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The party was completed by John Myner, the Englishman; by the brothers Stennis, Stennis-aine and Stennis-frere, as they used to figure on their accounts at Barbizon a pair of hare-brained Scots; and by the inevitable Jim, as white as a sheet and bedewed with the sweat of anxiety. I suppose I was little better myself when I unveiled the Genius of Muskegon.
I remember his saying that, on his visits from Barbizon to the capital, he was happy on his arrival at the station, but when he arrived at the column of the Bastille, a few squares within the city, the mal du pays took him by the throat. At first he spent all his time in the Louvre, which revealed to him what the little provincial museum of Cherbourg had but faintly suggested.
At the same time, he must be within easy reach of Paris; for though he had almost made up his mind not to exhibit any more at the Salon people didn't care to see his reapers or his fishermen he must still manage to keep himself within call of possible purchasers; and for this purpose he selected the little village of Barbizon, on the edge of the forest of Fontainebleau.
He lived at Barbizon, on the border of the forest of Fontainebleau; and, basing his work on the most uncompromising study of nature, his pictures bore an impress of simple truth, which to our latter-day vision seems so obvious and easily understood that nothing could show more clearly the depth of error into which his opponents had fallen than the systematic rejection of his work for so many years.
The natives, who are decidedly the most attractive inhabitants of this planet, crowded round us in the pew, and fawned upon and patted us; and here it was I put my questions, and Dodd answered me. I first carried him back to the night in Barbizon when Carthew told his story, and asked him what was done about Bellairs.
Not even the brush of a Barbizon master could tell the story of Big Hill, three miles up the river from Main Street bridge, gleaming in the hues that Jack Frost mixed, beneath the blue-gold dome of a cloudless sky for it could not paint the chatter of the squirrel, or the glint of the bursting bittersweet berry, or the call of the crow, or the crisp of the air, or the joy of life that only boyhood knows!
But they're all hopelessly muddled; and when they meet each other they don't know where to look, like the Augurs." Dinner was no sooner at an end than he carried me across the road to Masson's old studio. It was strangely changed. Such a room in Barbizon astonished the beholder, like the glories of the cave of Monte Cristo. "Now," said he, "we are quiet.
Mildred was not the common Barbizon art student whose one idea is to become the mistress of a painter so that she may learn to paint. She had encouraged him, but she had kept her little dignity. Moreover, he did not feel sure of her. So the minutes went by in awkward expectancy, and Morton had not kissed her before the carriage arrived.
Returning to Paris with his wife, he remained there until 1849, when he went to Barbizon "for a time," which was prolonged to twenty-seven years. In all the years preceding his final return to the country, Millet was apparently undecided as to the definite character of his work.
English poetic feeling, combined with as much of French technique as it could assimilate there was the line of progress. Not the technique of these clever madmen Manet, Degas, Monet, and the rest with the mean view of life of some, and the hideous surface of others. No! but the Barbizon men and Mother Nature, first and foremost!
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