Smith, Gerard William · New York, Scribner · leaf 189
arkment for the Isle of Cythera, now inthe Louvre, is happily suggestive of the scope and aim of hiswhole work. It is always to an enchanted land of love andpleasure that Watteau leads us. At first sight notliing could 160 PAINTING IN FRANCE. seem more trivial and affected than these fetes galantes… … Fete Champetre. By Pater, to have something of the careless grace of nature, This is what constitutes the merit of Watteau, and raises him above all hisrivals in the same field. He was the only artist who so treateda conventional theme as to idealize it, and his genius has givenan enduring life and…
Painting, Spanish · Painting, French
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