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Title: The art treasures of Washington : an account of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and of the National Gallery and Museum, with descriptions and criticisms of their contents; including, also, an account of the works of art in the Capitol, and in the Library of Congress, and of the most important statuary in the city
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Henderson, Helen Weston, 1874-
Subjects: Art museums Art Art
Publisher: Boston : L. C. Page & Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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accidental. A contemporary painter remarked with someenthusiasm of this picture, when it was first shown,that it was the tnosl thorough example of sawing1 that he had ever seen. Professional com-ment must be allowed its quaintness. What lie feltin the pictur maskable solving ^\ every problem according to the absolutely legitimate rules of the game Mere we have an interior, in diffused light, with the ordinary accidental furnishings andtwo figures: oik- of the mosA difficult technical problems of which it is possible to concei In its solution Tarbell resorts to no evasion of tlie real issue, lie paints his picture object by ob-ject, with the utmosl thoroughness; and lie keeps each detail in its place, nol by focussing upon one-p<»t and allowing everything else to recede from the visual point until it l^e> it-elf in a misty envel-opment, but by force of absolute relative colourvalue. If he appears to miss the human interest and vigour of the work of VerMeer. Ter Borch Of
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GIRL l\ BR< IWN (se« page 152)By J. J. Shannon Contemporary Bmertcaiw L65 Metsu, to whom il is the fashion to compare him,it is doubtless because our intimacy with the typesand subjects he presents blinds us to the virtuetheir equally \ eraci< tus o »lloquiali La Femme au Chien, of Mary Cassatt, be-longs to an early, immature period of this moslimportant American painter, bul has, at the sametime, some qualities of investigation, and a certainquaintness which distinguishes it from the work ofher later more professional period. Narci is an amusing mule by Sargeanl Kendall, depicting a child standing on a conch re-garding herself in a long mirror. The flesh is alittle hard, according to Kendalls formula, but thedrawing is fine and the composition original. A recent acquisition by Richard Miller entitled4 The Boudoir, is the direct antithesis of the styleof these more academic masters. It presents acharming, rather slight sketch of a lady at her toi-lette, which is refreshing in

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