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 430
earful head with its bulging eyesfrom which the terror still glares. Connecting head andbody are the dripping pools of blood. So realistically horrible is this picture that womenhave fainted on seeing it. The colour-scheme is rich,vivid, the composition masterly, the drawing superb.Whether such a… … EXECUTION WITHOUT JUDGMENTBy Regnault Salle t>enrf HI* 333 Though a wonderful portrait-painter, his forceful, puis-sant, tumultuous nature expressed itself with a perfectfever of abandonment in scenes of carnage, of riotouscontortions, of sinister meaning, of all things out of thecommonplace.…
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