American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 475
by making one that revolves with the sun, so thatthe model or drapery will always have the same horizontal direction of the suns rays uponit. The house is turned by a windlass, beside which the painters easel is placed. Verestchaginhas painted some striking snow scenes, which were lately exhibited… … Shepperton Church. Drawn by Mozart. Shipka ! with the sentinel freezing to death in the snow. A famous snow picture is Meissoniers1814, which was lately sold in Paris for one hundred thousand dollars, and which representsthe repulsed Emperor on his white horse gloomily riding through the snow-ruts,…
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