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Painting, Spanish and French (1890)

Smith, Gerard William · New York, Scribner · leaf 192

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s touse it nobly. Louis XIV., with all his vices, was not without atrue feeling for greatness, which reflected itself in his sincerepatronage of art. The light in which Louis XV. consideredpainting was as one means the more for ministering to his jadedtastes, while his care for the greatness of… … 164 PAINTING IN FRANCE. pRANgois Lemoine (1688—1737). His early studies weredirected by Louis Galloche, who continued the school ofBoulogne and Santerre, and whose academic style may be seenin his Hercules and Alcestis in the Louvre. From thetrammels of the academic method Lemoine never freed…

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