John Cassell's Art treasures exhibition: containing engravings of the principal masterpieces of the English, Dutch, Flemish, French, and German schools (1858)
Cassell, John, 1817-1865 · London, W. Kent and co. · leaf 269
Iniman lieart, without a delicate appreciation of the motives wliich iiitiuuiiee ami actuate that com.licated j)iece of machinery—the human mind, the painter could never liave elaborated a composition so[)erfect in all its details, or have described, in the varying expression of the several faces,… … harmony of the tints, and the exquisite management of the liglit. A celebrated connoisseur, inhis criticism of this chef-iV(tuvre^ remarks :— The scene of this picture is shaded by a wide Ijranchingtree, and by the leafy stalks ofthe hop plant climbing nj) the poles. The light steals through…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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