Parsons, Frank Alvah, 1868-1930 · Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 334
final strug-gle of ancient noblesse and grandeur against effetementality and the perverted senses was to take place. The days, too, of Baroque art and its strivings afterthe astonishing, the blatant, the exaggerated, and thepompous were past, for in its place had come the Rococostyle with its… … THE PIQUANTE CHARM OF THE RIDING HABIT AND THE ENVIRONMENTIN WHICH IT IS SHOWN ARE IN PERFECT KEEPING WITH THE PER-SONAGES AND WITH THE TECHNIQUE OF THIS LOVELY PAINTING.
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