Pictures and their painters; the history of painting (1907)
Bryant, Lorinda Munson, 1855- · New York: John Lane Co. · leaf 357
thought to teach a moi-al thiough his subjects,but, unlike the great English satirist, hi.s sentimentalism ijie- B^S FRExNCH PAINTING \entecl him from calling a spade a spade, so his picture lessonsbecame mere story-telling pictures of an exaggerated, bom-bastic character. ¥l*e-Psrttiert Cnr^e… … -Greuze, Louvre, Paris. of truth that would rejjresent a moral lesson. When the.secanvases were exhibited in the Salon they were received withthe greatest enthusiasm by the French people, but, no doubt,the change of subject from the formal court scene and Arcadiangroves, that had been the themes of…
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