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Updated: May 15, 2025
Turner stamped his ownership on sunset skies, silver dawns, illuminations, fetes, and once in a while on a sweep down the canal past the Salute, its dome a huge incandescent pearl. Ziem tied up to the long wall and water steps of the Public Garden, aflame with sails of red and gold: he is still there was the last I heard of him, octogenarian as he is.
On the other is the long brick wall of the garden soggy, begrimed, streaked with moss and lichen in bands of black-green and yellow ochre, over which mass and sway the great sycamores that Ziem loved, their lower branches interwoven with cinnobar cedars gleaming in spots where the prying sun drips gold.
Everything else is faded, weather-worn, and old, everything filled with sensuous beauty sky, earth, lagoon, garden wall, murmuring ripples the same wonderful Venice that thrills its lovers the world over. And the old painters are still here Walter Brown, Bunce, Bompard, Faulkner, and the rest successors of Ziem and Rico men who have loved her all their lives.
I never pay for anything immediately it would injure my credit. Sit down and let me offer you a cigar my governor imports 'em and so you can be assured they are good. By the way what's become of that Ziem I saw in your window last week? The Metropolitan ought to have that picture."
The one-eyed dealer Jack was right, he had but one eye at once agreed with Jack as to the proper ultimate destination of the Ziem, and under the influence of the cigar which Jack had insisted on lighting for him, assisted by Jack's casual mention of his father a name that was known to be good for half a million and encouraged greatly encouraged indeed by an aside from Sam that the painter had already been offered more than he paid for it by a man worth millions under all these influences, assistances, and encouragements, I say, the one-eyed dealer so modified his demands that an additional twenty-four hours was granted Jack in which to settle his account, the Monet to remain in his possession.
And then, for less material reasons, His Serene Highness might be influenced by the fact that Corot had loved this ring of land which clasped the Etang de Berre Ziem, too, and other artists whose opinion could not be despised.
Well, a lot of us fellows used to dine there Whistler, Rico, Old Ziem, Roscoff, Fildes, Blaas, and the rest of the gang. We were an enthusiastic lot of Bohemians, each one with an opinion of his own about any subject he happened to be interested in, and ready to back it up if it took all night.
These arguments silenced if they didn't convince Lady Turnour, though she had probably never heard of Ziem, or even Corot, and we two in front were able to admire the charming scene in peace.
In him was incarnate all that we can conceive as bohemian, with a training that gave him the high-bred manner of a seigneur. He was a romantic, like his friend Félix Ziem Ziem, Marcellin, Deboutin, and Monticelli represented a caste that no longer exists; bohemians, yes, but gentlemen, refined and fastidious.
And now I must speak at some length of a painter who, together with the luminous and sparkling landscapist Félix Ziem, was the most direct initiator of Impressionist technique. Monticelli is one of those singular men of genius who are not connected with any school, and whose work is an inexhaustible source of applications.
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