Modern paintings as seen and described by great writers (1911)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, compiler, editor · New York : Dodd, Mead & Company · leaf 252
evaux and EnvironsdOstende (1878), each better than the last, led to thatmasterpiece the Embouchure de VEscaut, which, at the Salonin Paris of 1879, so greatly impressed the French artists, andwhich was one of the great attractions at the Brussels Ex-position. This was because the artist, in… … I/EMBOUCHURE DE I/ESCATJT 187 phere. He had expressed its fertility, its generous sapsand its effervescence in intense colour, in which were accordedthe lights of the sky, the shining coats of the animals andthe greenish shadows of the ground. What dominated herewas health prodigal to exuberance,…
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