Modern paintings as seen and described by great writers (1911)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, compiler, editor · New York : Dodd, Mead & Company · leaf 232
of 1850 Mademoiselle Bonheur exhibited twocanvases representing a Morning Effect and some Sheep.There was no exhibition in 1851, and the artist allowed theyear 1852 to pass by without exhibiting at all. Indeed shewas at this time absorbed in a great work for which she wasmaking preparations, and… … THE HOUSE FAIIt xyx called the Marche aux Chevaux, known in England as theHorse Fair. The picture was exhibited at the Salon of1853. The merits of this picture—the largest canvas whichany animal painter had ever produced—in which the horses,although painted but two-thirds the real size strike the…
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