File:Jean-Baptiste Greuze - Les Deux Soeurs (or The Two Sisters).jpg

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Title: Greuze
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Macklin, Alys Eyre
Subjects: Greuze, Jean Baptiste, 1725-1805
Publisher: London, T.C. (and) E.C. Jack
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ury dominated. For days he could neithersleep nor eat; and he covered reams of paperin writing to the papers to prove by technicallaws and logical arguments that the picturewas not only good, but a masterpiece. Butfor once the adoring public remained un-responsive. The last straw was his friendDiderot^s criticism, published in the usualway. The figure of Septime Severe is ignoblein character. It has the dark, swarthy skinof a convict; its action is uncertain. It isbadly drawn, it has the wrist broken ; thedistance from the neck to the breast-bone is PLATE VI.—LES DEUX SCEURS Les Deux Soeurs, or The Two Sisters, has been untilrecently in the private collection of Baron Arthur de Rothschild,who bequeathed it to the Louvre, where it now hangs. If it lackssome of the charm of Greuzes other pictures of girls, it possessesmanj of his most charming qualities—delicacy of colouring, grace-ful figures, appealing gesture. The arrangement of the scarvesand draperies is essentially **Greuze. I
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GREUZE 51 exaggerated. Neither do you see the begin-ning of the right knee nor where it goes tobeneath the covering of the bed. Caracallais even more ignoble than his father, awooden figure, without suppleness or move-ment. Those who force their talent donothing with grace. Having exhausted all other means of pro-test, Greuze took refuge in the sulkiness ofa naughty child, and more or less indepen-dent now that he was at last to have thecoveted logement in the Louvre, he declaredhe would never again send a picture to theAcademy. Nor did he, for when, years later, he wasobliged to fall back on its aid, the Academyas he had known it was swallowed up in thewhirlpool of the Revolution. CHAPTER VI THE BROKEN PITCHER AND OTHERWELL-KNOWN PICTURES TO certain temperaments the associa-tions of the Louvre are as interestingas the treasures it actually contains, andmany a dreamer wandering through thosesuperb galleries must have tried to recon-stitute such scenes as the receptions heldby Greuze w

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