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 324
d woods and a frowningsky broken by lurid streaks of light. Such is the generalscheme of composition. Not largely different from theconventionally prescribed plan of treatment of the subject,but so vivified, so realized by the mind of the genius thatexecuted it, that the very theme itself seems… … h £ W £ s rt 3Q s H 0 >i H pq £ W Salon Carre 249 back to lifting the shoulders of the Saviour, is in light,his head and neck, however, enveloped in the shadowthat covers his burden. Johns face, raised and gazingat Mary is thrown into relief, the shadow sweeping overhim from his neck down. A…
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