. McClure's magazine. slim ladies dressed a la Grecque,and by high-stocked gentlemen content totravel by post. It is a canvas of morevalue than the pretentious and tiresomehistorical compositions of the time, andsuggests the reflection that many of theDavid pupils might have been better em-ployed in putting their scientific accuracyof drawing to the service of rendering thelife which they saw about them, instead ofproducing the arid stretches of academymodels posing as Hector or Romulus. Guillaume-Guillon Lethiere, a painter inwhose veins there was an admixture of ne-gro blood, would hardly ha
. McClure's magazine. slim ladies dressed a la Grecque,and by high-stocked gentlemen content totravel by post. It is a canvas of morevalue than the pretentious and tiresomehistorical compositions of the time, andsuggests the reflection that many of theDavid pupils might have been better em-ployed in putting their scientific accuracyof drawing to the service of rendering thelife which they saw about them, instead ofproducing the arid stretches of academymodels posing as Hector or Romulus. Guillaume-Guillon Lethiere, a painter inwhose veins there was an admixture of ne-gro blood, would hardly have echoed thesentiments of this last paragraph, as helived and worked in the factitious com-panionship of the Greeks and Romans. Soclearly, however, does the temperament ofa painter inspire the character of his workthat we may be glad that this was the case;for, of his school, Lethiere alone infusesinto his classicism something of the turbu-lent life which marked his own character. Born in Guadeloupe January 10, 1760,. THE COUNTESS REGNAULT DE SAINT-JEAN-DANGELY. FROMA PAINTING BV BARON GERARD, IN THE LOUVRE. A CENTURY OF PAINTING. i55
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