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Identifier: higherlifeinarts1908lafa (find matches)
Title: The higher life in art; a series of lectures on the Barbizon school of France, inaugurating the Scammon course at the Art Institute of Chicago
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: La Farge, John, 1835-1910
Subjects: Barbizon school Landscape painting, French Landscape painting, French Landscape painters
Publisher: New York : The McClure Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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in the same waythat we see in stocks. One of the great firms boughtRousseaus to sell low and put them in the market belowthe price at which they had obtained them so as tomake an opposition to the other dealers who handled,naturally, the Rousseaus for a rise. Opposition to Rous-seau took even the form of his pictures as I say, beingbought at higher prices. These fluctuations in his meansinvolved Rousseau in financial difficulties for which histemperament was of course not fitted. His was the tem-perament of a dreamer, not at all the man described bysome of his political friends as a reformer, as a personengaged in general ideas; no, he was purely and ab-solutely a painter, a dreamer, a man in love with certainthings he had seen. And his living in solitude, and in astate of opposition and intellectual struggle brought onan irregularity of habit of work, which is singular, per-haps, in the career of one of the most strenuous andsincere of artists at any time. He occasionally painted 136
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