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The history of modern painting (1907)

Muther, Richard, 1860-1909 · London : J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 266

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one day when he and his nursewere taking a walk near the lunatic as3lum at Charenton. And he wasright. Delacroix was another of the pupils who had grown up in Guerins studio,but he became the latters antipode. Even in his student years he took … <l a THE GENERATION OF 1830 229 counsel, not of the antique, but of Rubens and Veronese ; and when Gericaultwas painting his Raft of the Medusa, Delacroix belonged to the little bandof enthusiastic admirers which gathered round the young master. He servedas model for the half-submerged man to…

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