. Gérôme : the life and works of Jean Léon Gérôme . withwhich people, not familiar with the naked figure, come iii sever the ideas ,,t nudity and immoralit] and adds: II writers who arc destitute ut pictorial perceptions, yel have a command of language, become for some reason warmlyinterested in a discussion about artists, they are able to do considerable harm,because they combine the ignorance and willfulness of infancy with the com-bative skill of trained intellectual LIFE AND WORKS OF JI /. LEOh GER&ME. 19 We heartily agree with Mr. Hamerton, and are content to offsel the opinionso
. Gérôme : the life and works of Jean Léon Gérôme . withwhich people, not familiar with the naked figure, come iii sever the ideas ,,t nudity and immoralit] and adds: II writers who arc destitute ut pictorial perceptions, yel have a command of language, become for some reason warmlyinterested in a discussion about artists, they are able to do considerable harm,because they combine the ignorance and willfulness of infancy with the com-bative skill of trained intellectual LIFE AND WORKS OF JI /. LEOh GER&ME. 19 We heartily agree with Mr. Hamerton, and are content to offsel the opinionsoi this class oi self-styled critics, as superficial ;m«l incompetent as they are detrimental to the progress I true art, by the judgment of so learned and worldrenowned an authority as Alexandre Dumas, who writes oi Gerdmi A serious talent, and oi an elevated order; an artist who looks a1 his artnobly and who devotes to it his existeno ever) instant, every thought; onebreathes freely again before such works as his; above all, when, like us, one hassighed, Alas ! the standard oi ar1 is being lowered ! Or to quote the words of thai othei distinguished immortal, the eloquenl andgifted director of the Comedie Franchise, Jules Claretie (ierome can. with good right, treat these antique subjects and \i\ilv themwith his art. so sober, so chaste, so pure. And again : •• His art is like his person, like his intelligence ; everything which hears hissignature, he it bronze
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