. Art in France. st, which is left to us from the period of barbarism, is not anatural home of man. He goes thither for refuge or to hide field, on the contrary, is his perpetual conquest and. whethervisible or not, he is present in every part of it. While Rousseaushowed the struggle of the tree for life. Millet recorded mans con-flict with the earth from which he demands his bread. His peas-ants do not sing and dance like Corots shepherds, to whom radiantNature communicates her joy; they are not the personages ofeclogues, but the austere labourers of rude Georgics. The soil hepain
. Art in France. st, which is left to us from the period of barbarism, is not anatural home of man. He goes thither for refuge or to hide field, on the contrary, is his perpetual conquest and. whethervisible or not, he is present in every part of it. While Rousseaushowed the struggle of the tree for life. Millet recorded mans con-flict with the earth from which he demands his bread. His peas-ants do not sing and dance like Corots shepherds, to whom radiantNature communicates her joy; they are not the personages ofeclogues, but the austere labourers of rude Georgics. The soil hepaints has just been shaved by the scythe and is still stiff with theshort stubble of the cutgrain, or it is the heavytlods thrown out by theploughshare and crushedbeneath the foot of thesower; it is the hardearth which the hoebreaks with difficulty,cutting through bramblesand striking upon in the absence ofman, the earth recalls thepeasant who cultivates plough or harrowlies upon it, ready for the. FIG. 8jS. —RIBOT. SKBASTIAN. (The Luxembourg, Paris.) 396 NATURALISM
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