. Art in France. ists, again, areamong the finest painters of theFrench school, for they spoke thatvivid and exact speech whichRubens had used some half century earlier; Hyacinlhe Rigaud(1659-1743), because he copied Van Dyck assiduously: NicolasLargilliere, because he was brought up in .Antwerp. They trans-lated the characteristics of physical life into paintmg. Rubens had shown them that pigment might ^ ^ become flesh and blood. Vouet,Poussin, and Le Brun had scornedto show the dry, harsh skin of athin face, the pearly epidermis of afair complexion. Largillieres andRigauds portraits are, abo
. Art in France. ists, again, areamong the finest painters of theFrench school, for they spoke thatvivid and exact speech whichRubens had used some half century earlier; Hyacinlhe Rigaud(1659-1743), because he copied Van Dyck assiduously: NicolasLargilliere, because he was brought up in .Antwerp. They trans-lated the characteristics of physical life into paintmg. Rubens had shown them that pigment might ^ ^ become flesh and blood. Vouet,Poussin, and Le Brun had scornedto show the dry, harsh skin of athin face, the pearly epidermis of afair complexion. Largillieres andRigauds portraits are, above allthings, alive. Rigaud painted with firm touchesand frank colour; the vigour of hissitters seems due, to some extent,to the solidity of his brush is nervous, subtle, andincisive; it indicates a bony face,the cartilages of the nose, the jointsof the fingers, and the creases ofsatin, in clearly defined contours, which are al-ways banal, are relieved bv this ixhc Louvn-, Paris.) 250. ^.f^. —I>KSPl>KTKS. IMKTKAIT OFA HINTKR. THE END OF LOUIS XIVS REIGN
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