THE HISTORY OF MODERN PAINTING
[Illustration: _Mansell Photo_
LESLIE MY UNCLE TOBY AND THE WIDOW WADMAN]
THE HISTORY OF
MODERN PAINTING
BY RICHARD MUTHER
PROFESSOR OF ART HISTORY
AT THE UNIVERSITY
OF BRESLAU
IN FOUR
VOLUMES
[Illustration]
VOLUME
TWO
REVISED EDITION
CONTINUED BY THE AUTHOR
TO THE END OF THE XIX CENTURY
LONDON: PUBLISHED BY J. M. DENT & CO.
NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO. MCMVII
CONTENTS
PAGE
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix
BOOK III
THE TRIUMPH OF THE MODERNS
CHAPTER XVI
THE DRAUGHTSMEN
The general alienation of painting from the interests of life
during the first half of the nineteenth century.--The draughtsmen
and caricaturists the first who brought modern life into the
sphere of art.--England: Gillray, Rowlandson, George Cruikshank,
"Punch," John Leech, George du Maurier, Charles Keene.--Germany:
Johann Adam Klein, Johann Christian Erhard, Ludwig Richter, Oscar
Pletsch, Albert Hendschel, Eugen Neureuther, "Die Fliegende
Blätter," Wilhelm Busch, Adolf Oberländer.--France: Louis
Philibert Debucourt, Carle Vernet, Bosio, Henri Monnier, Honoré
Daumier, Gavarni, Guys, Gustave Doré, Cham, Marcellin, Randon,
Gill, Hadol, Draner, Léonce Petit, Grévin.--Need of a fresh
discovery of the world by painters.--Incitement to this by the
English 1
CHAPTER XVII
ENGLISH PAINTING TO 1850
England little affected by the retrospective tendency of the
Continent.--James Barry, James Northcote, Henry Fuseli, William
Etty, Benjamin Robert Haydon.--Painting continues on the course
taken by Hogarth and Reynolds.--The portrait painters: George
Romney, Thomas Lawrence, John Hoppner, William Beechey, John
Russell, John Jackson, Henry Raeburn.--Benjamin West and John
Singleton Copley paint historical pictures from their own
time.--Daniel Maclise.--Animal painting: John Wootton, George
Stubbs, George Morland, James Ward, Edwin Landseer.--The painting
of _genre_: David Wilkie, W. Collins, Gilbert Stuart Newton,
Charles Robert Leslie, W. Mulready, Thomas Webster, W. Frith.--The
influence of these _genre_ pictures on the painting of the
Continent 53
CHAPTER XVIII
THE MILITARY PICTURE
Why the victory of modernity on the Continent came only by
degrees.--Romantic conceptions.--Æsthetic theories and the
question of costume.--Painting learns to treat contemporary
costume by first dealing with uniform.--France: Gros, Horace
Vernet, Hippolyte Bellangé, Isidor Pils, Alexander Protais,
Charlet, Raffet, Ernest Meissonier, Guillaume Régamey, Alphonse de
Neuville, Aimé Morot, Edouard Détaille.--Germany: Albrecht Adam,
Peter Hess, Franz Krüger, Karl Steffeck, Th. Horschelt, Franz
Adam, Joseph v. Brandt, Heinrich Lang 92
CHAPTER XIX
ITALY AND THE EAST
Why painters sought their ideal in distant countries, though they
did not plunge into the past.--Italy discovered by Leopold Robert,
Victor Schnetz, Ernest Hébert, August Riedel.--The East was for
the Romanticists what Italy had been for the Classicists.--France:
Delacroix, Decamps, Prosper Marilhat, Eugène Fromentin, Gustave
Guillaumet.--Germany: H. Kretzschmer, Wilhelm Gentz, Adolf
Schreyer, and others.--England: William Muller, Frederick Goodall,
F. J. Lewis.--Italy: Alberto Pasini 118
CHAPTER XX
THE PAINTING OF HUMOROUS ANECDOTE
After seeking exotic subjects painting returns home, and finds
amongst peasants a stationary type of life which has preserved
picturesque costume.--Munich: The transition from the military
picture to the painting of peasants.--Peter Hess, Heinrich Bürkel,
Carl Spitzweg.--Hamburg: Hermann Kauffmann.--Berlin: Friedrich
Eduard Meyerheim.--The influence of Wilkie, and the novel of
village life.--Munich: Johann Kirner, Carl Enhuber.--Düsseldorf:
Adolf Schroedter, Peter Hasenclever, Jacob Becker, Rudolf Jordan,
Henry Ritter, Adolf Tidemand.--Vienna: Peter Krafft, J. Danhauser,
Ferdinand Waldmüller.--Belgium: Influence of Teniers.--Ignatius
van Regemorter, Ferdinand de Braekeleer, Henri Coene, Madou, Adolf
Dillens.--France: François Biard 140
CHAPTER XXI
THE PICTURE WITH A SOCIAL PURPOSE
Why modern life in all countries entered into art only under the
form of humorous anecdote.--The conventional optimism of these
pictures comes into conflict with the revolutionary temper of the
age.--France: Delacroix' "Freedom," Jeanron, Antigna, Adolphe
Leleux, Meissonier's "Barricade," Octave Tassaert.--Germany:
Gisbert Flüggen, Carl Hübner.--Belgium: Eugène de Block, Antoine
Wiertz 175
CHAPTER XXII
THE VILLAGE TALE
Germany: Louis Knaus, Benjamin Vautier, Franz Defregger, Mathias
Schmidt, Alois Gabl, Eduard Kurzbauer, Hugo Kauffmann, Wilhelm
Riefstahl.--The Comedy of Monks: Eduard Grützner.--Tales of the
Exchange and the Manufactory: Ludwig Bokelmann, Ferdinand
Brütt.--Germany begins to transmit the principles of _genre_
painting to other countries.--France: Gustave Brion, Charles
Marchal, Jules Breton.--Norway and Sweden stand in union with
Düsseldorf: Karl D'Uncker, Wilhelm Wallander, Anders Koskull,
Kilian Zoll, Peter Eskilson, August Jernberg, Ferdinand Fagerlin,
V. Stoltenberg-Lerche, Hans Dahl.--Hungary fructified by Munich:
Ludwig Ebner, Paul Boehm, Otto von Baditz, Koloman Déry, Julius
Aggházi, Alexander Bihari, Ignaz Ruskovics, Johann Jankó, Tihamér
Margitay, Paul Vagó, Arpad Fessty, Otto Koroknyai, D.
Skuteczky.--Difference between these pictures and those of the old
Dutch masters.--From Hogarth to Knaus.--Why Hogarth succumbed, and
_genre_ painting had to become painting pure and simple.--This new
basis of art created by the landscapists 194
CHAPTER XXIII
LANDSCAPE PAINTING IN GERMANY
The significance of landscape for nineteenth-century
art.--Classicism: Joseph Anton Koch, Leopold Rottmann, Friedrich
Preller and his followers.--Romanticism: Karl Friedrich Lessing,
Karl Blechen, W. Schirmer, Valentin Ruths.--The discovery of
Ruysdael and Everdingen.--The part of mediation played by certain
artists from Denmark and Norway: J. C. Dahl, Christian
Morgenstern, Ludwig Gurlitt.--Andreas Achenbach, Eduard
Schleich.--The German landscape painters begin to travel
everywhere.--Influence of Calame.--H. Gude, Niels Björnson Möller,
August Cappelen, Morten-Müller, Erik Bodom, L. Munthe, E. A.
Normann, Ludwig Willroider, Louis Douzette, Hermann Eschke, Carl
Ludwig, Otto v. Kameke, Graf Stanislaus Kalkreuth, Oswald
Achenbach, Albert Flamm, Ascan Lutteroth, Ferdinand Bellermann,
Eduard Hildebrandt, Eugen Bracht.--Why many of their pictures,
compared with those of the old Dutch masters, indicate an
expansion of the geographical horizon, rather than a refinement of
taste.--The victory over interesting-subject-matter and
sensational effect by the "_paysage intime_" 230
CHAPTER XXIV
THE BEGINNINGS OF "PAYSAGE INTIME"
Classical landscape painting in France: Hubert Robert, Henri
Valenciennes, Victor Bertin, Xavier Bidault, Michallon, Jules
Cogniet, Watelet, Théodore Aligny, Edouard Bertin, Paul Flandrin,
Achille Benouville, J. Bellel.--Romanticism and the resort to
national scenery: Victor Hugo, Georges Michel, the Ruysdael of
Montmartre, Charles de la Berge, Camille Roqueplan, Camille Flers,
Louis Cabat, Paul Huet.--The English the first to free themselves
from composition and the tone of the galleries: Turner.--John
Crome, the English Hobbema, and the Norwich school: Cotman, Crome
junior, Stark, Vincent.--The water colour artists: John Robert
Cozens, Girtin, Edridge, Prout, Samuel Owen, Luke Clennel, Howitt,
Robert Hills.--The influence of aquarelles on the English
conception of colour.--John Constable and open-air
painting.--David Cox, William Muller, Peter de Wint, Creswick,
Peter Graham, Henry Dawson, John Linnell.--Richard Parkes
Bonington as the link between England and France 257
CHAPTER XXV
LANDSCAPE FROM 1830
Constable in the Louvre and his influence on the creators of the
French _paysage intime_.--Théodore Rousseau, Corot, Jules Dupré,
Diaz, Daubigny and their followers.--Chintreuil, Jean Desbrosses,
Achard, Français, Harpignies, Émile Breton, and others.--Animal
painting: Carle Vernet, Géricault, R. Brascassat, Troyon, Rosa
Bonheur, Jadin, Eugène Lambert, Palizzi, Auguste Lançon, Charles
Jacque 294
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 360
BOOK IV
THE REALISTIC PAINTERS AND THE MODERN IDEALISTS
CHAPTER XXVII
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 391
BIBLIOGRAPHY 435
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PLATES IN COLOUR
PAGE
LESLIE: My Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman _Frontispiece_
ROMNEY: Serena 53
LAWRENCE: Caroline of Brunswick, Queen of George IV 60
MACLISE: The Waterfall, Cornwall 64
MORLAND: Horses in a Stable 69
LANDSEER: Jack in Office 76
FROMENTIN: Algerian Falconers 132
ROTTMANN: Lake Kopaïs 234
TURNER: The old Téméraire 268
CONSTABLE: Willy Lott's House 275
BONINGTON: La Place de Molards, Geneva 290
COROT: Landscape 316
MILLET: The Wood-Sawyers 370
IN BLACK AND WHITE
ACHENBACH, ANDREAS.
Sea Coast after a Storm 247
Fishing Boats in the North Sea 249
ADAM, ALBRECHT.
Albrecht Adam and his Sons 112
A Stable in Town 113
BAADE, KNUT.
Moonlight Night on the Coast 253
BECKER, JACOB.
A Tempest 165
BERGE, CHARLES DE LA.
Landscape 263
BOILLY, LEOPOLD.
The Toilette 2
The Newsvendor 3
The Marionettes 4
BONHEUR, ROSA.
The Horse-Fair 351
Ploughing in Nivernois 353
BONINGTON, RICHARD PARKES.
The Windmill of Saint-Jouin 290
Reading Aloud 291
Portrait of Richard Parkes Bonington 293
BONNAT, LÉON.
Adolphe Thiers 423
Victor Hugo 424
BONVIN, FRANÇOIS.
The Cook 427
The Work-Room 428
BRETON, ÉMILE.
The Return of the Reapers 225
The Gleaner 226
BRION, GUSTAVE.
Jean Valjean 221
BUNBURY, WILLIAM HENRY.
Richmond Hill 9
BÜRKEL, HEINRICH.
Portrait of Heinrich Bürkel 143
Brigands Returning 144
A Downpour in the Mountains 145
A Smithy in Upper Bavaria 146
BUSCH, WILHELM.
Portrait of Wilhelm Busch 29
CABAT, LOUIS.
Le Jardin Beaujon 264
CALAME, ALEXANDRE.
Landscape 250
CHAPLIN, CHARLES.
The Golden Age 418
Portrait of Countess Aimery de la Rochefoucauld 419
CHARLET, NICOLAS TOUISSAINT.
Un homme qui boît seul n'est pas digne de vivre 95
CHINTREUIL, ANTOINE.
Landscape: Morning 343
CONSTABLE, JOHN.
Portrait of John Constable 274
Church Porch, Bergholt 275
Dedham Vale 277
The Romantic House 278
The Cornfield 279
Cottage in a Cornfield 283
The Valley Farm 285
COPLEY, JOHN SINGLETON.
The Death of the Earl of Chatham 65
COROT, CAMILLE.
Portrait of Camille Corot 306
The Bridge of St. Angelo, Rome 307
Corot at Work 308
Daphnis and Chloe 309
Vue de Toscane 310
At Sunset 311
The Ruin 312
Evening 313
An Evening in Normandy 314
The Dance of the Nymphs 315
A Dance 316
La Route d'Arras 317
COURBET, GUSTAVE.
Portrait of Gustave Courbet 393
The Man with a Leather Belt. Portrait of Himself as
a Youth 394
A Funeral at Ornans 395
The Stone-Breakers 397
The Return from Market 400
The Battle of the Stags 401
A Woman Bathing 402
Deer in Covert 403
Girls lying on the Bank of the Seine 404
A Recumbent Woman 405
Berlioz 406
The Hind on the Snow 407
My Studio after Seven Years of Artistic Life 409
The Wave 412
COX, DAVID.
Crossing the Sands 286
The Shrimpers 287
CROME, JOHN (OLD CROME).
A View near Norwich 273
CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE.
Monstrosities of 1822 6
DANHAUSER, JOSEF.
The Gormandizer 179
DAUBIGNY, CHARLES FRANÇOIS.
Portrait of Charles François Daubigny 335
Springtime 336
A Lock in the Valley of Optevoz 337
On the Oise 338
Shepherd and Shepherdess 339
Landscape: Evening 341
DAUMIER, HONORÉ.
Portrait of Honoré Daumier 37
The Connoisseurs 38
The Mountebanks 39
In the Assize Court 40
"La voilà ... ma Maison de Campagne" 41
Menelaus the Victor 42
DEBUCOURT, LOUIS PHILIBERT.
In the Kitchen 33
The Promenade 34
DECAMPS, ALEXANDRE.
The Swineherd 127
Coming out from a Turkish School 129
The Watering-Place 131
DEFREGGER, FRANZ.
Portrait of Franz Defregger 208
Speckbacher and his Son 209
The Wrestlers 210
Sister and Brothers 211
The Prize Horse 213
Andreas Hofer appointed Governor of the Tyrol 215
DÉTAILLE, EDOUARD.
Salut aux Blessés 111
DIAZ, NARCISSE VIRGILIO.
Portrait of Narcisse Diaz 328
The Descent of the Bohemians 329
Among the Foliage 331
The Tree Trunk 332
Forest Scene 333
DUBOIS, PAUL.
Portrait of my Sons 421
DUPRÉ, JULES.
Portrait of Jules Dupré 318
The House of Jules Dupré at L'isle-Adam 319
The Setting Sun 320
The Bridge at L'isle-Adam 321
Near Southampton 322
The Punt 323
Sunset 324
The Hay-Wain 325
The old Oak 326
The Pool 327
DURAN, CAROLUS.
Portrait of Carolus Duran 422
ENHUBER, CARL.
The Pensioner and his Grandson 163
ERHARD, JOHANN CHRISTOPH.
Portrait of Johann Christoph Erhard 21
A Peasant Scene 22
A Peasant Family 23
FLÀMM, ALBERT.
A Summer Day 251
FLÜGGEN, GISBERT.
The Decision of the Suit 186
FRITH, WILLIAM POWELL.
Poverty and Wealth 89
FROMENTIN, EUGÈNE.
Portrait of Eugène Fromentin 133
Arabian Women returning from drawing Water 134
The Centaurs 135
GAILLARD, FERDINAND.
Portrait 420
GAVARNI (SULPICE GUILLAUME CHEVALIER).
Portrait of Gavarni 43
Thomas Vireloque 44
Fourberies de Femmes 45
Phèdre at the Théâtre Français 48
"Ce qui me manque à moi? Une t'ite mère comme ça,
qu'aurait soin de mon linge" 49
GILLRAY, JAMES.
Affability 5
GRÉVIN, ALFRED.
Nos Parisiennes 51
GRÜTZNER, EDUARD.
Twelfth Night 219
GUILLAUMET, GUSTAVE.
The Séguia, near Biskra 136
A Dwelling in the Sahara 137
GURLITT, LUDWIG.
On the Sabine Mountains 245
GUYS, CONSTANTIN.
Study of a Woman 50
HARPIGNIES, HENRI.
Moonrise 344
HÉBERT, ERNEST.
The Malaria 123
HESS, PETER.
The Reception of King Otto in Nauplia 114
A Morning at Partenkirche 142
HÜBNER, CARL.
July 187
HUET, PAUL.
Portrait of Paul Huet 265
The Inundation at St. Cloud 266
HUGO, VICTOR.
Ruins of a Mediæval Castle on the Rhine 261
JACQUE, CHARLES.
The Return to the Byre (Etching) 355
A Flock of Sheep on the Road 356
Millet at Work in his Studio 365
Millet's House at Barbizon 366
KAUFFMANN, HERMANN.
Woodcutters Returning 154
A Sandy Road 155
Returning from the Fields 156
KEENE, CHARLES.
The Perils of the Deep 17
From "Our People" 19
KIRNER, JOHANN.
The Fortune Teller 162
KLEIN, JOHANN ADAM.
A Travelling Landscape Painter 20
KNAUS, LOUIS.
Portrait of Louis Knaus 195
In great Distress 196
The Card-Players 197
The Golden Wedding 199
Behind the Scenes 201
KOBELL, WILLIAM.
A Meeting 141
KOCH, JOSEPH ANTON.
Portrait of Josef Anton Koch 231
KRAFFT, PETER.
The Soldier's Return 170
LANDSEER, SIR EDWIN.
A Distinguished Member of the Humane Society 72
The last Mourner at the Shepherd's Grave 73
High Life 74
Low Life 75
LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS.
Mrs. Siddons 57
Princess Amelia 58
The English Mother 59
The Countess Gower 61
LEECH, JOHN.
The Children of Mr. and Mrs. Blenkinsop 11
Little Spicey and Tater Sam 11
From "Children of the Mobility" 12
LELEUX, ADOLPHE.
Mot d'ordre 181
LESLIE, CHARLES ROBERT.
Sancho and the Duchess 87
LESSING, CARL FRIEDRICH.
Portrait of Carl Friedrich Lessing 239
The Wayside Madonna 240
MACLISE, DANIEL.
Noah's Sacrifice 67
Malvolio and the Countess 68
MADOU, JEAN BAPTISTE.
In the Ale-house 172
The Drunkard 173
MARCHAL, CHARLES.
The Hiring Fair 223
MARCKE, EMILE VAN.
La Falaise 354
MARILHAT, PROSPER.
A Halt 132
DU MAURIER, GEORGE.
The Dancing Lesson 13
A Recollection of Dieppe 14
Down to Dinner 15
A Wintry Walk 16
MEISSONIER, ERNEST.
Portrait of Ernest Meissonier 101
1814 103
The Outpost 105
MEYERHEIM, FRIEDRICH EDUARD.
Portrait of Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim 157
Children at Play 158
The King of the Shooting Match 159
The Morning Hour 160
The Knitting Lesson 161
MICHEL, GEORGES.
A Windmill 262
MILLAIS, SIR JOHN EVERETT.
George du Maurier 12
MILLET, JEAN FRANÇOIS.
Portrait of Himself 361
The House at Gruchy 363
The Winnower 367
A Man making Faggots 368
The Gleaners 369
Vine-dresser Resting 371
At the Well 373
Burning Weeds 375
The Angelus 377
The Shepherdess and her Sheep 378
The Shepherd at the Pen at Nightfall 379
A Woman feeding Chickens 380
The Shepherdess 381
The Labourer Grafting a Tree 383
A Woman Knitting 384
The Rainbow 385
The Barbizon Stone 387
MONNIER, HENRI.
A Chalk Drawing 35
Joseph Proudhomme 36
MORGENSTERN, CHRISTIAN.
A Peasant Cottage (Etching) 243
MORLAND, GEORGE.
The Corn Bin 69
Going to the Fair 70
The Return from Market 71
MULLER, WILLIAM.
Prayer in the Desert 138
The Amphitheatre at Xanthus 288
MULREADY, WILLIAM.
Fair Time 88
Crossing the Ford 91
DE NEUVILLE, ALPHONSE.
Portrait of Alphonse de Neuville 107
Le Bourget 109
NEWTON, GILBERT STUART.
Yorick and the Grisette 83
OBERLÄNDER, ADOLF.
Variations on the Kissing Theme. Rethel 30
Variations on the Kissing Theme. Gabriel Max 30
Variations on the Kissing Theme. Hans Makart 31
Portrait of Adolf Oberländer 31
Variations on the Kissing Theme. Genelli 32
Variations on the Kissing Theme. Alma Tadema 32
PETTENKOFEN, AUGUST VON.
A Hungarian Village (Pencil Drawing) 224
PRELLER, FRIEDRICH.
Portrait of Friedrich Preller 235
Ulysses and Leucothea 237
RAEBURN, SIR HENRY.
Sir Walter Scott 63
RAFFET, AUGUSTE MARIE.
Portrait of Auguste Marie Raffet 96
The Parade 97
1807 98
Polish Infantry 99
The Midnight Review 100
REID, SIR GEORGE.
Portrait of Charles Keene 18
RIBOT, THÉODULE.
The Studio 429
At a Norman Inn 430
Keeping Accounts 431
St. Sebastian, Martyr 432
RICARD, GUSTAVE.
Madame de Calonne 417
RICHTER, LUDWIG.
Portrait of Ludwig Richter 24
Home 25
The End of the Day 26
Spring 27
After Work it's good to rest 28
RIEDEL, AUGUST.
The Neapolitan Fisherman's Family 124
Judith 125
ROBERT, HUBERT.
Monuments and Ruins 259
ROBERT, LEOPOLD.
Portrait of Leopold Robert 119
Fishers of the Adriatic 120
The Coming of the Reapers to the Pontine Marshes 121
ROMNEY, GEORGE.
Portrait of George Romney 55
Lady Hamilton as Euphrosyne 56
ROTTMANN, KARL.
Portrait of Karl Rottmann 232
The Coast of Sicily 233
ROUSSEAU, THÉODORE.
Portrait of Théodore Rousseau 295
Morning 296
Landscape, Morning Effect 297
The Village of Becquigny in Picardy 299
La Hutte 301
Evening 302
Sunset 303
The Lake among the Rocks at Barbizon 304
A Pond, Forest of Fontainebleau 305
ROWLANDSON, THOMAS.
Harmony 7
SCHIRMER, JOHANN WILHELM.
An Italian Landscape 241
SCHNETZ, VICTOR.
An Italian Shepherd 122
SPITZWEG, CARL.
Portrait of Carl Spitzweg 147
At the Garret Window 148
A Morning Concert 149
The Postman 151
STEVENS, ALFRED.
The Lady in Pink 413
La Bête à bon Dieu 414
The Japanese Mask 415
The Visitors 416
TASSAERT, OCTAVE.
Portrait of Octave Tassaert 182
After the Ball 183
The Orphans 184
The Suicide 185
TIDEMAND, ADOLF.
The Sectarians 167
Adorning the Bride 169
TROYON, CONSTANT.
Portrait of Constant Troyon 345
In Normandy: Cows Grazing 346
Crossing the Stream 347
The Return to the Farm 348
A Cow scratching Herself 349
TURNER, JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM.
Portrait of J. M. W. Turner 267
A Shipwreck 268
Dido building Carthage 269
Jumièges 270
Landscape with the Sun rising in a Mist 271
Venice 272
VAUTIER, BENJAMIN.
Portrait of Benjamin Vautier 202
The Conjurer 203
The Dancing Lesson 205
November 207
VERNET, HORACE.
The Wounded Zouave 93
VOLLON, ANTOINE.
Portrait of Antoine Vollon 425
A Carnival Scene 426
WALDMÜLLER, FERDINAND.
The First Step 171
WALLANDER, WILHELM.
The Return 227
WEBSTER, THOMAS.
The Rubber 85
WEST, BENJAMIN.
The Death of Nelson 64
WIERTZ, ANTOINE.
The Orphans 189
The Things of the Present as seen by Future Ages 191
The Fight round the Body of Patroclus 192
WILKIE, DAVID.
Blind-Man's-Buff 77
A Guerilla Council of War in a Spanish Posada 79
The Blind Fiddler 80
The Penny Wedding 81
The First Earring 82
DE WINT, PETER.
Nottingham 289
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THE TRIUMPH OF THE MODERNS