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 354
speak were it not that therules of his order enjoin silence. And that similitude of life is also most pro-nounced in the bust of Madame de Serilly, who,some twelve years after sitting to the sculptor, wascondemned to death during the Reign of Terror,and only escaped the guillotine on the plea that… … HOUDON. — MARBLE BUST OF M.\DAiIE DE SERILLY. :Bron3e5, /IDarbles, poixelain, etc* 249 Each of these busts is free from that dull loaf-sugar-like surface so common in modern sculpture, theskin texture being polished to resemble the glossof the human nude. No doubt many will reservetheir greatest…
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