Manet and the French impressionists: Pissarro--Claude Monet--Sisley--Renoir--Berthe Morisot--Cézanne--Guillaumin (1910)
Duret, Théodore, 1838-1927, Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford), tr · Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott company · leaf 52
ll those pictures, fromthe Renaissance onwards, into which artists have introduced strik-ing or fantastic details if the princes, who were in former times thesole patrons of art, had shown the same lack of intelligence as theParisians of 1865. I have never been able to reflect on the indignation… … THE OLYMPIA 27 high altar of the cathedral where bishops and cardinals are offici-ating. Henry IV., only just visible, is relegated to a gallery inthe background, while the two animals, as though they were ofprincipal importance, lord it in the foreground. I imagine thatthese dogs belonged to Henry…
