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 377
ery picture we have ever seen of tins great master s, whether Italian in its sublimebeauty, or Flemish in its flat and fertile simplicity^ i)leases, by the means of that delightful contrast, ofwhich Hagedorn speaks so eloquently, and which is, to our minds, the most scientific of symmetries.… … site little Ford cxliibited at the Louvre), the long and monotonous succession of woolly hind-quarters is cleverly broken in upon by a shepherd with his crook, or by the winding route taken bytwo or three cows on the opposite bank. A country girl on horseback often gives a graceful, pyramidalform…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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