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 202
ay tints, and after having placed his masses of trees and the linesof his landscape, he was taking up, with the delicacy of a miniaturist, 1 I thiuk the picture shows, by the way the sunlight falls on the white cloujs, that theeffect was painted to represent a later or an earlier hour. The clouds… … i!^ PIERRE-fiTIENNE-THfiODORE ROUSSEAU 125 the sky and the trunks of the trees, scraping with a palette-knife tohalf the depth of the painting, and retouching the masses with im-perceptible subtility of touch. It was a patient labor, which finishedby being disturbing, it was so imperceptible. It…
Painters -- France · Painting, French · Painting -- Reproduction
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