PLATE I.—DANSE DES BERGERS. Frontispiece
The “Danse des Bergers” is the living memorial of a happy mood—one of those moments of lyrical ecstasy of which Corot experienced so many, and which, by his genius, those less fortunate are enabled to share. The “feeling” in the drawing and painting of the trees is reminiscent of some words spoken by the painter when Paris was oppressing him—“I need living boughs. I want to see how the leaves of the willow grow from their branches. I am going to the country. When I bury my nose in a hazel-bush, I shall be fifteen years old. It is good; it breathes love!”
Corot
BY SIDNEY ALLNUTT
ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT
REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR
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