. Art and artists of our time . ll over his hearers heads a large family of pigeons come and go, or rest on the perchesprovided for them; at the end of the room an Arab on his part of the bench has a family ofkittens in his charge, the mother-cat playing on the floor beside him. The reader, too, hashis cat beside him—there are no other animals in sight. There is a freedom and naturalnessabout Gentzs Eastern studies that we do not find in Geromes pictures. The French artisthas too much self-consciousness, is too much bent on picture-making; Gentz is perhaps moreof a photographer than a painter,
. Art and artists of our time . ll over his hearers heads a large family of pigeons come and go, or rest on the perchesprovided for them; at the end of the room an Arab on his part of the bench has a family ofkittens in his charge, the mother-cat playing on the floor beside him. The reader, too, hashis cat beside him—there are no other animals in sight. There is a freedom and naturalnessabout Gentzs Eastern studies that we do not find in Geromes pictures. The French artisthas too much self-consciousness, is too much bent on picture-making; Gentz is perhaps moreof a photographer than a painter, but in his line he is unrivalled. A. VON Rambeegs At the Embroidery-frame, is a piece of innocent sentimentalityaltogether German in its way, but not belonging to our time; it is the innocence of our grand- 200 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. mothers day—these are creatures quite too bright and good for tlie daily food of this genera-tion, and indeed at any time we fear they would be safer in a glass case than in the jostling. A STORY-TELLER OF CAIRO. FROM THE PICTURE BY WILHELM GENTZ. world. Considering the deep absorption in his devotion expressed by the gentlemans coun-tenance, the object of it is singularly unmoved, but then it may be questioned whether any- ^ .»^i^
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