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Title: Scribner's magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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his vast mural comj^ositions. Fran-cois Flameng is one of the few artiststo whom the scale of their works is amatter of complete indifference. He isequally at home in a wall-joainting anda tiny canvas or panel that he finisheswith the minuteness of a Meissonier.His abundant energy embraces eveiy-thing that concerns his art. For ex-ample, the wall-paintings at the Sor-bonne and elsewhere are surrounded byelaborate ornamental borders as a sortof framework, or, at least, decorativemargin. Most artists would intrustwork of that kind to a subordinate, butFlameng not only designs it, he paintsit all with his own hand. He does not confine himself, as todate, either to this century or any otherin particular, but chooses his subjectsindifferently in any time from the Mid-dle Ages downward to our own. Still,I think it is easy to see that his strong-est and most lively artistic sympathiesattach themselves to the life and cos-tume of the eighteenth centuiy, whichhe has studied perhaps as closely.
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Francois Flameng.(From a portrait by John S. Sargent.) though not so exclusively, as his won-derful contemporary M. Maurice Leloir.The picture reproduced in this num-ber, by the kind permission of theowner, Commandant Heriot, is one ofthe most characteristic of the artistsrepresentations of the eighteenth cen-tury. It gives a glimpse of one ofthe poorl) equipped but vigorousand energetic armies of revolutionaryFrance marching beyond the frontiersin the midst of cold and all kindsVol. XVI.—0 of privation, yet with unabated hopeand courage. In our times of ultra-perfection in everything that belongsto military organization we are as re-mote as we can be from those dayswhen soldiers were little better, as tooutward appearance, than mendicants,yet marched to death or victory with adauntless gayety and a firm contidencein the triumph of the modern ideawhich they believed themselves commis-sioned to impose upon the world. All 65 66 THE FREXCH AV HOLLAXD this is so remote from present Fren

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