Museum of Painting and Sculpture Volume 9; Or, Collection of the Principal Pictures, Statues and Bas-Reliefs in the Public and Private Galleries of Eu (Paperback)

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. 1830 Excerpt: ...John Wynants, with whom he certainly learnt to handle the palette, but he was a painter, by nature, before he saw an Atelier. He drew, with an astonishing taste, goats, sheep, and cows. The merit of Adrian Vander Velde's pictures consists in an extraordinary colouring, a most faithful expression in bis personages and animals, striking effects, ingeniously caught from nature, and rendered with a free and most i delicate touch. This pictures presents to the admirer all the depth of Vander Velde's talent; the pasturage is of the freshest, the animals are of perfectbeauty and truth, the personages simple and of the utmost ingenuousness. Here every thing brings to mind Gessner's charmiug Idyls. Painted on wood, this picture is now in the Museum of the Louvre, having been purchased in 1770. It has been engraved by Geissler. Width 2o inches; height, ib inches. ECOLE FRANCAISE. LE SUEUR. MUSEE FRANCAIS. TERPSICHORE. Les Muses n'etaient d'abord que trois: Mncmc la Memoire, Melele la Reflexion, Arndt le Chant. Varron raconte qu'elles furent portees a neuf, parce que les habitan s de Sicyone, ayant charge trois sculpteurs, de faire chacun les statues des Muses, et se proposant de choisir les meilleures, les trouverent si parfaites, qu'elles furent placees toutes les neuf dans le temple d'Apollon. Hesiode ensuite leur donna des noms et les classa ainsi: Clio, Euterpe, Thalie, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polymnie, Uranie et Calliope. A l'exception de Polymnie, qui se trouve en place de Terpsichore, elles etaient disposees ainsi dans la piece ou elles ont ete peintes a l'hotel du president Lambert. Le nom de Terpsichore signifie qui aime la dans...