Painters and sculptors : a second series of Old masters and new (1907)
Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919 · New York : Duffield · leaf 118
roduced. Watteau was sickly, restless, morbid,unhappy, and while he learned his trade from thegood-humoured giant of Antwerp, and even found inhis works the type of his own compositions, he hadnone of that masters jovial realism and aboundingvigour. Life as it was, was hateful to him, and thereal… … PAINTERS OF THE MODE 57 without the eating, where love was only a pretty imi-tation, and there was nothing more important todo than to sit under graceful trees or dance alanguid minuet—far from him the mad whirl androbust gaiety of Rubenss Rondo. His men arehabited in a dress reminiscent of the…
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