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HOW TO SHOW PICTURES TO CHILDREN
If we cannot get hold of reproductions of good animal art, we can at least find photographs direct from life, and these are far better than copies of poor paintings, especially crudely colored lithographs. A poor color print is likely to be flat and wooden in effect, while the camera reproduces the delicate gradations of black and white which show the modeling of the body. Good magazine illustrations supply us with much excellent material. The source of the picture is of little consequence, so long as we see to it that the animal represented is true to life.
Reference Books:—
- John Van Dyke. Studies in Pictures. Chapter on the “Animal in Art.”
- Sir Walter Gilbey. Animal Painters of England. London, 1900.
- Cosmo Monkhouse. Works of Sir Edwin Landseer, with a History of his Art Life.
- Estelle M. Hurll. Landseer. In the Riverside Art Series.
- René Peyrol. Rosa Bonheur: Her Life and Work. London, 1889.
- Marius Vachon. Henriette Ronner, the Painter of Cat Life and Cat Character. Translated by Clara Bell, 1895.
- Max Rooses. Dutch Painters of the Nineteenth Century. Chapter on Henrietta Ronner. London, 1898.
List of Animal Pictures
Child with animal pet.
| Hoecker. | Girl with Cat. (Dutch child with quaint cap.) | |
| Velasquez. | Prince Baltasar Carlos on Pony. Madrid Gallery, | |
Prince Baltasar Carlos (with hunting dogs). Madrid Gallery.
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| Reynolds. | Miss Bowles (and spaniel). Wallace Collection, London.
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