Identifier: artartistsofourt04cook (find matches)
Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 223 what we may see in a hundred places in Protestant Germany and Holland. Here-and-therein Holland—the sight is common enough—we have seen the short rod of the sexton in ourpicture with its bag for collecting the offering, amusingly replaced, among that half-aquaticfishing-population, by a prodigiously long fishing-rod with a similar bag at the end, which waskept bobbing over the heads of the people; the persistent angler reaching even the most shyand sheltered denizen of the pews, and waiting with the patience of a born fisherman until thetricky penny shall let itself be taken. Here, in the Swabian church, the sexton has hisvictims at short range; he has pocketed his dues from all but one of them, and he, if we mayjudge by the action of his head, is looking in his wallet for the needed penny. Yautier has,certainly, not flattered his sitters; they are a hard-featured and not very intelligent set, andit is plain that the young boy in the foreground is

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