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Title: The art treasures of Washington : an account of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and of the National Gallery and Museum, with descriptions and criticisms of their contents; including, also, an account of the works of art in the Capitol, and in the Library of Congress, and of the most important statuary in the city
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Henderson, Helen Weston, 1874-
Subjects: Art museums Art Art
Publisher: Boston : L. C. Page & Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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when oncethe artist has taken in all its different aspects, hemust make a whole of it, and this whole will belike nature, if he has seen properly. These ideas■ also th> >se i>f Constable. The Gallery possesses an excellent example o\Constant Troyon (1810-1865), who was horn atand who received his impulse toward ani-mal painti: m a visit to Holland, in (846,where he came under the influence of Paul Totterand Cu) I studied through them the natural relationship between animals and land-cape. idu- Drinking Place was purchased for theGallery in (885. Kmile wan Marcke (1827-1890) was Troyonspupil and equally famous as an animal painter. Heplaced his cattle in pasture land-, marshes, by the sea, i- near cottages in Normandy, and his land-scape backgrounds often have as much characterand interest as the beasts. His cows were painted with more accuracy than those of Troyon, whooften failed to understand either the character orthe anatomy. Of van Marcke, the Gallery ownstwo examples.
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BRITTANY WIDOW By Jules Adolphe Breton foreign Scbools iw The rev day. Brittany Widow by Jules Adolphe Breton ; (827 is a fairly representative example of this artist. It was painted in 1886, and appearedin the Salon of that year. It represents a sailors widow, who carries to the altar of Saint Anne, the m patroness of Brittany sailors, a taper in memory of her husband. It is of the solid, stodgy painting which Breton made so faultlessly and withs little temperament. Passing to later painters, we have three exam-ples of Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille (1848—)of which Le Regiment qui Passe, painted in5, is the most important. The scene takes placeon the Grand Boulevard of Paris, befor

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