluny in Burgundy, April 4, 1758,the son of a poor mason who, dying soonafter the boys birth, left him to the careof the monks of the Abbey of Cluny. Thepictures decorating the monastery visiblyaffecting the youth, the Bishop of Maconplaced him under the tuition of one Des-voges, who directed the school of paintingat Dijon. Here his progress was rapid, butat nineteen the too susceptible
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