Blanc, Charles, 1813-1882 · New York : Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge [Mass.] : Riverside Press · leaf 260
style in its imita-tion, because its truth is a typical truth, that is tosay, it is a personification of the higher bourgeoisieof our times, a class strong, intelligent, and tenacious,disdainful of what is below and above it, and inwhich the pride of the theorist is mingled with the PAINTING. 233… … BERTIN. BY INGRES. the piercing eye, the slight disorder of the hair, thetaper fingers of the puffy hands, but even by thefolds of the vest and coat, whose optical physiognomycompletes the moral physiognomy of the portrait. 2 34 PAINTING. The Physiognomy. There is in the individual ageneral truth…
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