Modern french masters; a series of biographical and critical reviews by American artists (1896)
Van Dyke, John Charles, 1856-1932 ed · New York, The Century co. · leaf 166
e about, and upon which he might not inaptly place themotto, Omne ignotum pro magnifico. It has been stated by some lovers of the vague that Meis-sonier was a mere technical machine, portraying facts withwonderful skill and fidelity, but with an utter lack of poeticalfeehng. I am willing to grant… … napoleon — 1S14. BY MEISSONIER JEAN-LOUIS-ERNEST MEISSONIER 99 indefinable something, or lack of something, left for the imagi-nation to supply, we will find much of this so-called poetry inworks void of some of the elementary principles of art. Whenart, as in a Meissonier, is expressed obediently…
Painters -- France · Painting, French · Painting -- Reproduction
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