Inside Out Library · Explore

American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)

Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 586

An illustration from American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects, 1889, leaf 586
uch still-life rather than of a human being with animmortal soul. In elaborating his scheme of color, Mr. Duveneck (and, it may be added,Mr. Chase also, but not to the same extent) illustrated the truth of Rousseaus dictum aboutfinish, presenting a central and absorbing object toward which the eye… … b ta !3 H i> w P o n < M PM a «i g ffi ^ 00 >- £ m c£ cs D g ^H P a <; m Ph a AMERICAN ART 98; of color. Considered in its lesser aspect also, the representation exemplified the law insistedupon by the celebrated Frenchman; the page was the important feature of Duvenecks storyin its…

Art · Artists

Internet Archive · Smithsonian Libraries · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects

More like this