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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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studio of Roqueplan. Since that time he has remained inParis, painting and teaching. His studio is one of the most frequented, and is particularly■affected by American women who are in Paris for the purpose of studying art. As was donein the case of the late William M. Hunt by one of his pupils, one of the ladies in Mr.Stevenss class has noted down the remarks that have fallen from his lips from time to time—-^criticisms, opinions, sentiments, objections, appreciations—and these, with the approval ofthe artist himself, have been collected in a small book to which he has affixed his name, andhas dedicated it to the memory of Corot, the most modern of the painters of the nineteenthcentury. AVhile no one will dispute the truth of this characterization, we might wonderat such admiration, expressed by so confirmed a lover of artificial and conventional life ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 327 as Stevens, for so simple-hearted and idyllic a poet-painter as Corot, did we not recognize the
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doubtful weather.. FROM THE PICTURE BY ALFRED STEVENS fact that in his own field Stevens has shown the same love of truth and the same dependenceupon nature. He is often spoken of as if, like Baugniet, he were a mere faithful recorder of 328 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. the fashions in dress prevailing in his time, but, to our thinking, this is a superticial estimate

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