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Marc Charles Gabriel Gleyre - LoveToKnow 1911 (513 words) |
 | MARC CHARLES GABRIEL GLEYRE (1806-1874), French painter, of Swiss origin, was born at Chevilly in the canton of Vaud on the 2nd of May 1806. |
| It represents a poet seated on the bank of a river, with drooping head and wearied frame, letting his lyre slip from a careless hand, and gazing sadly at a bright company of maidens whose song is slowly dying from his ear as their boat is borne slowly from his sight. |
| In spite of the success which attended these first ventures, Gleyre retired from public competition, and spent the rest of his life in quiet devotion to his own artistic ideals, neither seeking the easy applause of the crowd, nor turning his art into a means of aggrandizement and wealth. |
| Gleyre Paintings Reproduction and Biography (608 words) |
| Gleyre was a French painter of Swiss origin, was born at Chevilly in the canton of Vaud on the 2nd of May 1806. |
| At Cairo Gleyre was attacked with ophthalmia, and in Lebanon he was struck down by fever. |
| Though Gleyre lived in almost complete retirement from public life, he took a keen interest in politics, and was a voracious reader of political journals. |
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