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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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born at Cluny in Burgundy, April 4, 1758,the son of a poor mason who, dying soonafter the boys birth, left him to the careof the monks of the Abbey of Cluny. Thepictures decorating the monastery visiblyaffecting the youth, the Bishop of Maconplaced him under the tuition of one Des-voges, who directed the school of paintingat Dijon. Here his progress was rapid, butat nineteen the too susceptible youth mar- tardy awakening of conscience, would havegone to Rome in his place. The judgment rectified, Prudhon went toRome, where he stayed seven years, study-ing Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, and aboveall Correggio, whose influence is manifestin his work, and returned to Paris in 1789.Unknown,and timid by nature, he attractedlittle attention, and for some years gainedhis living by designing letter-heads, visit-ing cards, which were then of an ornatedescription, and the many trifles whichconstitute a present resource to the unsuc-cessful painter even to-day. It was not until 1796 that some of the
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THE ASSUMPTION OF THE VIRGIN. FROM A PAINTING BY PRUDhON. This picture was ordered by the Emperor Napoleon for the chapel of the Tuilcrics, It was exhibited in the Salon of 1S19,and, after the Revolution of 1848, was removed from the Tuileries to the Louvre, where it has since remained. 152 A CENTURY OF PAINTING.

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