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He is best known and is most admired as a portrait-painter, but from time to time he ventured to trust his painting to every kind of subject-I know even a cattle-piece by Manet and his Christ watched over by angels in the tomb is one of his finest works. His Christ is merely a rather fat model sitting with his back against a wall, and two women with wings on either side of him.
Auguste Bonheur’s large cattle-piece, Inness’ “Autumn Oaks,” Corot’s “Ville d’Avray,” Knaus’ “Madonna,” Cabanel’s kneeling female figure, Koybet’s “Card Players,” “Jean d’Arc,” by Bastian Lepage; “The Baloon,” by Julian Dupré; Wylie’s “Death of the Vendean Chief,” Leutze’s “Crossing of the Delaware,” Meissonier’s “1807,” the three pictures of Turner, “Milton Dictating to His Daughters,” by Munkacsy, and Knaus’ “Bow at a Peasants’ Ball.” This list contains the most important works of these collections, and others might easily be added.
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