The table book of art; a history of art in all countries and ages (1880)
Sandhurst, Phillip T · N.Y., Worthington · leaf 332
won disgraceful distinction as a member of the Commune and wassentenced to death for his share in that affair, but pardoned (simply because he wassuch a great artist) on condition of paying a very large fine to go towards the re-con-struction of the Column Vendome, which he had helped to destroy.… … I ■ isei MEISSONIER. 215 from a diggers tent to a ladys boudoir; from the clenched fist whose knuckles areyet red with knocking down a bullock, to a long, white, consumptive hand. Hamonis one of the most delicious of idyllic painters ; the most charming of French classic-ists ; the most child-like…
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