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. 1913 Excerpt: ...forty-eight pictures collected by Bruyas were given by him to the Montpellier Museum. The whole French school of the time may be said to be represented in that eclectic collection, from David to Millet, including Gericault, Delacroix, Ingres, Tassaert, Corot, Diaz, Bonvin and many others. Courbet holds a privileged ...
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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. 1913 Excerpt: ...forty-eight pictures collected by Bruyas were given by him to the Montpellier Museum. The whole French school of the time may be said to be represented in that eclectic collection, from David to Millet, including Gericault, Delacroix, Ingres, Tassaert, Corot, Diaz, Bonvin and many others. Courbet holds a privileged position since he is represented by thirteen pictures, including "L'Homme a la Pipe," "Les Baigneuses," "La Fileuse," "Baudelaire," "La Rencontre," and we must add three portraits of the donor, for it was one of his foibles to have himself painted as often as possible. In 1857, Champfleury, who had stayed with him, published in the "Revue les Deux Mondes," much to Courbet's annoyance, a "Story of M. T.," in which those who knew had no difficulty in recognizing Bruyas and his Narcissus weakness. The patron of the arts was drawn to the life with his bright red beard and hair, his misty blue eyes and pale complexion. Champfleury maliciously belauded his aristocratic hands with the little finger curving out, and their precious intaglio rings, and their whiteness which Bruyas loved to have admired. "He is discreet, solitary, melancholy," said the writer, "he has the soul of a pretty woman who is bored, combined with mysticism and sensuality." Theophile Silvestre who, in 1876, published a fully annotated catalogue of the Bruyas collection, gives a much more nattering sketch of Courbet's patron. If he often had his portrait painted, he explains, it was because he wished to show, by letting many different painters use the same model, the craftsmanship and temperament of each of them. So it is, according to Silvestre, that in his three portraits, in spite of his affe...
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b/w Illus. Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. 1st American edition; dj w/lite wear, unclipped price, in mylar; navy c w/gilt spine titles; 406 clean, unmarked pages+index/bibliograhy, notes.