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...ordinary to the king, died of pneumonia. His fame slipped away, his name was lost. His scattered paintings, only a few of them signed, and all of them showing the influence of the great Caravaggio, were attributed to Caravaggio's followers and other artists: the brothers Le Nain, Vermeer, the obscure 17th Century Antoine de Latour and the 18th Century Maurice Quentin de la Tour...
After eight hours at Hebron, the Marvita moved downshore to Nutak, then on to the Eskimo capital at Nain. Before the final count at Battle Harbour next month, she would stop at 37 Labrador hamlets hugging 800 miles of rugged coastline...
Along the Labrador Coast from Battle Harbor to Nain, tiny settlements lie huddled at the foot of towering, rocky cliffs. Several weatherbeaten shacks, a pier or two, boats and nets hung up to dry, comprise the weary picture. Almost no motion is apparent. Everywhere are rocks and mosquitoes and marshes extending as far as the eye can see. And smothering the scene like a heavy blanket is the smell of drying and decaying fish. For it is summer and the people who cling precariously to the shoreline are codfishing for existence...
Greenaway* vignette, Eugeène Berman's wild, sad, subtle Tobias and the Angel (1938)† and the likewise tattered Peasants in Front of a House by Louis Le Nain...