Great pictures, as seen and described by famous writers (1899)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, ed. and tr · New York : Dodd, Mead and Company · leaf 347
uld fetch a fabulous sum.Then is it a beautiful picture ? By no means. Does itdeserve the importance attached to it ? Incontestably.Then is Paul Potter a very great painter ? Very great.Does it follow that he really does paint as well as is com-monly supposed ? Not exactly. That is a… … THE BULL 257 anyone dared to let the truth be heard, he would speak verynearly as follows : The reputation of the picture is very much exag-gerated and at the same time very legitimate j it is contra-dictory. It is considered as an incomparable specimen ofpainting, and that is a mistake. People…
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