American painters : with one hundred and four examples of their work engraved on wood (1881)
Sheldon, George William, 1843-1914 · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 249
not try to reach the point that Meissonier does. If he carried technicalqualities so far he would injure his pictures. Corot, Rousseau, Diaz, and Daubigny, are all men of one idea. Diaz, forexample, paints forever the forest of Fontainebleau. He is a perpetual copyistof himself. Now, we dont care… … THOMAS MOB AN. 127 in the Cottier Collection. The work is bad in drawing—it is not drawing atall—and certainly it cannot be called color. It has some tone, to be sure, justas black-and-white may have tone ; but there is in it no quality that demandeda canvas of that size. It is a small conception…
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