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Title: Gérôme : the life and works of Jean Léon Gérôme
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Hering, Fanny Field
Subjects: Gérôme, Jean Léon, 1824-1904
Publisher: New York : Published by Cassell Publishing Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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this illuminator of Greek vases, has achieved at the tirstessay the absolute perfection oi the Dutch masters. Still another note in this far-reaching but harmonious chord, that, transpointo different keys, vibrates with new power and richness. Now it passes intothe minor, and reveals to us the pale, inspired features oi a great representativeol another phase oi Art. •The portrait oi Rachel (says Gautier ; is at the same time a portrait and apersonification. Tragedy has blended itself with the tragedienne, the Muse withtress; draped in red and orange, she stands erect under a severe Doricportico. Somber passions, fatalities, and tragic furies contract her pale counte-nance. Yes, if is Rachel sinister, savage, and violent. De Tanouarn also writes ; This portrait has not only the merit ol great individual resemblance.it isthe austere and noble image of Tragedy itself. And truly, Rachel was traged)incarnate, passing through living realities of the epoch like a pale .mil majesticphantom.
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LIFE AND WORKS Ol f/ IX //.OX GiROMI 95 This impressive canvas hangs in the historic collection oi the TheatreFrancais, and never fails to arrest the eye by its weird and melancholj grandeur. And now come three scenes from the antique, the firsl ol which, under thetitle Two Augurs cannot Regard each Other without Laughing, suggests with consummate skill the case with which p ■ credulous human nature lias been imposed on from time immemorial Behind the scenes, these two accomplishedhypocrites indulge to the full their contemptuous merriment, while the awe-stricken populace without, silently pondering the utterances of the Oracle, obediently submits reason and will to these clever impostors, who, with only a changeof garb and ritual, still number their followers by the thousands in our so-calledenlightened age The Two Augurs, says Scott, in his Gems ol French An, entitlesGerdme to the highest place as satirist as well as painter. The most hrilliant epoch in Greek histon furnishes the

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