The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-21

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mustache. scarcely traceable beneath
his slightly curved. aquilins noe. h
joined by fan shaped hard and borders
his thick. sensuous lips, his compiler iou h
olive brown. bat OF changing. sensitive
tone; the round. curiously shaped head
and prominent check bones denote stub
bornness. and the flexible nostrils passion
This description might serve for that Of
q lyric poet Courbet must have changed
much 70 become the burly. truculent
revolutionist he was ~ was q great
and powerful man. says one observer.
A. sound and natural AZ the oxen OF his
birthplace He had broad shoulderu with
which he pushed aside everything that
stood in his way His was an instinct
rather than q rejecting brain. q peintre-
animal As he was called by a friend
Like his fellow countrymAn and intimate
Proudhon. he had q strain OF German
blood in his veins which may account
for his abnormal thirst and in their
outward appearance IL gave them both
something Tsutonic rugged and heavy.
contrasting with Frvnch ease and ele-
gance
Gu his massive frame Was set a thick
With black hair. and big. strong eyes
like those ~ lion tanner, which sparkled
like blark diamonds A strong man who
had never been stinted. he was 81 medium
height blur. ruddy like a butcher. and
~ the years passed inclined to a liberal
circumference OF body He lAbored like
Sisyphus and vas never without a short
pipe in his mouth His movements were
heavy. and being short in his breathing
he wheezed when excited and perspired
over his painting His dress was com
Portable hut not elegant, and his head was
formed for a cap rather than the official
silk hat In speech he vas coarse and
cynical. and he often broke into con
temptuous laughter Both in his studio
and at his tavern he moved more freely
IN his shirt sleeves, in short the man 81
his pictures. At the Munich exhibition
Of Iseo he caused the Bavarian artists
both To admire and envy his capacity
for beer Upon the woodsn hut which
he built IN the vicinity ~ the Pont De
Jena. Just a. the entrance 81 the world
expedition ~ 1855. he inscribed In huge
letters Realism q CouThet Within
we're thirty-eight pictures A tremendous
self-puTcr. Courbet At times reminds us
NJ a man yelling in the midst Of a gale.
you may sc the contorted features. hut
you cant overhear the voice because II
the wind
There are some first class Courbets in
America A. the Metropolit1n Museum
several are ~ eIccllent quality though the
big nude seems - US academic IN design
and execution and rather cadaverous IN
tone No doubt \ poet would write q the
lady's skin as being 81 dun coolness. II
seems drab chilliners - modern eyes
The Landscapes are better AZ the Brook
lyn Institute there 10 Mr. Henry I Chap
man . Courbet a vaterspom about o.
bear down upon a water drenchci coast
And IN the MhnhAtt m galleries ~ Mr.
ChApnans son. Fr"1crick 4 Chapman,
there IL very handsome Courbe, a
IaIdsC are H. the Wilst1ch Gallery.
West Philadelphia. there u Wave
by the Ornans master that - Of
splendid quality How much Whistler
was influenced at the beginning by Cour.
bet may be noted IN the Blue Wave at the
KraushaaT Gallery Anders Zorn too
has b~en infiuenced nv the powerful ude~
~ Courb~t COurbet. who IN hla fcCundity
and 'oUgUs - Inca artistic ds'-C sndant ~
Joria"ns and Rubens But unhappIly
Ter himsslf and art. ne never emerged from
his SVrw uHd Dr1r0 periOd Even after
the conflict had been waged and had
c~ls"i he invtncibly remained the revo-
luiI1nIs' the Miraheau among painters