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Exposition universelle, 1900 : the chefs-d'uvre (1900)

Walton, William, 1843-1915, Champier, Victor, b. 1851, Saglio, André, b. 1869, Exposition universelle internationale de 1900 (Paris, France) · Philadelphia : G. Barrie & Son · leaf 128

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scene—the Mother and the Son, and the files of fair-faced youngangels rising on each side of her high into the tender light. But Cupid, singular and plural in number, is M. Bouguereausfavorite subject, and concerning one of his peculiar versions of Erosit is difficult to speak well. The leering,… … CONTEMPORARY ART ji infant, so little and helpless and appealing in his mendacity that thepoet takes him in his arms, so very little that his mother appealedto the Fates to know if he would ever grow out of babyhood.Around this too big and far too knowing youth, this painter gathersa group of very…

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