Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
[England? : s.n.] · leaf 134
ion. Hisbiographer, M. Jules Guiffrey, observes: The dis-tinguishing mark of French sculpture in the eight-eenth century is the effort to express Life, and thequivering surface of the Figure, together with agrace of movement which shows itself always insinuous lines, and rejects the placid… … A NYMPH OF DIANA.(Style of Falconnet.) such vivacity or want of repose may detract fromthe qualities of high art and force itself on theeye, in the charming small bronzes which we havebeen reviewing it is a fault which seems to ob-trude itself but little, and to be compensated by aspecial charm. We…
