Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-04-27
A MASTERPIECE.


I with his towusiolll ard neiEhGCrs.
Hut lie was 1ar from huTuv, for he cr1yeA
above all else the reputation Of great
artist IL was mot fer money at all that he
wished celebrity. II was the honor and
fame hat he desired. In short, the young
man was ambition, beyond all words.
Hans had tried iEdU>triou>ly to paint
good pictures The room was filed liter
ally TO overlooking with these dauhs.
Their number was the result of Il peculiar
train Of thought on the part oi the painter.
He had said To himself:
My pictures are bad, undoubtedly very
bad. but-and | piously thank heaven for
this-there is not the shadow of pretense
about them. At the first glance they carry
the conviction Of their complete iufcriority.
'Herc j. no attempt to cloak faults of draw
ing or of color. No one can say that my
pictures are not honestly bad ones. Now,
| suppose no man is all bad have, then,
capacity for only limited number OF
these wretehed creations, let me say oG0.
to be thoroughly on the safe side. | will
paint 500 pictures, and l warrant the five
hundred and first will be masterpiece p"
He was still working at the 500 and his
skill was improving, the necessary conse-
quence of hard, honest work, but Hans
was discouraged and began to doubt his
hypothesis. He was a long way from that
five hundred and first picture, and be
could not help dreading lest, after this
wedding of himself for the five huDdredth
time, the next picture, when finished,
might prove not to be masterpiece, might
never reach the Louvre.
Masterpiece. Louvre, As quick as flash
he saw a plan for satisfying at one grand
coup his ambition and patriotism as well.
An hour later he laid this plan before his
friend Quentin.
The great emperor was then In the midst
of those prodigious thefts which have
more than all else endeared him to the
really thoughtful and earnest sort of
Frenchmen. His victorious armies from
all over southern Europe were constantly
returning laden with the most precious
works of art.
In Greece, take what he might, he could
hardly go wrong, and therefore could trust
to his own jude ment, but in Italy and the
southern countries there is good reason to
believe that his choice was guided chiefly
by the actions Of the guardians of the vari
Gus art repositories, and that be selected,
at all times, the paintings or the marbles
which appeared to be the subjects of great
est solicitation to their owners
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