The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 280
FIG. 503.—VOLTAIRE.HOUDON. (Theatre Franfais, Paris.) patriotic subjects (by which we mayunderstand subjects not taken fromPlutarch) should be forbidden to artists.The only branch of art which con-tinued to produce masterpieces in eigh-teenth-century France was portraiture.The pastellist La Tour… … FIG. 504.—DIANA.HOUDON. (The Louvre.) haps a little monotonous in his grace,has left us many delicious portraits ofdainty, be-rouged womanhood (Fi,g.498). Tocque, a profounder and morelearned artist, was the author of one of i - * %jSk f 1 [1 L 1 ^B^B^^ W J FIG. 505.—BACCHANALS.CLODION. (Edmond de…
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