The art of the Wallace Collection, including an account of its founders, a description of the pictures, and a survey of the chief exhibits in the galleries devoted to objects of art and arms and armour (1913)
Shelley, Henry C. (Henry Charles) · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 172
lustrations of his amazing fertility as animprovisator; the solitary canvas by Charles Lan-delle, An Armenian Woman, has a far morenoble style. Leon Gerome is responsible for threepictures— The Draught Players, An ArabSoldier, and The Guard of the Harem — whichare admirably typical of his frigid… … ffrencb auD JSrtttsb Hrt 123 others — On the Nile, Palm Trees, and AScene on the Nile — speak eloquently of his lovefor Egypt, a passion which led him to describe him-self as Marhilhat the Egyptian. Alexandre G. Decamps was one of the first tosuccumb to the spell of the East, and from abouthis…
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