Famous pictures reproduced from renowned paintings - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...him to paint the great decorative panels for the Mayor's Office of the Nineteenth Arrondissement. This engagement secured him also ad mission into the Legion of Honor. When "The Masked Model" appeared at the Salon, it created a sensation second only to that of the picture which did not appear. It became popularly rumored that the original was a great lady, who had consented to pose for the artist under condition that her face should be covered so as to prevent her from being identified, and this added piquant interest to the magnificent art displayed in the picture. As a matter of fact, however, it was only the figure of a professional model. While posing for Gervex she had, in a spirit of fun, put on a ball mask which was hanging to the wall, and the effect was so original that the artist used it for his finished picture. "The Young Connoisseur," by Paul Prosper Tillier, is a fair-haired girl who examines an etching or engraving. The artist is a native of Baupere in the Vendue and a pupil of Leon Cogniet. William Kray illustrates another page of the Rhine legends by his " Lorelei and Igorne." In "Attention" Miss Coomans shows a Greek girl, who has been preparing an offer of incense and flowers to her household deity, on the terrace, and who interrupts it to watch curiously something which is occurring or some one who is passing in the street below. "Fragility" is one of a series of decorative panels painted by J. F. Ballavoine for the boudoir of a Paris mansion. The subject is a fair social enchantress who, after a great ball, has disrobed and casts herself wearily on her couch, and in doing so has broken the pearl ornaments she wears in her hair. A natural idea might suggest itself to a possibly cynical ob...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1236163214
- ISBN 13 9781236163219
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages36
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