Muther, Richard, 1860-1909 · London : J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 82
HISTORICAL POSITION OF ART ON THE CONTINENT 57 onTthe model of Watteaus style, to depict the life of the fashionableworld, none approached the delicacy of that national genius. Lancrefand Pater followed him, but more roughly, more soberly, more drily. … WATTEAU. LA PARTIE CARRIE. Lancret in his whole conception, compared with Watteau, is a homely,often a somewhat cumbrous journeyman ; Pater, an artist of greaterelegance, has the fickleness of the virtuoso. Both in conviction and inart they lacked that poetic, glorifying breath which pervades…
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