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Interpretation of Dagnan-Bouveret's "Consolatrix Afflictorum," circa 1903 [page 1 of 2]
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Copy NEW YORK, 355, FIFTH AVENUE. --- PARIS, 2, RUE GLÜCK. --- CABLE ADDRESSES KNOEDLER, LONDON. KNOEDLER, NEW YORK. KNOEDLER, PARIS. TELEPHONE 1373 GERRARD.
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Underlined: "Consoltarix Afflictorum" Monsieur Dagnan Bouveret has represented in his picture the man of the world, who, is seeking for rest, has chosen the loneliness of a wood for the solitude and "The Peace which Passeth all Understanding" and in his weariness for rest the spiritual man has entered his soul and in a vision he sees revealed the simplicity of Love and Peace in the Child Christ with his Mother feeding the birds and the animals of the forest seeking shelter under their care, he finds consolation in solitude and the awakening of a new life in him has begun. He returns to his fellow men with purer thoughts and comforted. He finds that the figure of Christ remains there after nineteen hundred years as effulgent as ever, and his rule of morals as sublime as ever, and