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 262
hey are. Had the Marquis of Hertford admired the LouisQuatorze style of art this would have been thegallery for the display of such specimens as he ac-quired, but the distinctive painters of that schoolare either not represented or are in evidence onlyin that phase of their work which is symbolical… … o HH I—t X (XI I—IP o h-1 Galleries Seventeen an^ Bigbteen i8i One picture, too, by Hyacinthe Rigaud, sometimescalled the Van Dyck of France, seems to havebeen sufficient for Lord Hertford. This * Portraitof Cardinal Fleury is perhaps more mellow thanusual, but is a characteristic example of the…
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