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quality in the paint which seems to draw and model at the same time, it is by comparison loose, fragmentary, elusive. Yet there is a science in its freshness as well as in the painter-like feeling by which the broad masses of broken tone are enlisted and accentuated by the delicate drawing of the stems and branches. Thus the picture, with all its lightness and brushwork, lacks neither force nor shapeliness of touch, nor variety, although it is less forcible, less shapely, and less various in the quality of its pigment than the Fishing Boats. Corot, in fact, has sacrificed some qualities of good oil-painting to his sincere love of nature, but he still remains a delightful and accomplished artist. symbol in green ink: Ŧ

symbol in green ink: Ŧ C.J. Holmes - Burlington Magazine.

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