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"And you know Bouguereau?" "Yes, and Henner, and Constant and Laurens, and Puvis de Chavannes and Dagnan and Courtois, and and all the rest of them!" "And yet you say you are not an artist." "Pardon," she said gravely, "did I say I was not?" "Won't you tell me?" he hesitated.
Still more recent are Bastien-Lepage, Chavannes, Breton, Bouguereau, Dagnan-Bouveret, Lhermitte, Jean-Paul Laurens, and Dupre. About the year 1825 an American school of landscape-painters was founded by Thomas Cole, many of whose pictures were allegorical. Durand is one of those who excelled in landscape painting. MUSIC. In music, Germany in the nineteenth century held the palm.
But, just as we were on the point of starting, the groom with the cockade, whom we had seen following Colonel Jervis, trotted up, and, touching his hat, asked, "I beg your pardon, gentlemen, but is any one of you the Count de Chavannes?" "I am," replied the Count; "what do you want with me, sir?" "From Colonel Jervis, sir," replied the man, handing him a visiting card.
But to reply in your own phraseology that is no case in point; for granting that Auguste's sister is nice, which I will not be so modest as to gainsay, Monsieur de Chavannes is not the least in love with her." "Perhaps, not." "Certainly, not." "Well, be it so? What else do you know about him?" "Nothing, Judge Selwyn." "Nothing of his character, his principles, his morals, or his habits?"
"I told you once before, Monsieur Gironac," I replied, "that your Count de Chavannes does not care a straw how I treat him, or with what air. And if he did, I do not.
It is more truthful but not less impersonal than a photograph. Degas is the only other painter usually classed with the impressionists, of whom this may not be said. But Degas is hardly an impressionist at all. He is one of the most personal painters, if not the most personal painter, of the day. He is as original as Puvis de Chavannes.
Next came the symphonic poem, "Irlande," the "Vision de Sainte Therese," for voice and orchestra, the symphonic ode, "Pro Patria Ludus," inspired by a painting of Puvis de Chavannes, and the great "Ode Triomphale," given at the Exposition in honour of the centenary of 1789.
Auguste, on his return, was in amazing spirits, and did nothing all dinner-time, but expatiate upon the companionable and amiable qualities of de Chavannes, whom he already liked, he said, more than any person he had ever seen for so short a time so clever, so high-spirited, so gallant. Everything, in a word, that a man could desire for a friend, or a lady for a lover.
"I will not affect to misunderstand you, Judge, though, upon my word, you are entirely mistaken in your conjecture." "Upon your word! entirely mistaken! I think, not I am sure, not." "You are, indeed. I have not seen him above four times, nor spoken fifty words to him." "Never mind, never mind who is he?" "An acquaintance of Monsieur Gironac's, Monsieur le Comte de Chavannes.
"... Except that ye become as little children " that is the beginning of significant workmanship, as it is the essential of faith in religion. The great workmen have all put away the illusions of the world, or most of them, and all have told the same story look to Rodin, Puvis de Chavannes, Balzac, Tolstoi, only to mention a little group of the nearer names.
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