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Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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econd reputation which made his older successes forgotten. The rich andfashionable society into which he had been introduced by the portraits he had made, had sofamiliarized him with its manners, dress, and surroundings that he naturally looked for thesubjects of his pictures in the same world of luxury, idleness, and ease. Accordingly we havefrom his facile hand a succession of little scenes, representing all the phases of hig-lif fromthe cradle to the grave: The Visit to the new-born Child and its Mot^her, The God-mothers ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 325 Visit, The Eldest Daughter, The Billet-doux, The Confidante, Improving the Eyelids.The Brides Toilet, The Visit to the Widow, etc., etc. In Blindraans Buff we lookupon one of the devices of this elegant society for making the tedious hours believe theythink not of them. Here, as in all Baugniets pictures, we find him faithfully painting hisown-time, and with him, as with Willems and Stevens, we are conscious that the characteristics
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BLIND-MANS-BUFF. FROM THE PAINTING BY CHARLES BAUGNIET. of his personages are distinctly Belgian, and not Parisian, although he has lived so long inParis that his own country knows very little about him. He loved to paint the houses ofthe rich bourgeois of his time, with their furniture of all x:)eriods and valued chiefly for itscostliness. His women are always dressed in the richest materials and in the extreme of thefashion. Baugniets pictures will j)robably have, in fifty years or so, a revival of favor asaccurate and painstaking pictures of a particular period. There is, however, in this picture III 326 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. no little skill displayed, both in the composition and in facial expression and gesture. Leav-ing out of sight the frivolity of such an amusement for grown women, and looking merely atthe way in which they are frivolling, the work is certainly to be praised. Even under theadverse circumstances of such surroundings, differences of character have been dev

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