Muther, Richard, 1860-1909 · London : J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 333
^ and voluptuousness mi.xed, athing pieced together out of whitebodies, purple streams of blood, andbrown backgrounds. Here, the fa-vourite Sultana contemplates thesevered head of her rival, whichstares at her out of its glassy ejes ;there, eunuchs are making ready to,~ . „ . . strangle a woman… … THE POST-ROMANTIC GENERATION 295 genius, powerful in composition,of Benjamin Constant, celebratesits triumphs. Yet, notwithstanding all themeans of allurement furnishedby such themes, these paintingsalmost invariably fail to producethe anticipated effect. Not thatit is the brutality of the…
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