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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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east, would have brought consolationto almost any one else save this exacting spirit, namely, that his pictures won a second-class medal, an advance upon the first year, and that the governmentpurchased the Anacreon lor one ol its best collections is only briefly stated in aparenthesis ! It is true that the astonishing successof his debut was not repeated,but there is a homely old saying that mighl apply here lightning rarely strikestwice m the same place. Still we search in vain for so unsparing and severe ajudgment as this merciless critic inflicts upon himself. Timbal writes; Theadmirers ot yesterday were a little anxious; they should have quickly reassuredthemselves ; ii is not given to every one to commit these faults ol exaggerationand arrangemenl through hatred oi the commonplace, and not alone by itsstt ingenessdid the Anacreon stand out in relief from its neighboring cam Doubtless the bod\ and limbs ol I he lliitc-playcr were too rigidly modeled; THE MUEZZIN i AT NIC I IT1882
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LIFE AND WORKS OF JEAN LEON GERdMl 57 doubtless the poet, with his immense lyre, formed a somewhat strange silhouetteupon the sky, and the little god Bacchus staggered more through the fault of theportraitisl than from the effects ot intemperance, Bu1 what a charm, remindingone of Luini, in the figure of Amour,a.nd in the least details! what ingeniousresearch and what originality of execution The eye wanders delightedly overthis antique landscape, never seen in the engravings of Poussin, but taken fromreal Natures greal garden—with its somber rocks spotted with lichens, its greensward swepl by the chill wind from the sea. and its trees, with their delicatebranches and tine foliage colored a pale gold by the vanishing sun. trembling inthe breeze. And speaking of the religious picture, Gautier says: Gerflme,although a pagan of Pompeii, also fully understands Christian art. HisSt./ohnEmbracing /he Child Jesus on the Knees 0/ /he Virgin might have been signedby Overbed,-, only Overbeck

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