Appreciation of sculpture; a handbook by Russell Sturgis ... . ity and age of Pigalle. It iscurious that the epoch which we associatewith triviality and elegant nonsense, thereign of Louis XV, following that almostlegendary epoch which we call the Regency,should tell more decidedly in sculpturethan in the more gentle and graceful anddainty art of the painter ; but the best thatthe painters of the day have to show us isafter all the work of Boucher and Chardin,and how slight and weak is that, in com-parison with the sculpture of the menwhose names are given above! Of Pigalle the most renowned w
Appreciation of sculpture; a handbook by Russell Sturgis ... . ity and age of Pigalle. It iscurious that the epoch which we associatewith triviality and elegant nonsense, thereign of Louis XV, following that almostlegendary epoch which we call the Regency,should tell more decidedly in sculpturethan in the more gentle and graceful anddainty art of the painter ; but the best thatthe painters of the day have to show us isafter all the work of Boucher and Chardin,and how slight and weak is that, in com-parison with the sculpture of the menwhose names are given above! Of Pigalle the most renowned work iscertainly that Mercury attaching hisSandal, which is preserved in the collec-tion of Frederick the Great in Potsdam,while a replica of the figure is in theLouvre. If it is not chosen alone for re-production here, that is merely because ofits wide celebrity, and because the otherstatue given in Plate XXXI is certainly,as a piece of pure sculpture, as attractive asthe Mercury itself This statue, called De-spair (Le Desespoir), is by J. J. Perraud, a[128].
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