Modern paintings as seen and described by great writers (1911)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, compiler, editor · New York : Dodd, Mead & Company · leaf 240
shion, without any of the cumbrous machineryof allegories and personifications for which this and the com-panion subjects might easily have furnished a pretext. LaPaix (executed in 1861) is an idyll of heroic conception andproportions. In the foreground, grouped around a largeoleander tree close… … Sainte Genevieve Marked with the Divine Seal Puvis de Chavannes SAINTE GENEVIEVE 177 in leopard-skins, milks a goat, while another undrapedfemale figure offers a basket piled high with grapes to a youngman who sits on the edge of the stream. In the backgroundare youths engaged in friendly contest…
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