Smith, Gerard William · New York, Scribner · leaf 224
The flesh,too, has that porcelain tone p^^^culiar to Guerin. The Clytem-nestra is perhaps his best work. It is calculated even to theeffect of the purple light spread by the curtain, but the artisthas for once succeeded in expressing real pathos in the face ofthe heroine. Guerin died in 1833 at… … 192 TATXTING IN FRANCE. Pierre Paul Prudhon (born in 1758, died in 1823). Theson of a poor mason, Prudhon gained his first impressionsof painting from some pictures in the Abbey of Cluny. wherehe was brought up, and after some years in Dijon and Paris,succeeded in 1782 in visiting Eome. Here…
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