. Art and artists of our time. n before attempting the production of any importantwork, and busied himself in Brussels with portraits and ^ewre-painting. In 1848 he exhibited The Last Hours of Count Egmont, and in 1853 painted the picture by which he is, perhaps,best known, the one we engrave: The Last Honors Paid to the Bodies of Counts Egmontand Horn. After this picture Gallait painted nothing that added essentially to his fame,but some of his later pictures enjoyed for a long time a considerable amount of Forgotten Sorrow —a gypsy mother resting with her child—is in the Ravin
. Art and artists of our time. n before attempting the production of any importantwork, and busied himself in Brussels with portraits and ^ewre-painting. In 1848 he exhibited The Last Hours of Count Egmont, and in 1853 painted the picture by which he is, perhaps,best known, the one we engrave: The Last Honors Paid to the Bodies of Counts Egmontand Horn. After this picture Gallait painted nothing that added essentially to his fame,but some of his later pictures enjoyed for a long time a considerable amount of Forgotten Sorrow —a gypsy mother resting with her child—is in the Ravine Picture-Gallery at Berlin; The Prisoners Voice, Delilah, Art and Liberty, and CrazyJane —the mad queen Joana, mother of Charles V., with the dead body of her husbandPhilip—these pictures, frequently reproduced by engraving and photography, are thoseby which, in later years, Gallait was best known. But they did not have in them theseeds of a permanent popularity. All of them have a morbid, or at the best a sentimental. H lEYS , PTU;.: J , SCULPT THE ;F,R. yaiiK. ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME, 305 vein, and the Crazy Jane is needlessly disgusting. If Gallait is to live in memory itmust be by virtue of Ms historical pictures, and it cannot be denied that they have a distinctmerit in their kind. They are well composed, carefully studied on the archaeological side,but without pedantry, and they tell their story in a simple, natural way that is agreeablycontrasted with the extravagant and bombastic methods of the German painters. The LastHours of Egmont represents the count in prison on the morning of his death, looking outupon the great square of Brussels, where the scaffold is erecting for his execution. He isattended by his confessor, and on the table before him lie his letters to the king and to hiswife, Sabina, Duchess of Bavaria. The Last Honors Paid to Counts Egmont and Horn shows us the end of the dismal tragedy. The incident is historica
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