Great pictures, as seen and described by famous writers (1899)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, ed. and tr · New York : Dodd, Mead and Company · leaf 265
ne has known so well as Velasquez howto paint the gentleman with such superb familiarity, and,so to speak, as equal to equal. He is by no means a poor,embarrassed artist who only sees his models while they areposing and has never lived with them. He follows them inthe privacy of the royal… … THE SURRENDER OF BREDA 193 themselves, and even more than they, he has les grandes etles petites entrees.1 The nobility of Spain having Velasquezfor a portrait-painter could not say, like the lion of thefable : Ah ! if the lions only knew how to paint. Velasquez takes his place naturally between…
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