Ideals of life in France, or, How the great painters portray woman in French art : two hundred and twenty-five copper-plates made in Paris especially for this work by Goupil & Co., from oil-paintings and drawings : with essays on art in France (1890)
Sheldon, George William, 1843-1914 · New York : Appleton · leaf 122
WOMAN IN FRENCH ART 33 truly well that aerial vocations are rare. If you have the unhappiness to possess wings, hide them. I know well that wings are not unusual in kitchens, but they are wings ol woodcock ; and then, I am afraid of angels who do cooking. 1 have seen them sometimes, and I have… … Paris — which, in a long editorial arti- D G. Dubufe : Music and Dancing. cle, proceeded to remind the founder of the Esprit de la Femme that somebody did the cooking for her, and that, unless she was rich enough to employ a chef and scullions, and to take thus her revenge on the tyranny of the…
Painting, French -- 19th century · Women in art
Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.
