. Art and artists of our time . add it to our own find, and to have the chance the bargain gaveto chat a bit with this struggle-for-lifer, as the French slang of to-day has it. It was ine^d-table that the contrast should force itself upon us between the actual man as we had seenhim and the man as he stood in Israels picture. All is, that there are as many sides toeverything in human life as there are human beings who regard it; and nothing reaUy is; 320 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME, but all is, as it seems to him who looks at it. The little sketch Folding Sheep by Moon-light reminds ns of Mille
. Art and artists of our time . add it to our own find, and to have the chance the bargain gaveto chat a bit with this struggle-for-lifer, as the French slang of to-day has it. It was ine^d-table that the contrast should force itself upon us between the actual man as we had seenhim and the man as he stood in Israels picture. All is, that there are as many sides toeverything in human life as there are human beings who regard it; and nothing reaUy is; 320 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME, but all is, as it seems to him who looks at it. The little sketch Folding Sheep by Moon-light reminds ns of Millet, whose pictures, no doubt, had much to do with turning the talentof Israels from the barren painting of subjects dead and gone, to the illustration of the livesand labors of the peasant-folk and flsher-folli of his native country. But the quality of hissentiment is very different from that of Millet. It is far less robust and uncompromising,and where the Frenchman inspires us with active sympathy for poverty cheerfully borne,. a village interior. FROM THE PAINTING BY JOSEF ISRAELS, and uncomplaining labor, making us courageously ashamed to rebel against our own lot, thepictures of Israels that deal with such subjects are rather apt to waste our sympathy in an-swering tears and sighs. Mr. William Ernest Henley, in his notes on some of the pictures ofIsraels (in the Catalogue of the French and Dutch Pictures in the Loan Collection at Edin-burgh in 1886), describes a picture caUed For These and All Thy Mercies: an old womanand her son seated at a table, with a dish of potatoes between them—a cheerful subjectenough, one would think, but which, he says, must be wrongly named, because both mother ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 321 and son are crushed Avitli grief! «It is cnrious to reflect, how fond the Northern people are ofsuch subjects: the Germans, the Dutch, the English! You may go through the FrenchSalon and perhai^s not find one such subject painted by a Frenchman. The pict
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