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Painting in France, after the decline of classicism. An essay (1901)

Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown · leaf 100

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simplicity of the dress and attitude, provehow far from the artists thoughts were the ideas ofbeauty and of grace. Now, there is a theory, whichwe ought to miss no opportunity of resisting (andthe present is such an opportunity), that the soleprovince of the art of painting is the beautiful. Byits… … THE LITTLE BEGGAR-GIRL. Henriette Browne. 81 exclusive worship of the beautiful. The province ofart includes all visible beauty, but it includes muchmore. Whatever appeals to our highest and bestfeelings, is legitimate material for a painter, and Hen-riette Browne has already, on several occasions,…

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