| Show I TilE LESSON OF A JKEIT TIC TIKE There was niver M costly a picture pic-ture as the Angelus of ililltt eihiliitwl in this cuunto Tin throng uf sj ectxitors was ItctinL A procession of pilgrims was constantly con-stantly nMMuJln the stalrr and after wondering at the liart bronzes passlns by easy graJatlons through rsngra of other modern French rictut nUll of his own it arrived at last ut the curtained bhriue of Millets most famous work Who would bare MJpimtfd Uiit there was so general a Vuowltdgt of modern French art among us and that Millets renown WAS fOCnmlllnr that we should all flock on foot and I rt fl fn Ut il in carriages to jay homage Hut how many ofus ot > 5erei the cynic I who sat bmihug ioniUimis upon the landing of the firt tLtirravr somttimea In all the rooms Bow many hennJ or comprehended his tnt LlIt tztraordinary remark that it ua all a fada funny fad Could ito have meant that most of the ragtr and preaJng throne had meyer heard of Millet and knew not an Angelus from a Bacchus Could he have meant that the nttatle na > not due to luve of art butto servility to fashion Above all could he have intended to insinuate that we were all the victims of an aJvtrtis Ing genuisUforu which 3Ir Fulk rrton would have U < u lot in von ikr Joe and praise Iu other word was it all to to may an oL verveof Jujce Uitli or thu woolly herewith his tall white his head ought to OOT Wa the public sonic Ilarnumbed to that like those us ceplible to the forro of animal ma netim we must do what the magnetizer willed IVTlnjs so IVrlmie it u as a great tjKtulatiorv But whater drew the truwd the I piiture was there IU Ltauly and trfTiitweru untouched by time mo lives of Its visitors If they wire usceptible to its charms they I would not bo lts to leoauc they bad never heard otthupletureortbe painter or because they merely fol l loued the fashion in going to semI It The chief surprise of thu Angelus was probably IN tze Prihaps to thoeof us nbo did not tuovr anil they were the great multitude the mrge price suggeitetl a large picture Possibly alO a great multitude ben they were reconciled to the iie sought Us charm a lioncttlt and hopele > slynsColonelXeircombo l tried to fathom the meaning of dives great work The AngelusJ U a picture of the utmost iimplicitr i 1tdoa1 I wiUm one oCUe riamarysotiti menta that of worship of limo un I I two Its tenderness and gentleness i arc profoundly affecting general I form and character of sentiment the Angelus Is like another familiar picture of American origin IJoughtong lUturu of the tIny dower There also are the low horizon I anti plain landscape and Iwo flrures against the oythe youth holding his hat In his hand he maiden turned toward him but wlh wistfully watching tile reced leg sail Both of them are pictures I of deep and tender sentiment ioughtous evidentlyand deMsiied I t Isno But how far i this true oft i Millet Did the artist intend the reand poetic effect that be hag reduced In his other work hrouch which we come to this is there the same imaginative touch and coal The acute eye the faithful faith-ful hand the skill are in all But tb lo they prepare us for the poetic rlmrm of the Angelut At the other end of the long room In which tL hung thtre was a pictun of two ftgultSlbnUol potatoes In a Held probably near Barbizon here 3HI let lived He saw tie planting I con tantly iu the rrcK morning and he painted it simply and naturally natur-ally but notor Is it sorwllh the eye of Imagination and with poetic Intent and perccition Has the picture of potato planting any of the algher quality which we teem to find in tbe Angelus And yet nh may not the Angelus ha r I I Icon LIlt the painting of the same figures bending to the MiUnd of the I 111 instead rf dnj > i > iiig the potato I Tile jointer saw the one hectic ini the morning and jointed It time otheralsunnemaml uiuted Ir Wa I I Omit the voil of clfervation onlj 1 I and the other of Imagination Anti I is ltnmertly I our own romantic a > to elatIon wIth the vepj Icr bell which I makes ouuastudy from life and the other a glimise of celestial Arcady I Such questions are curious but they do not fleet the enchantment of time picture dcergc Ifilluim Curia in 1 t harper Muguancjaf Jlarctt I |
