Identifier: tablebookofarthi00sand (find matches)
Title: The table book of art; a history of art in all countries and ages
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Sandhurst, Phillip T
Subjects: Painting -- History
Publisher: N.Y., Worthington
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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lgerian Women in 1S34, and the Jewish Marriage in Morocco, in which we are ableto follow the several phases of his talent. These works were succeeded by theBridge of Taillebonrg, a Medea, the Shipzvrcckcd Mariners, the Entrance of Baldwininto Constantinople, and many others. Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, one of the best of modern French landscapepainters, was born at Paris in 1796. He was apprenticed to a draper, but young Corotwas determined to be a painter, and, in spite of all that his parents did to dissuadehim, entered in 1822, the studio of Michallon. When that artist died, Corot studiedfor a time under Victor Bertin, but quitting that master, he went to Italy, where,during a stay of several years, he applied himself diligently to study landscapepainting from nature. In 1827 appeared Corots first works, a View of Narui, andthe Campagna of Rome; in the Paris Exhibition of 1855, he exhibited MorningEffect and Evening, and in the same year received a first-class medal; in the London
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FLANDRIN. 163 Exhibition of 1862, he was one of the artists who represented the French school, andao-ain in 1871, in which year he exhibited no less than twenty-one pictures. He wasalso a frequent exhibitor in the French Gallery, Pall Mall. He died in 1875. Corotwas a poet, and his canvasses are the expression of refined ideas. Joseph Louis Hippolvte Bellange was born in Paris in 1S00, and took hisearnest lessons in art from Gros, acquiring some reputation for his lithographic draw-ings of military figures when scarcely more than a boy. In 1824 Bellange won asecond-class medal for an historical picture; in 1S34, he was made a member of theLegion of Honour; in 1835, he obtained one of the prizes of the French Interna-tional Exhibition ; his best known picture is A Square of Republican Infantry re-pulsing Austrian Dragoons. His most important pictures, however, are to be seen inthe Collections at Versailles and the Luxembourg, and include his Battle of the Alma,Painful Adieux, the Depar

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