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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
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known as a contributor to the Magazin Pittoresque, that excellent journal which inthe long series of its issues has now arrived at an almost encyclopajdic character, and he hasalso made many designs for Le Monde Illustree. He also made the illustrations for awork by Theophile Gautier, La Nature chez elle; Nature at Home, and in conjunctionwith Veyrassat, made etchings for Hamertons Chapters on Animals. He has lived formany years at Barbizon, bat his pictures do not belong to the school, so-called, that weassociate with that village. Bodmer, like Calame, is a painter rather for naturalists, or forlovers of nature directly reported, than for those who care for her most when poetically trans-lated. Hamertons praise of him is significant: He is an artist of consummate accomplish- ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 283 ment in liis own way, and of immense range. There is hardly a bird or quadruped of West-ern Europe that he has not drawn, and drawn, too, with a closeness of observation satisfac-
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IN BAS-BREAU. FROM THE PICTURE BY KARL BODMER. tory alike to the artist and naturalist. The bird or the beast is always the central subjectwith Karl Bodmer, but he generally surrounds them with a graceful landscape full of intri- 284 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. cate and mysterious suggestions, with here and there some plant in clearer definition, drawnwith perfect fidelity and care. This praise of Mr. Hamertons does not carry us far. All that it amounts to is, that KarlBodmer is to be counted an excellent and learned animal-painter, and that he knows how togive his models a tasteful and appropriate setting of landscape. And the very pleasing ex-ample that we copy proves Mr. Hamerton right in this particular point, as all may see. Thisgroup of a stag with does and fawns is certainly painted with great delicacy and sentiment—the alertness, the grace, the lightness of foot of these handsome creatures could not be bettergiven, though others in plenty have done it as well. But, after al

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