Masters in art Volume 2; a series of illustrated monographs by Books Group

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 ...my land scape you must wait--wait till the mists have cleared a little. Be patient! You can't see the whole of it at first; but gradually, by and by, you will get in; and then I am sure you will be pleased.'" ORPHEUS GREETING THE MORN PRIVATE COLLECTION IT has been said that nowhere is the very essence of morning more truthfully and exquisitely portrayed than in this picture of Corot's, in which Orpheus rapturously hails the approach of day. The golden tone of the picture, the soft radiance of its color, the breadth and delicacy of its execution, as well as the poetry of its inspiration, all combine to make it one of Corot's most beautiful creations. The picture was painted in 1861, and is therefore a work of the master's middle period. THE BATHERS PRIVATE COLLECTION was fond," writes M. Tocqué, "of, as it were, bidding you follow him out-of-doors in that hour of unreal half-light that precedes the dawn, and stealing from tree-trunk to tree-trunk through the glade, leading you to the borders of some secret pool where, parting the wet screen of leaves that showers down a silver rain of drops, he will show you such a scene as this. Sometimes he plays Actson, and then the hidden bathers are Diana and her nymphs; sometimes he is but a sylvan swain, and then, as here, they are only rustic girls; but always there is the freshness of morning and of youth and the idyllic quality of pastoral poetry upon the scene." A ROAD IN SUNSHINE PRIVATE COLLECTION IN an often-quoted and wholly delightful letter to a friend, Corot has autobiographically described the landscape-painters' day out-of-doors. He is on the watch with the earliest signs of dawn; but he does not take up his brush until the rising sun has pierced the obscuring mists, and all thin...