The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-12
OF THE ANGELUS.
.,,rrH,s OPINION OF MILLErS
GREAT MASTERPIECES.

az, Artists as Business hA9iA
D.. paving Kind of Work-SS'ooo
for a Portrait.
xrw YORK. Aug. 10.-'I saw MilleU's
,rrslns over in life" said F. Hopklnson
- the noted artist, the other evening.
20 the sight Of a lifetime. | was walk
49, ,ri+b Won Reinsdyke, Dutch friend OF
o,a summer afternoon several years
,roin Holland. We had left the little town
: nardrecht and were wandering over the
oraI country roads wherever our FANCY
o5rs The sun was just going down and
-,ar twilight was creeping over the land
a,o Away1n the distance was thes plre OF
'..;,,ace church. Two old peasants, man
md s woman, were digging IN field at the
,.,5 .ida when the soft peals of the even
IN co7,a tons. The old man reverent-
,-to,l- oF his hat and the woman clasped
,or hand, in PRAYER. l caught Won Relns-
,..a h,, the arm and wheeled him around.
=. .rbare said. there is the Angelus.
Look at It; you never sd" IL D9Aoi0 "AN ="
vii never see it again.
mHa had never seen the painting and when
xa got home made pencil sketch OF IL
md later on sent him an etchlng OF IL from
aWbat is the real value of the A7gelus@'
ID Mr. smith. after me- "Who can
'sfl lis value cannot be expressed in fig
,res Yes il is worth Sl00, 600; it is worth
boo 600. il is worth $1,000 900. 1t is worth
whatever anyone chooses to pay n It, IL
Oils a story that had never been told
tefore and will never be told again.
there VIII never be ano her Angelus.
In a PAPER read before the Rembrandt
.nb in 1888. which has never before been
,nhlisbad Mr.. Smith drew the following
,cturesoue sketch of Millet's great paint
1ganl graphically contrasted it with other
'amous works Of art:
Zone wear ago, at the exhibition of the
Morgan collection in New York, the bon
qets were five deep trying to get a glimpse
If half dozen red prelates who were lis
,aning TO a missionary IS story; and later on
highly cultivated and intelligent Ameri-
IAN citizen was so entranced that be bought
tbe missionary, story al d all, for the price
Of a brown stone aud carried him away
hat be might enjoy MIN IN person. M any
If these devOteeS went into raptureS over
The brass nails in the sofa, and were disap-
pointed when they could not read the mono
gram on the bishops ring.
"A man only rises to his own level. In
art. as in music I'd literature, he only ex-
presses himself Each selects his own meth
ID. The school of Messonier, il | may so
lxnress it, is not content with few grand
truths simply expressed. They want a
multitude of facts; they tell their story in
heir own way. They are the Dickens and
Walter Scott of art 1t is iteratim and
reiteratim.
"'My Cardinal must not only have red
stockings" says, Vileert, but they must
also be silk; every detail must be elabo-
.ated
"'Well, what of itp you say. What do
you criticise, the drawing"
"No.
1.-The color?
mo.
1.-The compositionp
mo.
docs the painter express himselfY
Perfectly.
"'What tbenF
Just this. He expresses himself too
perfectly. At first | am delighted. The
story is too well told. The well-fed pref
ates; the half sheer, the cynical smile. the
earnest missionary telling his story-but
the next day!-weil, he is still telling it. By
the end OF the week the enj ,yment is con
lined to allowing time to tell it to a fresh
eye, and that eye another's, and Watching
bis pleasure. At the end Of a year it be-
comes part of the decoration of the wall
You perhaps feel that the frame needs
II retouchlng, and that is all the impression il
makes upon you except as would an old
time piece with the main spring gone. The
works are exquisite, and the enameIino
charming, but 1t has been 4 o'clock for for.
i y years" A
30 much for the modern French school of
advanced lmpressionists. In CONTRAST 10
SnelI works Mr.. Smith turns to Milett,s
master piece.
In the library" he continued. "hanos an
eIcnlng which you often look at. in fact
you never pass 1t without noticing it. Two
4 nsuIeS' a "heel-barrow, spade, sketch
" country a splre penciled against a low
Il t .one SKY, and yet somehow YOU hear the
ssQiiihg OF bell and the whispered ,ravor
Nli tt4y mas taken you into his confidence
n ne says, Come and see what once saw
~ yO yot remember any such old couple work
n ing out IN the fieldn " "a "A
DuI II ne added See, my old man wears
4 br %9oieh jacket trimmed with worsted
VW5aiu, your impression Immediately fades
braid never. '>' ouU INC
mat is my opinion of the praat ,otn+
ing mat Mr.. Sutton has lust bongbt VI VII
t Iluut Milet receive a larger price fo,.
e5 i~n ne Qid! 1t has taken thirty wears to
o ~ the art public up to Millet's sta
"' NV y men ne painted the Anpelus y
&c Dion' his death add greatly To tho ,-o,,,o
~ his workY' W Une value
i ara inLnlIneasurably, Millet died and tbara
iio more Mlllet painters. That nravantS
# etcnil as An etching is madeFa great
#tben ~ Ohe hundred prints are strue< ~
81 -o "a 1ne plate Is destroyed" 00A oA
#wonId b oNog not worth more than thew
#hundredS % - C o plates were preserved and
THE 1oo t copies produced every year9"
#celno 1o o. oG a OF any artist increases tho
cb hue or ms work. But the tin n@' OLe
#to-dasy d. u SINCE Mlllet lived. The artis4 of
- % oecomlng a business man H.
Bel his l- ,roail The needy genius who nnet
>sand Iodo, ini ~ TO greedy dealer for hraa6
81 onIy, slhg Is going out of date NJ az
IL mal. n1p"I as young raau. As eoo,, ao
IA sacr;a Jus nrst reputation. the necaSsit e1
81 ,s SHSI ilce disappears. 1oooSslUy
tor the protectio 1-i'S country an art guild.
costs Each etbo'e 1 of American artists T.
way it works -.0i 4 81 a year. This is the
zartexDositia, a dealer, or the agent of an
81 troit or anv o+l Say IN milwaukee,, or De-
wants Soy 10y oeher town, comes to mo ar,d
bfar '3 sS some OF my paintings to o1h NE ana
b. ' " SAFE. ask him wbatba an'4 ~ ana
to " ot iae guild, He says mo- Then he mas bs
to G ineF artists who put the same 9 oue no
cannot ga+ IN IN short time he finds that that
tle guild. ST tbs ms pictures except throu%b
Yon D o. men he goes there. oosn
ozen paintin lave e one, two, three, a half
sts saws .- ths by our best American on
be pct qS guarantee for the safs 1u deposit
ges oconr ~ ana to pay for whatever u, DO oL
lovided vo w me canvas or frames and