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. 1900 Excerpt: ...have for so long a while brilliantly embellished. His graceful sprawling goddesses, dallying heroes, amorous shepherdesses, and busy Loves, display to the full the talent of this painter for decoration. It must be borne in mind that many of these works were not in primary intention painted as pictures at all, but as ...
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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. 1900 Excerpt: ...have for so long a while brilliantly embellished. His graceful sprawling goddesses, dallying heroes, amorous shepherdesses, and busy Loves, display to the full the talent of this painter for decoration. It must be borne in mind that many of these works were not in primary intention painted as pictures at all, but as models for the Gobelins factory, for conversion into tapestry. So judged, the subjects of many of the pictures become intelligible and, artistically considered, justifiable. It is said of Lord Beaconsfield--and probably also of others--that when his Sovereign asked him his opinion on the subject of some of these tapestries, about which he neither knew nor cared, he bowed and wittily replied, "Here, Madam, Nature is worsted!" Yet it was actually as Nature and as paint that Boucher's work was judged by his contemporaries; and although we may hold the artist fairly to reflect the temper and the taste of his age, we must remember that he found critics as severe in his own time as in the coldest and most prudish quarters in the present day. Diderot, at one time fatuously enthusiastic, at another violently hostile, often referred to Boucher as "this man;" and writing of "Jove, in the Shape of Diana, surprises Callisto" (No. 446 in this collection), he denounced it in the most virulent terms, as he had condemned many other works by the same hand, for the "degradation of taste," and so forth, which he declared to follow naturally upon "depravity of manners." This particular picture was painted for the Gobelins in 1757 and was exhibited in that year. The engraving of it was produced in 1759, and seven years later it was executed in tapestry. Similarly, the famous "Rising of the Sun" and "Se...
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