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Scan 71
Voice and violin, 1898
10 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 51. See the scan on archive.org.
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5The well-known painter Gallait, one of the greatest representatives of the modern Flemish school, once horrified the public by the exhibition of his terrible historic picture of the Counts d’Egmont and De Hornes immediately after their execution at Brussels by orders of the Spanish Duke of Alva. It is one of the frightful episodes of the sixteenth century. But he is more popularly admired for his charming composition Art and Liberty: an Alpine shepherd-boy, with slouched felt hat and bright intelligent face, a thick coarse cloak thrown over one shoulder, and a violin, on which he is playing, pressed against the other; whilst on the white-washed wall which forms the background of the picture is scrawled in bold characters the word “Maria.”
7Another picture, less widely known, but no less beautiful and of a sadder nature, is called Douleur oubliée (forgotten grief). It represents an episode in the life of the celebrated Hungarian violinist Giorgi.
9The title of this splendid picture scarcely ex-
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