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From the many collections throughout the University, a representative display has been chosen, which will include works of Beldung, Corot, Klee, Matisse, Picasso, Raimondi, Rodin, and Roualt. The show will formally open tomorrow with a reception to be held in the Naumberg Room of the Museum...
France's renowned Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot showed his study of the ruins of the 900-year-old Abbey at Jumiéges, a Seine village a few miles beyond Normandy's ancient capital, Rouen. Celebrated for its churches, duck pâté, sugar candy made of apples, and for the martyrdom of Joan of Arc, Rouen was the scene of paintings by Pissarro, Guillaumin, and Normandy's almost unknown but excellent Albert Lebourg, who died, paralyzed, at Rouen only 15 years ago. Lebourg's three paintings of the Seine near Rouen were infused with...
...Wending its serpentine way through the Norman greenery, the river flows past the village of Villequier, once the home of Victor Hugo, begins to turn salty near Quillebeuf, painted by the seascapist Boudin. The exhibition, with six splendid Boudins including a glimpse of the beach at Trouville, ends with Corot's serene view of seaside Honfleur...
...kindly, peaceful old painter came to paint so many good pictures and so many bad ones has always mystified critics. Some critics believe that his lapse of taste was due to the influence of the camera, that as Corot approached modern Impressionism, he was guilty of "photographic flimsiness" in his drawing, in his effects of light and shade...
Others insist that in his later life he copied his own pictures to make enough money for his charities to fellow painters (Corot once refused 10,000 francs for some pictures, asked the buyer to give Millet's widow a ten-year 1,000-franc annuity instead). But as Bachelor Corot grew older, his pictures grew more effeminate, his landscapes became more wishy-washy, more virginal. Famed Critic Julius Meier-Graefe once summed up what was wrong with Corot as a painter by remarking that he "lacked the grain of poison which is the preservative of greatness...