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Title: Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910
Subjects: Progress Inventions
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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rs caring for them, the painter meanwhilestarving in neglect. In 1824 two of his pictures were shown in Paris, and were then instantlyTinderstood and appreciated. They created a profound impression and, ashas been justly said, inaugurated the second revolution of the century in therealm of art. By this revolution the artists were driven out of their studiosand out of the city, to study nature in the spirit of humble sincerity shownby John Constable. Among the young students who went forth to encounterpoverty, hardship, and the severest toil were the men of 1830, the foundersof the Barbizon school of painting. Millet, liousseau, Diaz, Corot, Troyon,Daubigny, and Dupre left Paris and the ways that then led to success, andsacrificed themselves to what they saw to be the truth in art. They carriedthe study of out-door nature further than ever before; created the standardof modern landscape art, and attained immortal fame, though not until theirleader and prototype had perished in poverty.
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WHISPERS F LOVE. (BOUGUEB.EAU.) 592 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIX CENTURY Jean Francois Millet (1815-1875) has been called the greatest painter ofthe nineteenth century, and his masterpiece, The Angfelus, is regarded by many as second only to the Sisfine Madonna of Raphael in the brief Cata-logue of the worlds artistic treasures. .He lived the life of a- poor peasantin the rural village of Barbizon, attracting around him, late in lite, tin ablestof the men of L830, and producing there those works which have placedhis name first on the annals of our time: The Sower, Waiting, Sheep-shearers, Woman Carding, The Gleaners, Shepherdess and Flock.and the few others that constitute the tale of his exceedingly careful andlong-considered compositions. Theodore Koiisseau (1812-1867) was declared, by Edmond About, to hethe Moses who led the landscape painters of France out. of the Egyptianbondage of academic convention into the promised land of liberty, whererivers ran water, where tree

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