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and redeemed from sheer ugliness by the scanty trees and hedges round them. The trees have none of the grace of Corot's slender birches and poplars, as the cottages have none of the majesty of Turner's billows and tossing ships. Even when we come to the painting, we have to confess that there is an immense gulf between either the experienced mastery of Turner or the tender accomplishment of Corot and the dry, monotonous pats and spots out of which the Rousseau picture is built.....Here we have no broad sweeps of succulent paint was with Velasquez, no glowing expanse of luminous blues and browns as with Titian, no juicy depths of shadow as with Rembrandt, no fluent sword-

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