The table book of art; a history of art in all countries and ages (1880)
Sandhurst, Phillip T · N.Y., Worthington · leaf 242
gular teacher of painting. Louis David was eccentric always, and his mind seemedto share in a degree the distortion of his person, for the painter was mis-shapen inbody. Because he had tried repeatedly and failed, in a great measure because of hisown scorn for rules, to get the nighest honours from… … I DA VID. 155 Rome, and remained ardently studying the antique in Italy, during five years, in thecourse of which he painted the Plague of St. Rock. On his return to France his stylepresented an entire change, from that which had been marked by the flimsy pretti-ness of Watteau and his followers.…
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