Fromentin

MASTERPIECES IN COLOUR EDITED BY - - M. HENRY ROUJON
FROMENTIN (1820-1876)
IN THE SAME SERIES REYNOLDS VELASQUEZ GREUZE TURNER BOTTICELLI ROMNEY REMBRANDT BELLINI FRA ANGELICO ROSSETTI RAPHAEL LEIGHTON HOLMAN HUNT TITIAN MILLAIS LUINI FRANZ HALS CARLO DOLCI GAINSBOROUGH TINTORETTO VAN DYCK DA VINCI WHISTLER RUBENS BOUCHER HOLBEIN BURNE-JONES LE BRUN CHARDIN MILLET RAEBURN SARGENT CONSTABLE MEMLINC FRAGONARD DÜRER LAWRENCE HOGARTH WATTEAU MURILLO WATTS INGRES COROT DELACROIX FRA LIPPO LIPPI PUVIS DE CHAVANNES MEISSONIER GÉRÔME VERONESE VAN EYCK FROMENTIN MANTEGNA PERUGINO
PLATE I.—A HALT (Collection of M. Sarlin)
It is hardly necessary to call attention to the art with which Fromentin has succeeded in arranging his masses of colour so as to secure a harmonious distribution of light. Could anything be more perfectly balanced, in point of composition, than this alluring canvas?
BY GEORGES BEAUME
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY FREDERIC TABER COOPER
ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY NEW YORK—PUBLISHERS
COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
Printed in the United States of America
EUGÈNE-SAMUEL-AUGUSTE FROMENTIN-DUPEUX was born at La Rochelle on the twenty-fourth of October, 1820. His family was a very old one and held in high honour throughout Aunis and Saintonge.