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 293
of Watteau, Lancret,Oudry, and others. Or else, loose sheets nailed on the wall, in acorner of the studio, they were carelessly kept by the artist as asouvenir, the first sketch for a canvas—as a document, a source for acomposition, a Book of Truth. They hardly ever left the painters,unless they… … f-l W a.o < tn < aoo w>o u K H H 0^ O Q HCO H> EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ART IN FRANCE 149 who made drawings a branch of commerce for the artist, who launchedthem among the public, who made them worth money and fashionable.The sheets of paper on which he scattered his studies and…
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