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execution, finding the picturesque among the low, rude peasantry of his country, and, by the magic of his touch, making the simplest object interesting. His execution is broad and forcible, his color always gray, and often with masterly fine distinctions of tone and skilfully chosen oppositions. He is different from the Netherlanders in his perception of the values of the lights as lights, for his pictures are always marked hy a quietness of tone and a strength of contrast much less prominent than that found in the Dutch pictures. With him, a sober half-tone takes the place of the brilliant, sparkling, flesh tones sought for by the Netherlanders, and his figures seem to be in a veiled sunlight, or under a cloudy sky. In his Prowlers, a squad of dirty, sullen-looking vaga
bonds are led along in fetters by the gen d’armes, and the People in the streets point curiously at the prisoners. There ls hardly a contour in the picture, yet the figures are drawn ^Uth distinguished skill, and the expressions are strongly Marked,—more by vice than by virtue, to be sure, yet true to the life. I n this picture, Munkacsy is seen more in his dement than in the genres , where there is little facial expres- Sl01 b and perhaps no particular display of passion. His l0 gues you do not pity, but despise, and his honest people ba^e no varnish of imaginary perfection, in form or character, bio does not impress by his poetical conceptions, but rather I0 m his forcible and piquant manner of telling a story, leav- lll g it to work its own effect on the spectator. He exposed 0lle landscape, rather wanting in atmosphere, but rich in fine ^tumnal grays. The finest portraits were by L. Horovitz.
ne ’ °f a young lady, was especially attractive, from its nat- lll,l l grace of pose and beautiful sweetness of expression, and Were delicate in tone and contour, characteristic in truth 111 father a studied way. Unexpected and forcible arguments ‘s ,l mst Catholicism were the cartoons of Zichy,—the boldest ^ceptions and the most eloquently expressed ideas in this partment. Christ and the Priests is an interpretation of a 'gious question rarely illustrated. The Saviour appears in ^ } aze of light, welcoming with his right hand the heathen, le Protestants, the persecuted, and the champions of free- 0rn , among whom are seen Garibaldi, raising the Italian, 111( I the typical American, freeing the negro. With his left