French art, classic and contemporary, painting and sculpture (1901)
Brownell, W. C. (William Crary), 1851-1928 · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 273
am, his toilettes of Venus, his fa9ade ornamentations, hisapplied sculpture, in a word, that his true talent hes. Afterhim it is natural that we should have a reversion to quasi-severity and imitation of the antique—just as David succeededto the Louis Quinze pictorial riot—and that the French… … PUBLIC ..lr!«ART CLASSIC SCULPTURE Greek inspiration has something Swiss about it, one may-say—he was a Genevan—though his figures were simpleand largely treated. He had a keen sense for the feminineelement—the eivig Weibliche—and expressed it plasticallywith a zest approaching gusto. Yet his…
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