Schools and masters of paintings : with an appendix on the principal galleries of Europe (1888)
Radcliffe, A. G. (Alida Graveraet) · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 446
. Yethis pictures are quite ideal in the points of combination andarrangement. He did not pretend to copy Nature accu-rately, but gave his imagination full play among the beautiesof forests, meadows, and sea-coasts ; selecting and distribut-ing according to his own will. His light, shade, and… … .iiltpiiU.iiiiWilMibi,Mi ,1, PAINTING IN FRANCE. ^yy own skill being unequal to the task. He even found it diffi-cult to draw his cows and sheep. The distinction betweenthe leading landscapists of the seventeenth century has beenwell expressed in Thomsons couplet: •* Whateer Lorraine light-touched…
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