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...Fogg Art Museum has just added by gift and purchase, thirty-two prints to its permanent collections. Among others there are in this new acquisition fine examples of the work of Millet, Jacque, Daubigny, Corot, and Rousseau, as well as two interesting lithographs by Whistler. All of the prints thus added are of the very highest quality and should serve to stimulate interest in the work of the "1830 men" so that a more serious student will be tempted to explore further the wealth of XIX century material, which is to be seen under such favorable conditions at the Museum...
...Reynolds and Romney were ranked with the works of third rate artists. Today no pictures are so popular as those of the old masters; and the highest price ever brought at Christian's was for a Sir Joshua. In landscape painting we look back from the present school to Corot and Daubigny, and from them to the Englishmen, Bennington and Constable. These painters were the leaders in the great movement against Romanticism and Classicism...