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The art of the great masters, as exemplified by drawings in the collection of Émile Wauters, membre de l'Académie royale de Belgique (1913)

Lees, George Frederic William, 1872-, Wauters, Émile, 1846-1933 · London : S. Low, Marston & co. ltd. · leaf 158

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, and how much he couldexpress in a few lines! In thislittle sketch of a young womanholding a chalice (Fig. 84) his penhas merely, as it were, caressedthe paper. The line is flexible anddelicate; nowhere has it gone as-tray. Everything is in its place, andthe face is charming in its orrace.The… … /T>\ A Woman with a Chalice.By .A.lt.ert Durer Albertina, is also a good example Fg. §4 of his pen-and-ink work. But here is a work of even greaterrarity. It is a little page of studies in liquid sanguine, executed with a brush—a study with a triple effect oflight and, in the left-hand corner,…

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