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which the spectacle of life in such a remote country place would convey to a sensitive observer. To Titian or Rubens such a thing might have seemed hardly a picture at all; but it is a fragment of real life expressed in painting, and in doing it, Rousseau has achieved a thing which almost all his successors have spent their lives in trying to do, and have spent them in vain. symbol in green ink: Ŧ

heading in green ink: History of the Picture.

Collections: Frederick Hartman - Münster (Patron + constant friend of Rousseau.) Archibald Coates - Glascow

Exhibition: Salon year in green ink: 1864.

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

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