Baldry, A. L. (Alfred Lys), 1858-1939 · London, New York : Goupil · leaf 292
th spread out before him, the casualvisitor may be safely left to consider and dis-cover the reasons for this proof of expertapprobation. An essay miirhi be written on the snufl-box and the bonbonniere as historical documentsthrowing light on the whole social life ofFrance in the eighteenth… … 286 THE WALLACE COLLECTION. strove to create around it, while a severe criticmight plausibly maintain that in these daintytrifles, with their inexhaustible inventivenessand their miraculous delicacy of finished work-manship we have the highest culmination ofFrench eighteenth-century art, and that…
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