. Art in France. eportrayed. A Nattier portrait characterises not an individual, butthe collective type of a period: tender colours, a pink-cheeked faceunder a powdered wig, soft, rounded lines, a charming admixture ofmythological dignity and fashionable amenity (Figs. 557, 558, 560).Tocque, Roslin, and many others, who were not only painters butadmirable costumiers, have de-picted paniers, flowered satins andpretty faces, illuminated by aneven and somewhat chilly light(Fig. 562). At the end of the seventeenthcentury, artists had managed toreconcile Rubens painting andclassical art. The quiet
. Art in France. eportrayed. A Nattier portrait characterises not an individual, butthe collective type of a period: tender colours, a pink-cheeked faceunder a powdered wig, soft, rounded lines, a charming admixture ofmythological dignity and fashionable amenity (Figs. 557, 558, 560).Tocque, Roslin, and many others, who were not only painters butadmirable costumiers, have de-picted paniers, flowered satins andpretty faces, illuminated by aneven and somewhat chilly light(Fig. 562). At the end of the seventeenthcentury, artists had managed toreconcile Rubens painting andclassical art. The quiet influenceof the little Dutch masters gaverise to a new kind of painting,innocent of any classical tenden-cies. The pictures of Metsu andGerard Dou, which were greatlyadmired, showed how to give afamiliar scene in a small space,how to please the eye bv thefaithful reproduction of ordinary objects, and to draw out their „,,,.,„ .„^^.^^ ..^latent poetry, how to get values (The Louvre, Paris.) 268. PARISIAN ART UNDER LOUIS XV AND LOUIS XVI
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