The same unity of vision is to be noted in all his sixteen pictures at the Louvre. [Illustration: PLATE XLIX.—JEAN-BAPTISTE CAMILLE COROT (1796-1875) No. 2801.—THE DELL (Le Vallon, avec des paysannes et une vache) A grass-covered hill descends from the horizon line on the left to the right-hand bottom corner of the picture. A low hedge with a clump of trees in the centre divides the grassy plot from the field rising beyond towards the horizon-line, from which projects a church in the far distance. The sun is behind the trees, which throw a deep shadow on the dale. A cow occupies the centre of the foreground. To the left a group of three peasant women and a child; to the right a farm labourer. Signed on left:—“COROT.” Painted in oil on canvas. 1 ft. 1¾ in. × 1 ft. 9¼ in. (0·35 × 0·54.)] C. TROYON This oneness of inanimate and animate nature is less completely realised in the art of Constant Troyon (1810-1865), who, having been trained as a porcelain-painter, was subsequently attracted by the romanticism of Dupré, but followed such Dutch masters as Paul Potter in subordinating the landscape to the cattle. It is for this reason that Troyon is known to the public as a “cattle-painter” rather than as a landscape painter. At the same time, he was a close observer of the effects of light on fields and meadows, which he rendered with a skill only rivalled by the solidity, the suggestion of weight and movement, the well-accentuated forms and sinuosities of his cattle. The huge canvas _Oxen going to Work_ (No. 889) is an unrivalled achievement of its kind—a piece of realism that is not without poetry and grandeur. Next to it in importance ranks the _Return to the Farm_ (No. 890). Among the eleven Troyons (Nos. 2906-2916) of the Thomy Thiéry Bequest, the _Morning_ (No. 2909) strikes a more cheerful and hopeful note than is this artist’s wont. Another artist of this group, who devoted himself almost exclusively to the painting of sheep, is Charles Jacque (1813-1894), from whose brush the Louvre owns the _Flock of Sheep in a Landscape_ (No. 430A), a characteristic work of unusually large dimensions. J. DUPRÉ