Smith, Gerard William · New York, Scribner · leaf 210
of his master Natoire.The Sleeping Hermit, in the Louvre, is perhaps an exampleof the work in which his powers found their truest if humblescope; it is nature truthfully seen and truthfully rendered.This adherence to the simple truth of nature, of which Yienso patiently set the example, was not… … 182 PAINTING IN FRANCE. With the name of Vien must he associated, in this comiectionthat of Pierre Peyron (1744—1820), now undeservedly for-gotten, whose pictures in the Louvre hreathe the true Romanspirit,and to whom David himself acknowledged his indebtedness. In alluding to his own initiatives…
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