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The broad and richly-coloured plains of "la belle France" were before me and it is "la belle France," however inferior to parts of England in rural beauty the large tracts of waving yellow corn, undulating like a sea in the morning breeze the interminable reaches of forest, upon which the shadows played and flitted, deepening the effect and mellowing the mass, as we see them in Ruysdael's pictures while now and then some tall-gabled, antiquated chateau, with its mutilated terrace and dowager-like air of bye-gone grandeur, would peep forth at the end of some long avenue of lime trees, all having their own features of beauty and a beauty with which every object around harmonizes well.
In the Dresden Gallery there is 'A Jewish Cemetery, 'full of melancholy. Three of Ruysdael's fine waterfalls are in the National Gallery. Of two very grand storms which he painted one is in the Louvre, the other in the collection of the Marquis of Lansdowne at Bowood. There are many of Ruysdael's pictures in England.
The broad and richly-coloured plains of "la belle France" were before me and it is "la belle France," however inferior to parts of England in rural beauty the large tracts of waving yellow corn, undulating like a sea in the morning breeze the interminable reaches of forest, upon which the shadows played and flitted, deepening the effect and mellowing the mass, as we see them in Ruysdael's pictures while now and then some tall-gabled, antiquated chateau, with its mutilated terrace and dowager-like air of bye-gone grandeur, would peep forth at the end of some long avenue of lime trees, all having their own features of beauty and a beauty with which every object around harmonizes well.
Strange to say, the influence is not that of Michelangelo, but, unless the writer is greatly deceived, that of Donatello, whose noble ascetic type of the Precursor is here modernised, and in the process deprived of some of its austerity. The glorious mountain landscape, with its brawling stream, fresher and truer than any torrent of Ruysdael's, is all Titian. It makes the striking figure of St.
Cross paid much delighted attention, first grew nobly wild and impressive when we skirted the Little Falls as grand and gloomy in its effect of towering jagged cliffs and foaming cataracts as one of Jacob Ruysdael's pictures and then softened into a dream of beauty as it spread out before us the smiling, embowered expanses of the German Flatts.
They faithfully depicted their own flat country as they saw it, and added neither hills nor mountains. But they varied the lighting to express their own moods. Ruysdael's sombre tone befits the man who struggled with poverty all his life, and died in a hospital penniless. Cuyp is always sunny. In his pictures, cattle browse at their ease, and shepherds lounge contented on the grass.
"It is Ruysdael's 'Churchyard, and, from this distance, seems a remarkably fine copy of that sombre, desolate, ghoul-haunted picture." "Thank you. That is the only piece of work of which I feel really proud. Some day, when the light is pure and strong, come in and examine it. Now there is a greenish tinge over all things in the room thrown by sea-shimmer through the clustering leaves.
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