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Title: McClure's magazine
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: McClure, S. S. (Samuel Sidney), 1857-1949
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Publisher: New York : S.S. McClure
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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d state—he who troubled all Europe through the eyes of an artist which char-in the early years of the century being acterizes the work of Eugene Delacroix,there at the head of his army; and in 1796, The force of David, however, was tooat Genoa, Gros attracted the attention of great for Gros; at fifty years of age we findMadame Bonaparte. It was she who pro- him demanding counsel of the master, whoposed that Gros should paint Napoleon; sternly bids him leave his futile subjects, MADAME LEBRUN AND HER DAUGHTER. FROM A PAINTING BY MADAME LEBRUN HERSELF. This picture, painted for a private patron, passed, at the period ofthe French Revolution, into the possession of the French nation, and isnow in the Louvre. There is in the Louvre also another by MadameLebrun, representing herself and her daughter, one which the artist be-queathed to the Louvre at her death, in 1842. Of the two, while both arecharming, the one here printed represents the painter at her best. i5» A CENTURY OF PAINTING.
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FRANCIS I., KING OF FRANCE, AND CHARLES V., EMPEROR OF THE HOLY ROMAN EM-PIRE, VISITING THE TOMBS OF THE FRENCH KINGS AT ST. DENIS. FROM APAINTING BY BARON GROS, IN THE LOUVRE. Between 1520 and 1545 all Europe was kept in distress and turmoil by a quarrelbetween Francis I. and Charles V., the chief subject of contention being the duchyof Milan, which Charles held and Francis claimed. Four separate wars were wagedby Francis against Charles, all of them unsuccessful. But their majesties had inter-vals of outward friendship, and in one of these Francis invited Charles, then settingout from Spain for the Low Countries, to pass through France and visit him. Thevisit was duly paid, was one of great state and ceremony, and from it is derived theincident portrayed in the above picture. Francis is the figure in the centre ; Charles^suited in black, standing at his right. First to the Tombs of theKings in the Cathedralof St. Denis, was paintedin 1812. The revolt which wasalready making itself f

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