Modern paintings as seen and described by great writers (1911)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, compiler, editor · New York : Dodd, Mead & Company · leaf 418
looks upon Ingres as the first starin the firmament of French art. And, indeed, Degas is theonly one who ever reflected, even dimly, anything of thegenius of the great master. The likeness to Ingres whichsome affect to see in Flandrins work is entirely superficialbut in the Semiramis Building the… … Danseuse Etofle Degas DANSETJSE ^TOILE 3!9 evanescent upon the face of the daughter hardly pubescentyet. But if Degas took from Ingres that method of draw-ing which may be defined as drawing by the character incontradistinction to that of drawing by the masses, he ap-plied the method differently…
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