Studies in pictures; an introduction to the famous galleries (1907)
Van Dyke, John Charles, 1856-1932 · New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 134
pire uniform standing on aships deck, and to call the result Napoleon on theBellerophon ; but to draw and paint a figure thatstands and looks and ii^thfe-dethroned emperor, asOrchardson has done, that is quite another thing.That a figure .should have defimte_character is vitallyimportant. It is… … UJ _1 X FIGURE PAINTING 73 or a furrowed clieek. I shall have something to sayabout that when I come to speak of the portrait;but there may be a portraiture of the figure quite aseffective as of the face, and character may be ex-pressed in finger tips as well as in nose tips. Thereis on the ceiling…
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