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See also:GLEYRE, MARC See also:CHARLES See also:GABRIEL (1806-1874) , See also:French painter, of Swiss origin, was See also:born at Chevilly in the See also:canton of See also:Vaud on the 2nd of May 18o6. His See also:father and See also:mother died while he was yet a boy of some eight or nine years of See also:age; and he was brought up by an See also:uncle at See also:Lyons, who sent him to the See also:industrial school of that See also:city. Going up to See also:Paris a lad of
seventeen or nineteen, he spent four years in See also:close See also:artistic study— with a welcome that shows that the mother's See also:heart thinks less of the repentance than of the return; "See also:Ruth and Boaz"; " Ulysses and See also:Nausicaa "; " See also:Hercules at the feet of Omphale "; the " See also:Young Athenian," or, as it is popularly called, " See also:Sappho "; " See also:Minerva and the See also:Nymphs"; "See also:Venus rra bnpos "; " See also:Daphnis and Chloe"; and "Love and the Parcae." Nor must it be omitted that he See also:left a considerable number of drawings and See also:water-See also:colours, and that we are indebted to him for a number of portraits, among which is the sad See also:face of See also:Heine, engraved in the Revue See also:des deux mondes for See also:April 1852. In See also:Clement's See also:catalogue of his See also:works there are 683 entries, including sketches arid studies.
See Fritz See also:Berthoud in Bibliotheque universelle de Geneve (1874); See also:Albert de Montet, See also:Diet. biographique des Genevois et des Vaudois (1877) ; and See also:Vie de Charles Gleyre (1877), written by his friend, Charles Clement, and illustrated by 3o plates from his works.
in See also:Hersent's studio, in Suisse's See also:academy, in the galleries of the Louvre. To this See also:period of laborious application succeeded four years of meditative inactivity in See also:Italy, where he became acquainted with See also:Horace See also:Vernet and See also:Leopold See also:Robert; and six years more were consumed in adventurous wanderings in See also:Greece, See also:Egypt, See also:Nubia and See also:Syria. At See also:Cairo he was attacked with ophthalmia, and in the See also:Lebanon he was struck down by See also:fever; and he returned to Lyons in shattered See also:health. On his recovery he proceeded to Paris, and, fixing his modest studio in the See also:rue de Universite, began carefully to See also:work out the conceptions which had been slowly shaping themselves in his mind. Mention is made of two decorative panels—" See also:Diana leaving the See also:Bath," and a " Young Nubian "—as almost the first fruits of his See also:genius; but these did not attract public See also:attention till See also:long after, and the See also:painting by which he practically opened his artistic career was the " Apocalyptic See also:Vision of St See also:John," sent to the See also:Salon of 184o. This was followed in 1843 by " Evening," which at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time received a See also:medal of the second class, and afterwards became widely popular under the See also:title of the Lost Illusions. It represents a poet seated on the See also:bank of a See also:river, with drooping See also:head and wearied See also:frame, letting his See also:lyre slip from a careless See also:hand, and gazing sadly at a See also:bright See also:company of maidens whose See also:song is slowly dying from his See also:ear as their See also:boat is See also:borne slowly from his sight.
In spite of the success which attended these first ventures, Gleyre retired from public competition, and spent the See also:rest of his See also:life in quiet devotion to his own artistic ideals, neither seeking the easy See also:applause of the See also:crowd, nor turning his See also:art into a means of aggrandizement; and See also:wealth. After 1845, when he exhibited the " Separation of the Apostles," he contributed nothing to the Salon except the " See also:Dance of the Bacchantes " in 1849. Yet he laboured steadily and was abundantly productive. He had an " See also:infinite capacity of taking pains," and when asked by what method he attained to such marvellous perfection of workman-See also:ship, he would reply, " En y pensant toujours." A long See also:series of years often intervened between the first conception of a piece and its embodiment, and years not unfrequently between the first and the final See also:stage of the embodiment itself. A landscape was apparently finished; even his See also:fellow artists would consider it done; Gleyre alone was conscious that he had not found his See also:sky." Happily for French art this high-toned laboriousness became influential on a large number of Gleyre's younger contemporaries; for when See also:Delaroche gave up his studio of instruction he recommended his pupils to apply to Gleyre, who at once agreed to give them lessons twice a See also:week, and characteristically refused to take any See also:fee or See also:reward. By See also:instinct and principle he was a confirmed celibate: " See also:Fortune, See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent, health, —he had everything; but he was married," was his lamentation over a friend. Though he lived in almost See also:complete retirement from public life, he took a keen See also:interest in politics, and was a voracious reader of See also:political See also:journals. For a time, indeed, under See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis Philippe, his studio had been the See also:rendezvous of a sort of liberal See also:club. To the last—amid all the disasters that befell his See also:country—he was hopeful of the future, " la raison finira bien See also:par avoir raison." It was while on a visit to the Retrospective See also:Exhibition, opened on behalf of the exiles from See also:Alsace and See also:Lorraine, that he died suddenly on the 5th of May 1874.
End of Article: GLEYRE, MARC CHARLES GABRIEL (1806-1874)
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