Telegram-herald., 1889-08-20
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FeaFs ago IL Holland We had iefr ths
Ltrie town 81 u4rdr=ent add z-rs van
1e4lls over -a8 lesel country rc4ds
wherever e-s fancy le-l Is TIE sun
- ae asa going down and . gay t~l-
Lgn- aas creeping over the landscape
Asay ia The distance ~as the splrs Of
village church Two ola peasants. =
nan aat sgllan. were digging ID q
n7ll a. che read SIDE Whea tie cor.
Pe4-s q tae evening bell came 70 Us.
Ias Oh nAn reFsrsatly tCo4 Or his A4g
4ad 10 woman ei4spsd Asr hands ia
pfAycr. icalght FoA kelnsdyke ~ the
.Eal sna ~ls-lsd him around
There said. there s tho Angelus
Look az ~ yea never saw a. before and
yo4 MI usser see 30 AGAIN
HE lad never seen tae painting and
when 80 got home I made pencil
sketch Of is sat later on sent him "a
etcaiug u IL from Paris
Wat Is the real value Of the An
gelusf" repeated Mr. smith. after me.
WHO can tslla Its value c4anos BE ex-
pressed In figures les. 10 is worth
SEQ, goo, 10 is worth s20o. 600. il = worth
o., 600, 600 i, IS worth whatever
anyone chooses 10 pay for il. II
tells a story that had never been told
before and viii never be told again
There Will never be another Angelus."
IN paper read before the Rembrandt
Club In lses. which has never before
been published, Mr. Smith drew the
following picturesque sketch OF Millet's
great painting and graphically con
trasted II with other famous works Of
arr.
'One year ago, ~ the exhibition Of
the Morgan collection in New York, the
bonnets were i've deep trying 90 get
a glimpse OF half dozen red pre-
lates who were listening 20 a mission
ary's story; and later on = highly cult
waited and intelligent American citizen
was 50 entranced that he bought the
missionary. story AID all, for the price
OF brown stone, and carried him away
that be might enjoy him in person.
Many OF these devOtees went into rap
lures over the brass nails in the sofa.
and we're disappointed when they could
not read the monogram on the bishops
ring.
a man only rises 20 his own level.
In art, as in music and literature, he
only expresses himself. Each selects
his own method. The school OF Meis-
sonia, II may so express IL, is not con
tent With q few grand truths simply ex-
pressed. They want a multitude Of
facts; they tell their story IN their own
way They are the Dickens and Walter
Scott Of art. Ii is iteratim and reit-
eratim.
My Cardinal must not only have
red stockings says Vileert. but they
must also be silk every detail must Do
elaborated
well, what Of ftp you say. What
DO you criticise, the drawing?
NO
The c0forr
sNo.
The compositions
''No.
Does The painter express hinseHr
Perfectly.
what them
'Just this. He expresses himself TOO
perfectly. Al first I am delighted The
story IS too we'll told The well-fed
prelates; the half sneer, the cynical
smile. the earnest missionary telling
his story-bus the next day9-well ne
is still telling IL. BY the end of the
week the en- .oyment Is confined 10 al
lowing time % tell it 70 q fresh eye,
and that eye anothers, and watching
his pleasure. At the end Of year il
become part OF the decoration of the
wall. You perhaps feel that the frame
needs retouching, and that is all the
impression it makes upon you except as
would an old time-piece with the main
spring gone. The works are exquisite,
and the enamelling charming but it
has been four o'clock for forty years"
SO much for the modern French
school of advanced Impressionists. In
contrast 20 their works Mr. smith
turns 70 AIillett's master piece.
In the library" he continued,
hangs an etching which you often look
a.. in fact you never pass il without
noticing IT, Two figures. wheel
barrow. a a. sde. \ sketch of country. a
suirs peacihed against loN-tone SKY.
and yet somehow yoa hear the toiling
u bell aud the whispered prayer
Millet bas taken yOu into his confidence.
He says come and see what / once
saw Do you remember any such old
:oaple working cut in the aeldP
Bat II hs added See. ny old nan
wea-s WOODEN jacl<et trimmed with
Eorssed braid. your impression imme-
iia.ely fsdes. You might remember
.he Jacket. but the braid never.
.Thas = my opinion x The great
"a -Hrx shss NJ sutton has Just
bought Why sidnt Milet receive =
lager erics for = than re did2 r aas
taken shirty years TO educate rhs art
public "a, 20 Miliet's standard when -
painted tns An9slus
.sDidas hss death add greatly % -
vslas IF lis work.
n.neasasrabiv. Niliet 8ied and
th.re sre TO more Miilst painters that
prevents Implications An etching =
msae-a great stching one hundred
y-ints ars struck e then the plate s
destroyed
Are they rot worth nore than
thev vouh - IL tie plates Fers
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