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OUB FRENCH CORRESPONDENT , 333
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O- Paris, Dec. 19, 1861. The Artistic Th...
Versailles antique statue . The , and vulgar are in accessories style more are " all historical absent— " such than as any cur in
tainscarved chairs , vases , and backgrounds of the theatrical scenerun painting of , ho sty t , that hs , qui by te giving spoil a their pretentious effect . air Disderi to the is justl general y of
opinion p that ograp nothing , is more ridiculous than these " photographies si meublees" in which manor woman eitheris but an _aceessorv
and of which , the subject and , " the hero" is a hi , gh-backed chair , or a pedestal and urn . In the salon ( opening- off the ante-chamber ) in
the which catalogue these portraits as Des are reproductions contained , are en exhibi grand ted de p a ho series tograp described hies instan , in
tanees . " They are also a series of large pictures , but deal with groups in action rather than with individuals in quiescent attitudes . In
them scenes are and represented eisodes in , with camp an life almos . One t livin dep g icts vivacity 3 _" a train , agricul of artillery tural
In motion ; another p a military forge ; a third the transports of wounded soldiers in ambulance waggons ; in a fourth , a trim , jaunty ,
little mvandiere is selling wine to thirsty Zouaves ,- and a fifth dislays a iment of cavalry going through its drill . Nothing
can p be more reg agreeable than these photographs , or more lively in general effect . It is almost incredible that a look , however
_fLeeting , can be caught by an artist drawing " d la mecaniquc , " or that machine-made ictures can render with as much freedom as the
pencil the most p rapid gesture of the most excitable Frenchman or Italian . The ploughman laughing and the blacksmith striking the
nail into the horse ' s shoe ; the dog giving his paw to his juvenile tt and masterthe child crying and the movement of the
nurse yran ' s mouth when chirping , are all there as at the moment , and seem as natural as if the ploughman , the blacksmith , the boy and dog ,
the nurse and child , never in their lives sat for their likenesses to be taken . To such a pitch of perfection has Disderi carried art and
science , that critics of taste and reputation here are of opinion that Horace Vernet , the great painter of military scenes , might ,
with considerable profit to himself , study from tke " episodes in camp life " now exhibited in the Rue Dronot .
In the second room of the exhibition is a series of pictorial p after hotograp the hic lundering reproductions of the of summer the curiosities palace and brou the ght storming from Chin of a
Pekinand p presented to Napoleon by General Montauban . Everybody knows , how much the Chinese excel in fineness of manipulationand what minute carvings of fairy-like delicacy they are
capable , of producing with the most ordinary tools . Not one of the most infinitesimal details is lost of all the frost-like chasing that
covers a fan now in the possession of the Empress , and which , to appreciate the carver ' s skill must be seen through a powerful
microscope . Everything is rendered with the most rigorous fidelity . Relief is not lost in contour or in general effect ; neither is the contour lost
in the minuteness of the details . On seeing these admirable re-
Oub French Correspondent , 333
OUB FRENCH CORRESPONDENT , 333
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 333, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/45/
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