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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
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he door is fairly opened he will push himselfthrough without the least thought of respect for his elders. His starting action is veryprettily given. No doubt our readers will find Geblers One of the Seven Sleepers, a more entertainingsubject than any of these later pictures. Friedrich Otto Gebler, bom at Dresden in 1838,went early to Munich, where he studied under Piloty. He paints animal-pictures almost ex- 3IO ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. cliisively, but his Ininior is not always so genuine as we find it liere, where it grows out of anatural, every-day situation. The morning light is streaming through the cracks and cran-nies of this old barn where the sheep are folded, and they are anxious to get out for a taste offi-esh air and the grass of the pasture. But Peter, the farm-hand, is locked up tighter inslumber than they are in the barns, and no ray of the morning sun has peeped as yet throughthe chinks in his eye-lids. A swallow has lighted on his hat—perched for the night on the
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ONE OF THE SEVEN SLEEPERS FROM THE PICTURE BY OTTO GEBLER. top of his sheep-hook, and cheeps and twitters to the other swallows that circle round thebarn or cling to the wall, but Peter does not hear the sound. One leg is thrown over the dog,his bed-fellow and guardian, but though the dog is wide awake and has his faithful eye onthe sheep, he does not stir for fear of waking his master. In the heat of the summer nightthe boy has tossed the clothes about and kicked off the. feather bed, but the cool morning airthat blows over his bare legs has no power to disturb him, while, if he hears the bleating ofthe sheep, he probably hears it in a dream of noonday in the pasture, with his flock about ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 311 Mm calling one another from side to side of the field. Perhaps the artist meant to indicateby the pictures pinned to the wall and the sketches of the ram, the dog and Peter himself,sheep-hook in hand, that this is an artist in the bud lying in bed when work is to be d

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