MASTERPIECES IN COLOUR EDITED BY-- M. HENRY ROUJON FROMENTIN (1820-1876) _IN THE SAME SERIES_ REYNOLDS VELASQUEZ GREUZE TURNER BOTTICELLI ROMNEY REMBRANDT BELLINI FRA ANGELICO ROSSETTI RAPHAEL LEIGHTON HOLMAN HUNT TITIAN MILLAIS LUINI FRANZ HALS CARLO DOLCI GAINSBOROUGH TINTORETTO VAN DYCK DA VINCI WHISTLER RUBENS BOUCHER HOLBEIN BURNE-JONES LE BRUN CHARDIN MILLET RAEBURN SARGENT CONSTABLE MEMLINC FRAGONARD DÜRER LAWRENCE HOGARTH WATTEAU MURILLO WATTS INGRES COROT DELACROIX FRA LIPPO LIPPI PUVIS DE CHAVANNES MEISSONIER GÉRÔME VERONESE VAN EYCK FROMENTIN MANTEGNA PERUGINO [Illustration: PLATE I.--A HALT (Collection of M. Sarlin) It is hardly necessary to call attention to the art with which Fromentin has succeeded in arranging his masses of colour so as to secure a harmonious distribution of light. Could anything be more perfectly balanced, in point of composition, than this alluring canvas?] FROMENTIN BY GEORGES BEAUME TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY FREDERIC TABER COOPER ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR [Illustration: IN SEMPITERNUM.] FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY NEW YORK--PUBLISHERS COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY _Printed in the United States of America_ CONTENTS Page The First Steps 11 The Promised Land 29 An Evolution 45 The Master and His Destiny 58 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Plate I. Halt of Horsemen Frontispiece M. Sarlin’s Collection II. The Arab Encampment 14 Musée du Louvre III. Thirst 24 M. Jacques Normand’s Collection IV. The Sirocco in the Oasis 34 Musée du Louvre V. An Arab Fantasia 40 M. Sarlin’s Collection VI. Egyptian Women on the Bank of the Nile 50 Musée du Louvre VII. Hunting with the Falcon 60 Musée du Louvre VIII. Halt of Horsemen 70 Musée du Louvre I.--THE FIRST STEPS Eugène-Samuel-Auguste Fromentin-Dupeux was born at La Rochelle on the twenty-fourth of October, 1820. His family was a very old one and held in high honour throughout Aunis and Saintonge.