Modern paintings as seen and described by great writers (1911)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, compiler, editor · New York : Dodd, Mead & Company · leaf 214
ansparence that the brush could never give to it. Look athis Chevreuil aux ecoutes. Examine that ground, those runningwaters, those spaces under the trees so clear and light, that deepand true harmony; all that is due to the use of the knife. More-over, Courbet handles that instrument with… … WHERE THE DEER MEET 157 It is difficult in these days to realise quite fully the degreeof animosity which a nature so independent as that of Cour-bet must have exerted twenty years ago amongst artists de-voted to the maintenance of tradition. He was accused ofintense pride, an accusation which in…
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