. Art in France. es sitters have not yet been reducedto uniformity by the taste of thesovereign, and the artist, little concerned to paint history, wascontent to be a good observer and a very skilful executant in theFlemish manner (Fig. 467). The draughtsman-engraver RobertNauteuil sketched from nature portraits which he afterwardsengraved so vivaciously that they are as full of life and colour aspaintings; Edelinck, too, translated the strong and variegated splen-dour of Largillieres and Rigauds portraits into black and white. Le Brun also designed for the Versailles sculptors.

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. Art in France. es sitters have not yet been reducedto uniformity by the taste of thesovereign, and the artist, little concerned to paint history, wascontent to be a good observer and a very skilful executant in theFlemish manner (Fig. 467). The draughtsman-engraver RobertNauteuil sketched from nature portraits which he afterwardsengraved so vivaciously that they are as full of life and colour aspaintings; Edelinck, too, translated the strong and variegated splen-dour of Largillieres and Rigauds portraits into black and white. Le Brun also designed for the Versailles sculptors. Girardon(1628-1715) was the one whobest understood the intentions ofthe kings painter. His marbleseemed naturally to take thefacile and redundant softness ofform dear to Le Brun. TheFouis XIV he executed for thePlace des Conquetes (PlaceVendome) was an imposingequestrian figure (Fig. 449).For the Grotto of Apollo at [Versailles, he sculptured, to-gether with Tubi and de Marsy,a triple group of nymphs, horses, 222. KIC. 4f)0. «0\SK\ ST OF THE CRE^T CX)NDt. (The Louvri, Iaris.) THE MONARCHICAL ART OF LOUIS XIV

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