Painters and sculptors; a second series of Old masters and new, (1907)
Cox, Kenyon · Duffield and Co · leaf 118
art theyproduced. Watteau was sickly, restless, morbid,unhappy, and while he learned his trade from thegood-humoured giant of Antwerp, and even found inhis works the type of his own compositions, he hadnone of that masters jovial realism and aboundingvigour. Life as it was, was hateful to him, and… … PAINTERS OF THE MODE 57 without the eating, where love was only a pretty imi-tation, and there wu nothing more important todo than to sit under graceful trees or dance a languid minuet- far from him the mad whirl androbust gaiety of Rubenss k* Hondo. His men arehabited in a dress reminiscent of the…
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