Great pictures, as seen and described by famous writers (1899)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, ed. and tr · New York : Dodd, Mead and Company · leaf 355
he master of sweet serenity andtender Paradises, whose work may be likened to the ElysianField of Passion ! Watteau, the melancholy enchanterwho has made nature sigh so heavily in his autumn woods,full of regret around dreamful pleasure! Watteau, thePensieroso of the Regency ; Fragonard, the little… … CORESUS AND CALLIRHOE 263 are going to play at Fragonards and to put on his palettethe hues of their butterfly wings. Fragonard is the bold narrator, the gallant amoroso, therogue with Gallic malice, nearly Italian in genius butFrench in spirit \ the man of foreshortened mythology androguish…
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