Muther, Richard, 1860-1909 · London : J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 314
and were much astonished to hear that the old gardeners assistant,as they took him to be, sitting on the grass and mending shoes or old kettles,was Couture. The news of his death in 1879 caused general astonishment;it was as if one long buried had come to life again. It had meanwhile becomeevident… … JUSTE-MILIEU 277 the formulae of idealism. The work is undoubtedly very noble in colouring,but what would not Delacroix have made of such a theme ! or Rubens,indeed, whose Flemish Kermesse Jiangs not far from it in the Louvre.Coutures figures have only absolute beauty, nothing individual; far…
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