Chapter XXVII

Chapter XXVI

JEAN FRANÇOIS MILLET

His importance, and the task left for those who followed him.—Millet’s principle Le beau c’est le vrai had to be transferred from peasant painting to modern life, from Barbizon to Paris

Book IV

THE REALISTIC PAINTERS AND THE MODERN IDEALISTS

REALISM IN FRANCE

Gustave Courbet and the modern painting of artisan life.—Alfred Stevens and the painting of “Society.”—His followers Auguste Toulmouche, James Tissot, and others.—In opposition to the Cinquecento the study of the old Germans, the Lombards, the Spaniards, the Flemish artists, and the Rococo masters becomes now a formative influence.—Gustave Ricard, Charles Chaplin, Gaillard, Paul Dubois, Carolus Duran, Léon Bonnat, Roybet, Blaise Desgoffe, Philippe Rousseau, Antoine Vollon, François Bonvin, Théodule Ribot

BIBLIOGRAPHY

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PLATES IN COLOUR

PAGE

Leslie: My Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman Frontispiece

Romney: Serena

Lawrence: Caroline of Brunswick, Queen of George IV

Maclise: The Waterfall, Cornwall

Morland: Horses in a Stable

Landseer: Jack in Office

Fromentin: Algerian Falconers

Rottmann: Lake Kopaïs

Turner: The old Téméraire

Constable: Willy Lott’s House

Bonington: La Place de Molards, Geneva

Corot: Landscape

Millet: The Wood-Sawyers

IN BLACK AND WHITE

Achenbach, Andreas.

Sea Coast after a Storm

Fishing Boats in the North Sea

Adam, Albrecht.

Albrecht Adam and his Sons

A Stable in Town

Baade, Knut.

Moonlight Night on the Coast

Becker, Jacob.

A Tempest

Berge, Charles de La.

Landscape

Boilly, Leopold.

The Toilette

The Newsvendor

The Marionettes

Bonheur, Rosa.

The Horse-Fair

Ploughing in Nivernois

Bonington, Richard Parkes.

The Windmill of Saint-Jouin

Reading Aloud

Portrait of Richard Parkes Bonington

Bonnat, Léon.

Adolphe Thiers

Victor Hugo

Bonvin, François.

The Cook

The Work-Room

Breton, Émile.

The Return of the Reapers

The Gleaner

Brion, Gustave.

Jean Valjean

Bunbury, William Henry.

Richmond Hill

Bürkel, Heinrich.

Portrait of Heinrich Bürkel

Brigands Returning

A Downpour in the Mountains

A Smithy in Upper Bavaria

Busch, Wilhelm.

Portrait of Wilhelm Busch

Cabat, Louis.

Le Jardin Beaujon

Calame, Alexandre.

Landscape

Chaplin, Charles.

The Golden Age

Portrait of Countess Aimery de la Rochefoucauld

Charlet, Nicolas Touissaint.

Un homme qui boît seul n’est pas digne de vivre

Chintreuil, Antoine.

Landscape: Morning

Constable, John.

Portrait of John Constable

Church Porch, Bergholt

Dedham Vale

The Romantic House

The Cornfield

Cottage in a Cornfield

The Valley Farm

Copley, John Singleton.

The Death of the Earl of Chatham

Corot, Camille.

Portrait of Camille Corot

The Bridge of St. Angelo, Rome

Corot at Work

Daphnis and Chloe

Vue de Toscane

At Sunset

The Ruin

Evening

An Evening in Normandy

The Dance of the Nymphs

A Dance

La Route d’Arras

Courbet, Gustave.

Portrait of Gustave Courbet

The Man with a Leather Belt. Portrait of Himself as a Youth

A Funeral at Ornans

The Stone-Breakers

The Return from Market

The Battle of the Stags

A Woman Bathing

Deer in Covert

Girls lying on the Bank of the Seine

A Recumbent Woman

Berlioz

The Hind on the Snow

My Studio after Seven Years of Artistic Life

The Wave

Cox, David.

Crossing the Sands

The Shrimpers

Crome, John (Old Crome).

A View near Norwich

Cruikshank, George.

Monstrosities of 1822

Danhauser, Josef.

The Gormandizer

Daubigny, Charles François.

Portrait of Charles François Daubigny

Springtime

A Lock in the Valley of Optevoz

On the Oise

Shepherd and Shepherdess

Landscape: Evening

Daumier, Honoré.

Portrait of Honoré Daumier

The Connoisseurs

The Mountebanks

In the Assize Court

“La voilà ... ma Maison de Campagne”

Menelaus the Victor

Debucourt, Louis Philibert.

In the Kitchen

The Promenade

Decamps, Alexandre.

The Swineherd

Coming out from a Turkish School

The Watering-Place

Defregger, Franz.

Portrait of Franz Defregger

Speckbacher and his Son

The Wrestlers

Sister and Brothers

The Prize Horse

Andreas Hofer appointed Governor of the Tyrol

Détaille, Edouard.

Salut aux Blessés

Diaz, Narcisse Virgilio.

Portrait of Narcisse Diaz

The Descent of the Bohemians

Among the Foliage

The Tree Trunk

Forest Scene

Dubois, Paul.

Portrait of my Sons

Dupré, Jules.

Portrait of Jules Dupré

The House of Jules Dupré at L’isle-Adam

The Setting Sun

The Bridge at L’isle-Adam

Near Southampton

The Punt

Sunset

The Hay-Wain

The old Oak

The Pool

Duran, Carolus.

Portrait of Carolus Duran

Enhuber, Carl.

The Pensioner and his Grandson

Erhard, Johann Christoph.

Portrait of Johann Christoph Erhard

A Peasant Scene

A Peasant Family

Flàmm, Albert.

A Summer Day

Flüggen, Gisbert.

The Decision of the Suit

Frith, William Powell.

Poverty and Wealth

Fromentin, Eugène.

Portrait of Eugène Fromentin

Arabian Women returning from drawing Water

The Centaurs

Gaillard, Ferdinand.

Portrait

Gavarni (Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier).

Portrait of Gavarni

Thomas Vireloque

Fourberies de Femmes

Phèdre at the Théâtre Français

“Ce qui me manque à moi? Une t’ite mère comme ça, qu’aurait soin de mon linge”

Gillray, James.

Affability

Grévin, Alfred.

Nos Parisiennes

Grützner, Eduard.

Twelfth Night

Guillaumet, Gustave.

The Séguia, near Biskra

A Dwelling in the Sahara

Gurlitt, Ludwig.

On the Sabine Mountains

Guys, Constantin.

Study of a Woman

Harpignies, Henri.

Moonrise

Hébert, Ernest.

The Malaria

Hess, Peter.

The Reception of King Otto in Nauplia

A Morning at Partenkirche

Hübner, Carl.

July

Huet, Paul.

Portrait of Paul Huet

The Inundation at St. Cloud

Hugo, Victor.

Ruins of a Mediæval Castle on the Rhine

Jacque, Charles.

The Return to the Byre (Etching)

A Flock of Sheep on the Road

Millet at Work in his Studio

Millet’s House at Barbizon

Kauffmann, Hermann.

Woodcutters Returning

A Sandy Road

Returning from the Fields

Keene, Charles.

The Perils of the Deep

From “Our People”

Kirner, Johann.

The Fortune Teller

Klein, Johann Adam.

A Travelling Landscape Painter

Knaus, Louis.

Portrait of Louis Knaus

In great Distress

The Card-Players

The Golden Wedding

Behind the Scenes

Kobell, William.

A Meeting

Koch, Joseph Anton.

Portrait of Josef Anton Koch

Krafft, Peter.

The Soldier’s Return

Landseer, Sir Edwin.

A Distinguished Member of the Humane Society

The last Mourner at the Shepherd’s Grave

High Life

Low Life

Lawrence, Sir Thomas.

Mrs. Siddons

Princess Amelia

The English Mother

The Countess Gower

Leech, John.

The Children of Mr. and Mrs. Blenkinsop

Little Spicey and Tater Sam

From “Children of the Mobility”

Leleux, Adolphe.

Mot d’ordre

Leslie, Charles Robert.

Sancho and the Duchess

Lessing, Carl Friedrich.

Portrait of Carl Friedrich Lessing

The Wayside Madonna

Maclise, Daniel.

Noah’s Sacrifice

Malvolio and the Countess

Madou, Jean Baptiste.

In the Ale-house

The Drunkard

Marchal, Charles.

The Hiring Fair

Marcke, Emile van.

La Falaise

Marilhat, Prosper.

A Halt

du Maurier, George.

The Dancing Lesson

A Recollection of Dieppe

Down to Dinner

A Wintry Walk

Meissonier, Ernest.

Portrait of Ernest Meissonier

1814

The Outpost

Meyerheim, Friedrich Eduard.

Portrait of Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim

Children at Play

The King of the Shooting Match

The Morning Hour

The Knitting Lesson

Michel, Georges.

A Windmill

Millais, Sir John Everett.

George du Maurier

Millet, Jean François.

Portrait of Himself

The House at Gruchy

The Winnower

A Man making Faggots

The Gleaners

Vine-dresser Resting

At the Well

Burning Weeds

The Angelus

The Shepherdess and her Sheep

The Shepherd at the Pen at Nightfall

A Woman feeding Chickens

The Shepherdess

The Labourer Grafting a Tree

A Woman Knitting

The Rainbow

The Barbizon Stone

Monnier, Henri.

A Chalk Drawing

Joseph Proudhomme

Morgenstern, Christian.

A Peasant Cottage (Etching)

Morland, George.

The Corn Bin

Going to the Fair

The Return from Market

Muller, William.

Prayer in the Desert

The Amphitheatre at Xanthus

Mulready, William.

Fair Time

Crossing the Ford

de Neuville, Alphonse.

Portrait of Alphonse de Neuville

Le Bourget

Newton, Gilbert Stuart.

Yorick and the Grisette

Oberländer, Adolf.

Variations on the Kissing Theme. Rethel

Variations on the Kissing Theme. Gabriel Max

Variations on the Kissing Theme. Hans Makart

Portrait of Adolf Oberländer

Variations on the Kissing Theme. Genelli

Variations on the Kissing Theme. Alma Tadema

Pettenkofen, August von.

A Hungarian Village (Pencil Drawing)

Preller, Friedrich.

Portrait of Friedrich Preller

Ulysses and Leucothea

Raeburn, Sir Henry.

Sir Walter Scott

Raffet, Auguste Marie.

Portrait of Auguste Marie Raffet

The Parade

1807

Polish Infantry

The Midnight Review

Reid, Sir George.

Portrait of Charles Keene

Ribot, Théodule.

The Studio

At a Norman Inn

Keeping Accounts

St. Sebastian, Martyr

Ricard, Gustave.

Madame de Calonne

Richter, Ludwig.

Portrait of Ludwig Richter

Home

The End of the Day

Spring

After Work it’s good to rest

Riedel, August.

The Neapolitan Fisherman’s Family

Judith

Robert, Hubert.

Monuments and Ruins

Robert, Leopold.

Portrait of Leopold Robert

Fishers of the Adriatic

The Coming of the Reapers to the Pontine Marshes

Romney, George.

Portrait of George Romney

Lady Hamilton as Euphrosyne

Rottmann, Karl.

Portrait of Karl Rottmann

The Coast of Sicily

Rousseau, Théodore.

Portrait of Théodore Rousseau

Morning

Landscape, Morning Effect

The Village of Becquigny in Picardy

La Hutte

Evening

Sunset

The Lake among the Rocks at Barbizon

A Pond, Forest of Fontainebleau

Rowlandson, Thomas.

Harmony

Schirmer, Johann Wilhelm.

An Italian Landscape

Schnetz, Victor.

An Italian Shepherd

Spitzweg, Carl.

Portrait of Carl Spitzweg

At the Garret Window

A Morning Concert

The Postman

Stevens, Alfred.

The Lady in Pink

La Bête à bon Dieu

The Japanese Mask

The Visitors

Tassaert, Octave.

Portrait of Octave Tassaert

After the Ball

The Orphans

The Suicide

Tidemand, Adolf.

The Sectarians

Adorning the Bride

Troyon, Constant.

Portrait of Constant Troyon

In Normandy: Cows Grazing

Crossing the Stream

The Return to the Farm

A Cow scratching Herself

Turner, Joseph Mallord William.

Portrait of J. M. W. Turner

A Shipwreck

Dido building Carthage

Jumièges

Landscape with the Sun rising in a Mist

Venice

Vautier, Benjamin.

Portrait of Benjamin Vautier

The Conjurer

The Dancing Lesson

November

Vernet, Horace.

The Wounded Zouave

Vollon, Antoine.

Portrait of Antoine Vollon

A Carnival Scene

Waldmüller, Ferdinand.

The First Step

Wallander, Wilhelm.

The Return

Webster, Thomas.

The Rubber

West, Benjamin.

The Death of Nelson

Wiertz, Antoine.

The Orphans

The Things of the Present as seen by Future Ages

The Fight round the Body of Patroclus

Wilkie, David.

Blind-Man’s-Buff

A Guerilla Council of War in a Spanish Posada

The Blind Fiddler

The Penny Wedding

The First Earring

De Wint, Peter.

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