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 482
on of his own inability toimprove him. In 1772 we find David contending for the Roman prize of painting. But his genius was not yet J. LOUIS DAVID. m matured, and he had, moreover, for his judges the very tribunal he was one day destined to overthrow.He sustained in consequence two successive… … to the sense of the injustice of his judges. Kelief, however, often comes from a quarter whence it isleast expected. Inscrutable are the ways of Providence !—the guardian angel of David was an opera-dancer ! The celebrated Guimard, at that time the idol of Paris, who held in subjection all…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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