Great pictures, as seen and described by famous writers (1899)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, ed. and tr · New York : Dodd, Mead and Company · leaf 67
u is not theantique grace — a rigid and solid charm, the perfection ofthe marble of a Galatea, the entirely plastic and the materialglory of a Venus. Grace with Watteau is grace. It isthat nothing that invests a woman with an attraction, acoquetry, a more than physical beauty. It is that… … LEMBARQUEMENT POUR i/lLE DE CYTHERE 39 nonchalance, the cadences of pose, the pretty air of profilesbending over the scales of love (gammes damour), the re-ceding curves of the bosom, the serpentine lines and undu-lations, the suppleness of the female body, the play ofslender fingers on the handle…
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