Artists Past and Present; Random Studies

In _La Tricoteuse_ the composition of colors is much the same--a creamy white dress with gray shadows, reddish yellow hair, and a bit of blue knitting with the addition of a sha...

Thus we see that it cannot truly be said of him and his followers that the idea is of first importance to them. It is their material that is of first importance, otherwise they...

Among the compositions in which many figures in a complicated environment tax the artist's technical skill to the utmost, are several representations of the bean feast, that sat...

In her etchings and drawings Miss Cassatt early arrived at freedom of handling. The more responsive medium gave her an opportunity to produce delightful studies of domestic life...

The art gallery of Cassel is well known to connoisseurs as containing a group of Rembrandts of the first order. The earliest example is a small painting of a boy's head supposed...

In spite of the assiduous study of Dutch and Italian masters, Fantin's work is characteristically French in both its fantasy and its realism. Not only the grace of the forms and...

His patines are by no means all green; some of them are almost golden in their vitality of color--the "_patine médaillé_," as in _The Walking Deer_, which is a superb example; s...

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Callot's return to Nancy marked the close of the second period of his art, the period in which he painted battles with ten thousand episodes revealed in one plate, and so accura...