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Excerpt from De Luxe Illustrated Catalogue of Twenty-One Masterpieces Collected by the Late Mr. H. S. Henry, of Philadelphia: To Be Sold at Unrestricted Public Sale by Order of His Executors
And the spirit, the poetry, the charm that a painter puts in his work, if it be honest, will never pall upon succeeding generations. The pathos of Botticelli, the naive sin cerity of Carpaccio, are just as pertinent to this century as the charm of Corot or Daubigny and the Michelangelesque strength of Rousseau. Just so with Dupre's poetry of nature's dark moods. Cloud and shadow, wind and storm, were the very wings of his muse. He loved them deeply and painted them with a lover's passion. Throughout his long life he did not swerve from his early allegiance. He saw others rise about him with different views, different interpretations of nature, different methods, but with calm dignity he held his individual way. Good or bad, what work he sent forth he would have his own and bear a personal seal. Such work is never likely to pall upon the taste.
Fortune favored Dupre with a more even disposition than his companion Rous seau. He got along with the world better, was more successful financially, and had less bitterness in his life. He outlived all the early tempests that gathered about the heads of the band, and saw the ideas they had struggled for at last acknowledged. His quiet bearing under success was as admirable as his fortitude under early failure. He was not easily turned aside or beaten down or over-exalted. The belief of his youth he carried with him into old age, firmly convinced that some day it would triumph. It has triumphed, and Dupre with Rousseau has been justified.
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