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by the contemporaries and friends of Barye, but I do not think that the visitor will find so large a number which can rightly be thus classed. To me it appears that something less than one-half are works of the first order, but among the remainder are many good things worthy of attention. Here again the treasures of Mr. Walters's collection are drawn upon and he sends some twenty-five pictures, prominent among which is the great
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Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, by Corot; the
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Evening Star, by the same master; Troyon's
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Cattle Drinking ; Diaz's
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Storm and
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Autumn Scene in the Forest of Fontainebleau ; Rousseau's
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Le Givre ; Decamps's
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Suicide ; Daubigny's large
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Sunset on the Coast of France ; Delacroix's
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Christ on the Cross ; and Millet's
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Breaking Flax. One of the finest Millets I have ever seen is here, lent by Mr. Walters. This is the
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Sheepfold at Night, which with several others of Mr. Walters's paintings here shown, was in the exhibition of
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One Hundred Masterpieces held at Paris in 1883. In its foreground a line of sheep pass by toward the gate of the fold through which some have already entered under the guidance of the shepherd and his dog, who stand near. The horizon is low, and just above it swings a swollen moon, shaped like a cup, from which floods of pale light fill the scene with color. If this were Mr. Walters's only contribution it would be sufficient to place us under a heavy obligation to him. The
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St. Sebastian is a large canvas, measuring four feet wide by eight feet high, which was first shown at the _Salon_ of 1853, and afterwards twice received important changes at the artist's hands. It shows an opening in a great wood, with the saint reclining on the ground tended by two holy women, while above appear some angels who bear the martyr's palm and crown. Rousseau's
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Le Givre is well described by Sensier, who says in his
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it represents
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The
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Suicide, of Decamps, shows the body of a young artist stretched lifeless on his pallet in a gloomy room, and is painted with extraordinary force. The
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Sunset,