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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r as theresemblance goes. This sturdy yeoman, whom we suppose we must allow young (after amediaeval fashion) has found the merchant sitting with his bountifully blooming daughter inhis counting-room and takes the opportunity to exchange glances -nath her, while her fathercarefully counts out the money he has brought in settlement of some transaction. The rose,too, which he had slipped into the mouth of the bag of money as he handed it to her onentering, she acknowledges with a speaking look that seems to promise him prosi^erity in hissuit. As in Matsys pictures, the table is strewn with things in the painting of which themodern artist has attempted no rivalry with the work of the older master. They are heresimply as necessary facts, to have their dues, but to be subordinated to the main piirpose ofthe composition, whereas, -with a Matsys, Van Eyck, and even Holbein, these details seemoften to have been i^ainted for their own sake, for the mere pleasure of wrestling with diffi-culties.
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ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 247 XV. T N the somewhat wearisome waste of modern Grerman art, the name of Daniel Nicolaus*- Chodowiecki stands out as a cheerful luminary. Pronounce Kodov-yetski, saysThomas Carlyle, and endeavor to make some acquaintan(;e with the Prussian Hogarthwho has real worth and originality. He was an artist of a marked personality, whose work,if it had but little influence on the art of his own time, and if, for us, it form merely a part ofthe baggage of curiosity bequeathed by his age to ours, must yet always have an interest forthe student of manners in his part of Germany in the last quarter of the Eighteenth Century.Chodowiecki was born at Dantzig in 1726. This city, although it had been for a long timeone of the most important places in that part of the dominions of Prussia which was ruled bythe Order of Teutonic Knights, had joined the league of the towns that threw ofP the yoke ofthe Order, and placed herself under the protection of Poland, while still ma

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