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But to him natural facts were but so much material, to be treated as he pleased for the carrying out of his purpose. He was a colorist and a chiaroscurist; and he had a great deal more interest in light and in landscape than most of the painters of his time.
Spain conquered him, and Velasquez, the colorist of so peculiar a fancy that, after a visit to the Museum of the Prado, one carries away the idea that one has just seen the only painting worthy of the name.
Michael Angelo would be nothing to him." "True," cried they all, with one voice; "the Cholera is a bad colorist, but a good draughtsman." "Moreover, gentlemen," added Ninny Moulin, with comic gravity, "this plague brings with it a providential lesson, as the great Bossuet would have said." "The lesson! the lesson!"
An "eye for color" never yet made any man a colorist. Perhaps there can be no severer test of this faculty of perception than the copying of excellent pictures. The ability to perceive Nature, when translated into art, is, however, a possession which this painter shares with many.
But Gautier is a colorist, an artist with words, and he is at his best when he works without much outline, celebrating draperies, bouquets and laces, to all of which he can give a meaning quite other than the milliner's, as where he asserts that the plaits of a rose-colored dress are "the lips of my unappeased desires," or describes March as a barber, powdering the wigs of the blossoming almond trees, and a valet, lacing up the rosebuds in their corsets of green velvet.
He is the Titian of word-painting, and as such will live like that immortal colorist.
Turner, a colorist, reveled in color like a Bacchanal; Rousseau, a tonalist, felt it like a vestal; but both had the sense of color in the subtlest refinement.
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