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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 308

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arts; its pleas-ant slightness and plausible dexterity divert thegenius of the painter from its proper aims, andwithdraw the attention of the public from excellenceof higher claim. On the other hand, the sameauthority, who admitted that a modern Frenchlandscape could be painted with a pail of… … VIGEE LE BRUN. — PORTJL\IT OF A BOY IN RED. Oallertes fltncteen to JLvQcnt^^txoo 211 dries pretty nearly to its own fancy, slops overevery outline, clots in every shade, etc., whereasthe old masters could lay, with unerring precisionof tone and equality of depth, the absolute tint theywanted…

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