The Century illustrated monthly magazine . rble, and shine like silver. I coulddwell for hours over this exciting work. Every lineis electric and bristling in sympathy with the fury ofthe scene. Then, too, the charming grace and airy lightness ofhis engraving of the Dancing Nymphs ! Buoyant,classic forms tripping hand in hand in breezy move- 402 DAUMIER, CARICATURIST. ment, with flutter of flying draperies, all in a delicate This is clearly perceptible in his treatment of the silvery key. Nothing more completely translates oneinto the realm of the mythological than his treatmentof such themes.
The Century illustrated monthly magazine . rble, and shine like silver. I coulddwell for hours over this exciting work. Every lineis electric and bristling in sympathy with the fury ofthe scene. Then, too, the charming grace and airy lightness ofhis engraving of the Dancing Nymphs ! Buoyant,classic forms tripping hand in hand in breezy move- 402 DAUMIER, CARICATURIST. ment, with flutter of flying draperies, all in a delicate This is clearly perceptible in his treatment of the silvery key. Nothing more completely translates oneinto the realm of the mythological than his treatmentof such themes. His masterpiece on copper is his en-graving of the Entombment of Christ. and in thishe rises to a sublime height. Raphael must have dwelt over this marvelous work. same subject in the Borghese Gallery at Rome, wherethe figures bearing the body of our Lord walk back-ward. Considering the few engravings made by Mantegna,— not more than twenty or twenty-five,—the virility andfreedom of his technique are all the more remarkable. T. DAUMIER, CARICATURIST/ AS we attempt,gv at the present day, to write thehistory of every-thing, it wouldbe strange if we hadhappened to neglectthe annals of carica-ture ; for the very es-sence of the art ofCruikshank and Ga-varni, of Daumierand Leech, is to behistorical; and everyone knows how ad-dicted is this greatscience to discoursingabout itself Manyindustrious seekers, inEngland and France,have ascended theDE TocQUEviLLE. Stream of time to fol-low to its source the modern movement of pic-torial satire. The stream of time is in this casemainly the stream of journalism; for social andpolitical caricature, as the present century haspracticed it, is only journalism made doublyvivid. The subject indeed is a large one, if we re-flect upon it, for many people would tell usthat journalism is the greatest invention of ourage. If this rich branch has shared the greatfortune of the parent stream, so, on other sides,it touches the fine arts, touche
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