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Title: Art and criticism : monographs and studies
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Child, Theodore
Subjects: Art criticism
Publisher: Harper
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

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Mr. C. S. Reinhart, who is so well known as an illustrator
of inexhaustible invention and alert expression, figured at the
Universal Exhibition with two important works, " Watching
for the Absent" (Salon 1888) and " Une Épave " (Salon 1887).
Both these pictures are irreproachably drawn and painted; the
composition is adequate; the men and women are life-like;
the general aspect is effective in a realistic way. Mr. Rein-
hart has a mind peopled with souvenirs of scenes, objects, and
types, an ocular memory of singular retentiveness, and perfect
command of all the material processes of drawing—in short,
a combination of rare gifts which make him one of the few
eminent illustrators of the day. His two oil-paintings show
that he has also adequate command of all the material pro-
cesses of painting.
Mr. Henry Mosler, although professing to be a pupil of
Hebert, under whom he studied for six months, is more truly
indebted to the schools of Dusseldorf and Munich for such ar-
tistic education as he has received. Since 1878, when his name
first begins to appear regularly in the catalogue of the Salon,
he has worked sedulously and conscientiously at the produc-
tion of pictures that have always proved to be interesting and
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" THE PIPING TIMES OF PEACE "
From the painting by F. D. Millet

AMERICAN ARTISTS AT THE PARIS EXHIBITION. 133

popular. The number of these works is considerable. Their
titles, like the subjects treated, are generally anecdotic, such
as " The Return of the Prodigal Son," now in the Musee du
Luxembourg; " The Wedding Gown;" " The Village Clock-
maker;" " The Wedding Morning;" the " Visit of the Mar-
chioness;" " The Coming Storm;" a " Breton Harvest Dance;"
for Mr. Mosler, it must be added, has an especial affection for
the customs and costumes of Brittany. The qualities of Mr.
Mosler are homely sentiment, a talent for telling an obvious
story such as ordinary people can comprehend and enjoy, and
an execution which is always adequate and often excellent so
far as it goes.
American sculpture was very sparingly represented at the
Paris Exhibition. The only work of incontestable and really
high merit was Mr. Paul Wayland Bartlett's bronze " The Bear
Trainer," a group full of grace, intelligent observation, and
intimate charm. Mr. Bartlett is an artist exceedingly skilful
in execution, and always distinguished in the conception of his
subjects.

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