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Studies in pictures; an introduction to the famous galleries (1907)

Van Dyke, John Charles, 1856-1932 · New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 186

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tien-Lepage was oneof the best of the younger men, and LHermitte,Lerolle, Dagnan-Bouveret have all produced a goodquality of peasant genre, but always with some re-minder of figure painting about it. This is true of the military genre of Meissonier(Plate 31). It is figure painting in the little;… … XXXI.—MEISSONlER, The Sergeants Portrait. GENRE PAINTING 107 life, and never painted boors or kitchen interiors orpots and pans, preferring the courtier in powderedwig, the soldier in his uniform, the scholar sur-rounded by his library. For these fine figures herather sacrificed the rest of his…

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