Identifier: americanartamer01mont (find matches)
Title: American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Montgomery, Walter
Subjects: Art Artists Art
Publisher: Boston, E.W. Walker & co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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ion faithfully than by reproducing ascene with accuracy, then Corot should be awarded the meed, for his pictures seem to portrayonly fleeting thoughts and vague impressions. His great fault is his indistinctness; his pictureslack form, and produce their effects by misty indecision. He has, however, a delicate grace ofsentiment, and a tender, almost timid method of rendering his subject, that show him to be apoetical dreamer, in which respect he resembles Turner. Mr. Gibson has two of his landscapes,and one of them, At Break of Day, a suggestion of which is given herewith, we admire morethan any other of the many pictures by Corot which we have seen. It is a very feeling bit ofnature, when the cool gray of the morning is so delicious. Daubigny is another idealist of theCorot stamp, full of taste and pathos, whose pictures are toned to such a harmonious key thatthey almost become monotonous. The landscape by him in Mr. Gibsons collection is a goodspecimen of his manner. AMERICAN ART U§
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At Break of Day. — By Corot.Pen-and-Ink Sketch by James D. Smillie. — From a Photograph. Another artist who, like Corot, stands midway between passionate admiration and violentcondemnation, is Jean Frangois Millet. It is claimed that he is an artist who aims in hispictures at an exact imitation of Nature. We should consider him rather the reverse; that heis a rustic poet, who uses Nature with a license, never forgetting her, but imbuing her withfeeling when she would be cold and irresponsive. The Shepherd is a picture of emotion, of senti-ment; the untold tells so much, that one returns to this painting, discovering some new expres-sion each time. And yet it is nothing but a shepherd overtaken by night, followed by his flockand his faithful dog. The atmospheric effect here is untranslatable into words. It is chilly; thesheep are huddled together, and the shepherd has his long cloak closely gathered around him.Your sympathy is won for the toiler whose labor is so unremitting, whose

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