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. (1914)
Shelley, Henry C. (Henry Charles) · London : Simpkin · leaf 270
anhe had intended owing to the wishes of the patronfor whom it was painted. Notwithstanding itsnumerous figures, this is a fine composition, and theabsence of high colours gives it a mellow effect.A careful inventory of the picture was given byM. Burger in the following terms: It represents aforest… … Galleries Seventeen an& JElabteen 187 to the spectator. On the second plane of the clear-ing two other couples are losing themselves in theintricacies of the wood. The great forest fills theright corner, but in front of the trees, in a soft half-shadow, is a principal group; they are, for…
Wallace Collection (Musical group) · Painting · Art objects
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