Famous paintings as seen and described by famous writers / edited and translated by Esther Singleton (1909)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, Morse, Alice C. (Alice Cordelia), b. 1862, binding designer · New York : Dodd, Mead & Co · leaf 112
on the banks of the Tiber, sketchinga landscape that pleased him, and I have met him with hishandkerchief filled with stones, moss or flowers which hecarried home to paint after nature. Vigneul-Marville addsthat one day he was bold enough to ask Poussin by whatmeans he had reached perfection. And… … !>>■ I .N 1 \. INNOCENT X. 77 flowers. Are we then so far removed from the stones andmoss that Poussin endeavoured to render with his brush ?Nature so untiringly interrogated and scrutinized in thesmallest details, was, in reality, the instructor of Velasquez.He remained her attentive,…
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