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 398
of drawing with a pen, he says: Having at my disposition a means so limited [as the pen], I havelearned that there is one all-important element which we must seekin everything which we would reproduce, and which, for want of amore definite word, we may caU the soul, the spirit of the object… … THE APOTHEOSIS. BY BOUTET DE MONVEL MAURICE BOUTET DE MONVEL 257 other stick would have the character which belongs to this particularone, and this, which is true of the rude stick, applies the more as weascend the scale of creation. This is the lesson taught me by thenecessity of expressing much…
Painters -- France · Painting, French · Painting -- Reproduction
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