e picture gains decided-ly in its narration. Bastien-Lepage, who was solittle attuned to the academic, paints an annuncia-tion with a greater sense of fact than is usual in thesubject. The scene was one which particularlywooed his poetic fancy. He contested the Prix deRome in 1875 with a painting… … Courtesy of M. Knoedler &r Co. THE DECLARATION BY BARON LEYS A more interesting contrast to the tendenciesrepresented by the Frenchman could hardly be pre-.sented than the notable example of the art of theBelgian baron, Jean Auguste Henri Leys, the mas-ter of Alma Tadema, a painter whom fortune…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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