Modern paintings as seen and described by great writers (1911)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, compiler, editor · New York : Dodd, Mead & Company · leaf 276
of his pred-ecessors, in conformity with the universal law of evolu-tion. In 1855, the tendency to paint contemporary life showeditself in him for the first time; in that year, he exhibited inthe Antwerp Salon a little picture which he called Chez Soi.A woman is warming her feet at the fire; she… … The Metropolitan Museum of Art After the Ball Stevens AFTER THE BALL 205 He returned to his female subjects in 1857, when heexhibited a Printemps, a motive as charming and sweetas a prayer, and that visit of two women in mourn-ing, called Consolation, which is so important among hisworks.…
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