An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth (1903)
Strange, Thomas Arthur · London, The author · leaf 202
fe. The one drewand the other wrote of imaginary nymphsand swains, and described a kind ofimpossible pastoral, a rural life led bythose opposites of rural simplicity, peopleof fashion and rank. Watteaus shepherd-esses, nay, his very sheep, are coquet ; yethe avoided the glare and clinquant of… … Design for Decorative Panel. m 1!)4 Reoenc}-. WATTEAU. First Quarter iSth Century.
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