Great masters of Dutch and Flemish painting (1909)
Bode, Wilhelm von, 1845-1929, Clarke, Margaret L · London : Duckworth and co.; New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 278
est love he occupied himself with the soul of theanimal, and what he saw he rendered with untiring industryand unparalleled fidelity. With his unrivalled exactitudein depicting animal life, in which he is devoid of anysecondary intention, and makes no attempt to evoke anyparticular mood, Potters… … PAUL POTTER 205 of his four-footed friends in the same masterly manner as theGreek sculptors formed the human body. Like the Greeks,who left to their physicians disputes about the numberof a mans ribs, his starting-point is not anatomy, but hedelineates what he sees in nature with his own eyes.…
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