The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 71
Painting, Girardon died in 1715—the very daythat Louis XIV. expired. The four principal figures of the Baths of JpoUo atVersailles, the Rape of Proserpine, the equestrian statueof Louis the Great in the place Vendome, and the Mau-soleum of Cardinal de Richelieu, of which Le Brun, it issaid,… … |r v?v tn=: >>5( TCf tTT j(0)Ujr:^r^^i^ ;iri:iii n Himscl- JOUVENET. GRANDEUR; energy of composition^ an elegant mannerof distributing his draperies, correctness of design^ andfreedom of pencil, are the principal qualities for whichJouvenet, as an artist, is distinguished. His merit was…
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