Notable Paintings By Corot Rousseau Daubigny Dupre And Other Barbizon Artists

Author : John William Mollett
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230468259
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book The Painters of Barbizon; Millet, Rousseau, Diaz, Corot, Daubigny, Dupré Volume 1 written by John William Mollett and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... TEAN FRANCOIS MILLET was born on the 4th of Octo"ber, 1814--the date is by many writers erroneously given 1815, but the above is that of the official register of birth--at the hamlet of Gruchy, which M. Piedagnel describes "at the base of the cliffs of Greville, at the sea: limit of that pays perdu, so picturesqe and so wild, which is called La Hogue." Mr. Henley, with greater accuracy, describes Gruchy as, not at the base of, but "perched upon the iron cliffs of La Hogue, which overlook the troubled waters of Cherbourg Roads." He was the eldest son of Jean Louis Nicolas Millet, a peasant proprietor, who cultivated his own small farm, and by the help of the French peasant's frugality and unflagging toil, and the Catholic's disciplined piety, and the fanner's foresight, and a combination of shrewdness in business and dignity in domestic life worthy of a Scottish patriarch, succeeded in maintaining in great respectability of admitted poverty, a large family of relatives and children on the hardly-earned proceeds of the few acres of seaside land that he inherited from his ancestors. To him, for eighteen years of his life, Fran ois Millet was a labourer in regular work. The mother of Millet, poor woman! was a lady descended B from a family of gentlemen yeomen, called Henry du Perron, degraded by the Revolution; her maiden name was Aim6e Henrietta Adelaide Henry; her position in the family, by the almost inconceivable custom of the country, was also rather that of a labourer than a mother, the care of her children in their infancy being taken away from her and transferred to the mother of her husband, who lived in her house and ruled it and her children for her, while the mother was occupied more particularly at her labour in the fields...