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 98
he hunting-dogs of Louis XIV and did it in the grand styleof the time, they provide an admirable opportunityfor a decision of that knotty problem — is thepleasure taken by so many in paintings of this classaesthetic or gustatory ? They were evidently greatlyto the taste of Lord Hertford, and yet he… … (Galleries Mine to twelve 71 anticipation. No doubt the proper place for suchpictures is the dining-room, and that was whyMadame de Pompadour requisitioned the servicesof Oudry for the decoration of that apartment inher Chateau of Bellevue. As there are no more pictures on the groundfloor of…
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