The homes of the men of 1830

by Faulkner, Herbert W ; Alexis Jean Fournier

$40 · Offered by Biblio

New York, NY: W. Schaus, 1910. Hardcover. Good, some wear at board edges, some discoloration of boards, minor penciling on endpage. Gray boards with gilt text on cover. (2) 3-75 pp. 6 unnumbered leaves of bw plates. "Truly Alexis Fournier is a veritable disciple of the Masters of the Barbizon School. It is as if he had walked and talked with each and all beneath the shade of Fontainebleau Forest. Mr Fournier has lovingly studied the lives of these his masters and has gone to the homes of each there to live over again in his eager imagination what they lived and saw and did. In each place he has patiently sought out their haunts and working grounds - living in Daubigny's studio sailing down the Oise with Corot and associating with the peasants of Millet - and has looked at Nature through their eyes; thus treading in their footsteps, breathing their artistic atmosphere, dwelling in the very pictures that they painted. In so doing he has acquired a rare insight into the works of the Barbizon painters and is peculiarly fitted to interpret their meaning." - Herbert W. Faulkner.

• Publisher: W. Schaus
• Year: 1910
• Binding: hardcover

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