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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
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the neck of the solitary passenger, and the ver-milion crown of the drivers hat. The horses, which are magnificently modelled, plunge andtear to keep warm, and their full action will carry them, soon, out of sight. Belonging to thesame class of subjects is Schreyers Arabs Retreat, a fine specimen of this celebrated artistswork, full of his mannerisms, which are marked, but not objectionable. Fromentins Halt inthe Desert is in curious contrast with the Schreyer, showing how dissimilarly two artists willtreat a subject of a similar character. Fromentins Arab chargers are sleek, well-bred coursers,while Schreyers steeds are of the powerful, heavier Wallachian race. In Fromentins paintingthere is a noble dignity seldom seen in pictures, and this quality is very manifest in the onewhich Mr. Gibson possesses. There is one picture which forms the chef-dceuvre of the collection, and stands entirely alone,no matter from what stand-point we view it. We refer to Le Triomphe dune Femme Equivoque,
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H D G? ,d U p. > fro o P o a o. w M o ,5; P3 ^ S l_>Eh H£ o p w 0 Eh o !>h pq t-,0 N *-> W CD M Ph m S MPi o T3 1—1 Pi Pn <J) E-i Pi H J ii4 AMERICAN ART by Thomas Couture. We have spoken of this picture and its author on a previous occasion, —soon after the artists death, — and what we say now can be little else than a summarized repe-tition of what we said then. We look upon Couture as the great master of his time, and weclaim that his influence will be felt and recognized, when others — names perchance at presentmore famous — are forgotten. Couture was an idealist in the highest, truest, best sense of theword, for he was also a moralist. What he lacked most was a delicate, sensitive refinement.All of his pictures teach some lesson, even though they represent but a single head, such asthe Roman Youth, a superb and thoughtful study, also in Mr. Gibsons possession. Lc Triomphe duuc Femme Equivoque is a grand allegorical composition,

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