Catalogue of works of art ... also views of the summer and winter homes (1884)
Bement, William B, Memorial Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.) · Philadelphia, Pa. : Commissioners of Fairmount Park · leaf 492
m anopportunity to show their skill in the actual imitation of objects. Every detail iswrought to the highesl degree of perfection of which mere pigments are capable.Every line, every spot of Light, every patch of shade, every petal of a flower,every roughness on an orange-skin, has been made the… … Fruit-piece. R S DUNNING. A rich and decorative canvas, with fruit arranged to produce the brilliancy ofa flower-piece. It is not mere surface-painting, for the fruit has pulp, and juice,and texture: ones mouth waters as he looks at it. The Dutch and Flemishpainters, though they painted less…
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