Excerpt from Masterpieces of the World's Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16: The Great Authors of the World With Their Master Productions Marcel had been working for the last five or six years at that famous picture, which he stated was to represent the pas sage Of the Red Sea; and for the last five or six years this masterpiece Of color had been obstinately rejected by the jury. Indeed, what with going backward and forward between the artist's studio and the museum, the museum and the artist's studio, the picture knew its way SO well that, had it been put on castors, it could easily have made its way to the Louvre: Marcel, who had ten times altered and retouched this canvas from top to bottom, attributed to personal enmity on the part of the members Of the jury the ostracism which annually turned it away from the Salon Carre; and in abandoned moments he had composed, in honor of the Cerberus of the Academy, a little dictionary of abusive terms, adorned with ferociously bitter illustrations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.