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| Anonymous French artist (imitator of Manet) Still-life after 1883 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Gustave Courbet River in a Mountain Gorge ca. 1864 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Gustave Courbet The Charente at Port Bertaud 1862 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Gustave Courbet La Roche à Bayard, Dinant ca. 1856 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Honoré Daumier The Serenade ca. 1858 oil on panel National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Honoré Daumier The Painter 1865 oil on panel National Galleries of Scotland |
from The Painter Dreaming in the Scholar's House
Supposes the burlap bag to be the universe,
And black because its volume is the void
Before the stars were. At the painter's hand
Volume becomes one-sidedly a surface,
And all his depths are on the face of it.
Against this flat abyss, this groundless ground
Of zero thickness stretched against the cold
Dark silence of the Absolutely Not,
Material worlds arise, the colored earths
And oil of plants that imitate the light.
They imitate the light that is in thought,
For the mind relates to thinking as the eye
Relates to light. Only because the world
Already is a language can the painter speak
According to his grammar of the ground.
– Howard Nemerov (1968)
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| Edgar Degas Before the Performance ca. 1896-98 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Edgar Degas Portrait of Diego Martelli (art critic) 1879 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Eugène Delacroix Study for part of the Justice frieze for Palais Bourbon, Paris ca. 1833-36 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Henri Fantin-Latour Spring Flowers 1872 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Henri Fantin-Latour Peaches on a dish 1873 oil on panel National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Henri Fantin-Latour Roses 1888 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Henri-Joseph Harpignies Cliffs near Crémieu 1847 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Georges Seurat La Luzerne, Saint-Denis 1884-85 oil on canvas formerly owned by Roger Fry National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Georges Seurat Rue St Vincent, Paris, in Spring ca. 1884 oil on panel (cigar-box lid) Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |