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 386
suade his lady-love to accom-pany him on the wonder-boat, and now assisting theloving couples to embark. But most of them swarmaround the bark itself. Some are pulling up the sails,some weighing anchor, and a whole garland of them arein the air as high as the topmast, swinging about in arevel of… … Salle Baru 295 cupids. If they have an esprit, a fairylike vivacityhardly compatible with baby angels, they have at thesame time too refined a delicacy, too tender a spiritu-ality to be Cupids, per se. They are the quintessenceof Watteaus art. In them is seen perhaps moreplainly than anywhere else,…
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