Meissonier, his life and his art . rEKClL SKETCH. APPENDIX 353. work became more varied. More complicated themes took their places side by side with the Smokers, the J^/ohvicello-players, the Readers in their studies, the Bowlplayers at the tavern ; scenes of an energy some-times culminating in violence, like La Rixe, epic in their evocation of great events, like the justly famous picture known as iSr^, and occasionally full of a delicate humour, like the Sign-painter and T/ie Sergeants Portrait. But the manner— using this word to denote the painters personal method of interpreting the phenome
Meissonier, his life and his art . rEKClL SKETCH. APPENDIX 353. work became more varied. More complicated themes took their places side by side with the Smokers, the J^/ohvicello-players, the Readers in their studies, the Bowlplayers at the tavern ; scenes of an energy some-times culminating in violence, like La Rixe, epic in their evocation of great events, like the justly famous picture known as iSr^, and occasionally full of a delicate humour, like the Sign-painter and T/ie Sergeants Portrait. But the manner— using this word to denote the painters personal method of interpreting the phenomena of light and colour—never changed throughout his work ; it is the outcome of sincerity of thought and unalterable love of truth. Meissonier was, as wc are all ready to admit, neither the first nor the only artist whose works have these special characteristics. The Dutch Little Masters of the seventeenth century had the same ingenious veracit}, the same imagin-ative vision, which, by the choice of certain effects of chiaroscuro, the relation of certain
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