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Title: Meissonier, his life and his art
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest, 1815-1891 Gréard, Octave, 1828-1904
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Publisher: New York : A. C. Armstrong
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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THE SIGN-PAINTER. (Water-colour drawing, Metropolitan Musetim, New Yorl<.) imperfectly expressed, seemed to him far above all those masterpiecesof execution which mask poverty of thought. Soul, soul, he wrote, THE MASTER—THE MAN 6i and yet again soul ! This is what we must keep on repeating to theyoung ones. The true object of every work of art is the expression of
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IHh l.KiiUbK^ Ai;KitN AM> VMLLIA.M VAN UE \ EI.DK. (Metropolitan Museum, New York.) emotion. If you do not feel this emotion yourself, how will youinspire it in others ? The greatness of the primitives lay in theirpower of communicating to the spectator the passion with which they 62 MEISSONIER themselves were filled—a passion oiteii iiane, hnital, and ill regulated,if you will, but so striking that none have ever equalled them inthis respect. Cultivate heart then ; you will always have enoughhead. Perhaps this was a secret easy to discover. Meissonier con-fessed as much. It was more difficult to put it in practice, and thishe did not hesitate to proclaim. His counsels, like his admirations,were virile and sincere. Painting is a proud and harsh mistress. Towin her love, it is not enough to love her. On this subject he was asoutspoken as Boileau : A shoemaker who makes good shoes, aploughman who turns a straight furrow, a joiner who uses his planewell, are a thousand times more pr

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