Fifty years of modern painting, Corot to Sargent (1908)
Phythian, John Ernest, 1858- · London, G. Richards · leaf 75
r such subjects as the Horatii takingthe oath, Brutus looking at the bodies of his sons after thedeath-sentence had been executed upon them, and the rapeof the Sabines. The Parisians of the Revolution linkedthese subjects, taken from the early history of Rome, withtheir own struggle for freedom ;… … THE IMPRESSIONISTS AND THEIR ALLIES 55 portraiture had something of Roman severity, and hisMadame Recamier wears a simple, classical dress, has herhair bound in a fillet, and reclines on a couch of classical de-sign, with a classical candelabrum by it. An art that whileleaning upon the past, took…
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