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Title: Gérôme : the life and works of Jean Léon Gérôme
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Hering, Fanny Field
Subjects: Gérôme, Jean Léon, 1824-1904
Publisher: New York : Published by Cassell Publishing Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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where one can find nofaults, hut where there is almost everything to admire. Masson refers to it as that marvelous picture, so full ol purpose andacuteness, ol color and life, where Father Joseph, in Ins voluntarj poverty andmonkish simplicity, is so skillfully opposed to this gilded, iridescent, sparklingcourt. And the London AtheWSUtn says the characterization is perfect, thefigures are triumphs of design, and the picture is, as i whole, the best of Cicromeslate productions. But we might multiply indefinitely the laudatory criticismsof this well-known picture. Let us pass to the second, of which the Athenaeumwriter : We come to the chief attractions ol the Salon when we pause beforM. Gerdmes pictures. Rex Tibicen makes every one smile. All must admire theintensity ol the design and the humor oi the artist, who has shown King Frederick ol Prussia in Ins cabinet, working away at a Bute, lor the love of whichhe has thrown aside fatigue a.> well as business. He stands with hent knees
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ANACREON (SCULPTURE). /.//■/•; AND WORKS OF JEAN I /■ MB. 219 an escritoire on which he has propped up the music-sheet, and, clutchingthe magic tube with the finger-tips oi both hands, he sets his meager lips to theorifice to produce, one would imagine, harsh, unmelodious music, for he willblow, it seems, too hard, and his lean checks try to compel the sweetness theycannot utter; as it is, up go his eyebrows,and the eyeballs are uncovered in hiseagerness, while the cue of his wig quaintlj rises on the stifl collar of Ins coat,So thirsty for melody is the sold ot the kin^ that lie has not stayed to take ofthis dirt) boots! Just returned from hunting, he has stepped into the >followed by the dogs, whose muddy feel have left marks on the polished Boorand rich carpets ; but before each weary animal can throw himself down to rest,one in the kings own chair, the others on the ground, Frederick has torn open,read, and crumpled up the dispatches thai waited his coming, cast them on t

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