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The art of the Louvre, containing a brief history of the palace and of its collection of paintings, as well as descriptions and criticism of many of the principal pictures and their artists (1905)

Potter, Mary Knight, d. 1915 · Boston, L.C. Page & company · leaf 216

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nd must have been extraordi-narilv realistic as likenesses. His touch is free, hisdraughtsmanship able, his colour brilliantly silvery, pureand transparent except where the shadow-tones havegrown too dark owing to an impure medium. Amonghis works here are some of the very best that he pro-duced.… … ©ranbe ©alette 163 Port Royal in grateful remembrance of what he regardedas the miraculous cure of his daughter in answer to themother superiors prayers. The canvas shows the nunin the midst of these devotions. Sitting in a wide, lowchair with her feet resting on a broad footstool in frontof her,…

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