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 30
to turn his back on Coutures pictiue, both in comingand in going. The painters contempt for bourgeois tasteby no means kept him from feeling this royal behavior mostkeenly. However, the picture had such great success, was sogenerally praised, suddenly causing its author to become fa-mous in a day,… … THOMAS COUTURE 9 he called on Coutiire some time after the purchase of the Decadence, and said: Monsieur Couture, I have greatly disapproved, I still dis-approve, of your conception of art, but I do not deny that youhave talent. You have made for yourself a place in art; let usbe friends. But…
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