Barbizon Days: Millet-Corot-Rousseau-Barye (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Charles Sprague Smith

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331802903 ISBN 13 : 9781331802907

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from Barbizon Days: Millet-Corot-Rousseau-Barye

A decade of years ago, we pitched our summer tent at Bourron, a little hamlet on the borders of the Forest of Fontainebleau; or rather we occupied another''s tent, for our dwelling was a grey stone cottage similar to that of the peasants - our neighbors and friends. The Forest itself was only a few rods distant and my study, the summer through, was in the open air and under the boughs of one of its noble trees.

Sitting at my neighbors'' board, when their day''s work was done, roaming the wood in all directions, searching out especially the haunts of the artists, the months glided away all too fast. There were not hours enough in which to write of all the artists I would have selected as themes.

These sketches are not art criticism, they are but the chronicle of that summer. If they make clearer the relation, between na ture and art, suggest that art''s alphabet is everywhere awaiting only the seeing eye, or if I have'' been able to give again in part the inspiration obtained from that summer''s con verse with the strong, this record of Barbizon Days will have accomplished its purpose.

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Bourron, a little hamlet on the borders of the Forest ofF ontainebleau; or rather we occupied anothers tent, for our dwelling was a grey stone cottage similar to that of the peasants our neighbors and friends. The Forest itself was only a few rods distant and my study, the summer through, was in the open air and under the boughs of one of its noble trees. Sitting at my neighbors board, when their days work was done, roaming the wood in all directions, searching out especially the haunts of the artists, the months glided away all too fast. There were not hours enough in which to write of all the artists I would have selected as themes. These sketches are not art criticism, they are but the chronicle of that summer. If they make clearer the relation between nature and art, suggest that arts alphabet is everywhere awaiting only the seeing eye, or if I have been able to give again in part the inspiration obtained from that summers converse with the strong, this record of Barbizon Days will have accomplished its purpose.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331802903
• ISBN 13: 9781331802907
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 408
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