A Winter in Russia

Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1874 edition. Extrait: ...moral anguish, and who already looks at life from the other side. Everybody knows how little aid is given to the expression of tragic feeling by the powder and the curled hair and the styles of dress of 1789; and yet Zichy has been able to make of Werther, in spite of the vignettes of the time, and even the famous blue coat, an ideal creation, poetic and full of character. It has a vigor worthy of Rembrandt; the light, coming from beneath, strikes unexpectedly upon all objects, bringing them out in a strange, weird fashion; and behind Charlotte's lover rises to the very ceiling a shadow, magnified into a phantom. The spectre seems to stand ready to take the place of the man, who is about to disappear. It is not easy to imagine the strength of color obtained in this drawing in India ink, which is usually so cold. As 1 have said, this artist has a multiform nature; you believe you understand him, you assign to him a rank, a manner and style characteristic, as you suppose; suddenly he places before you a new work which quite disconcerts you, and renders your former estimate incomplete. Who would have expected after tin's Wertherto see three large water-colors of still life, representing the very same fox, wolf, and lynx whose skins hang in his drawing-room, and which he killed with his own hand? Neither Jadin, nor Barye, nor Delacroix could have done better. This talent alone would be enough to make its possessor famous in Paris, and this is but one of the least with which Zichy is endowed; there is a truthfulness of tone, a skill in the anatomical drawing, a free touch, a fortunate rendering, a comprehension of each animal's nature, of which one can have no idea. Each beast keeps his own...