. Art in France. FIG. 560. — KATTIKR. TATTING. (Museum of Versailles.) ART IN FRANCE. FIG. 561. -VAN LOO. HALT OF (The Louvre, Paris) they wished to be. Heconferred that fashionableelegance which everywoman demands fromher hairdresser and herdressmaker. For fashion,as we know, is a workerof miracles, and producesuniformity of features aswell as of vesture. Nat-tier may be said to havefixed the type of theLouis XV style, and con-sequently, it is not alwayseasy to distinguish amongthe innumerable Daugh-ters of France whom heportrayed. A Nattier portrait characterises not
. Art in France. FIG. 560. — KATTIKR. TATTING. (Museum of Versailles.) ART IN FRANCE. FIG. 561. -VAN LOO. HALT OF (The Louvre, Paris) they wished to be. Heconferred that fashionableelegance which everywoman demands fromher hairdresser and herdressmaker. For fashion,as we know, is a workerof miracles, and producesuniformity of features aswell as of vesture. Nat-tier may be said to havefixed the type of theLouis XV style, and con-sequently, it is not alwayseasy to distinguish amongthe innumerable Daugh-ters of France whom heportrayed. 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
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