Miniatures, ancient and modern . urious more or less femininegrace of so much of the French miniaturework of the late eighteenth century—verypretty, but wanting in strength. Sicardiusually signed his paintings and often datedthem; he used indiscriminately Sicardi, Siccardi or Sicardy —people were notso particular about spelling in those days. The framing of many of Sicardis minia-tures has evidently been carefully considered,very likely by the artist himself. In Englandlittle or no attention has been given to thisimportant point, but a short examination ofthe miniatures in the Wallace Collecti
Miniatures, ancient and modern . urious more or less femininegrace of so much of the French miniaturework of the late eighteenth century—verypretty, but wanting in strength. Sicardiusually signed his paintings and often datedthem; he used indiscriminately Sicardi, Siccardi or Sicardy —people were notso particular about spelling in those days. The framing of many of Sicardis minia-tures has evidently been carefully considered,very likely by the artist himself. In Englandlittle or no attention has been given to thisimportant point, but a short examination ofthe miniatures in the Wallace Collection willshow that our neighbours have not been socareless in this particular as we have. Theythought a great deal about their frames, some-times with admirable results. Jean Baptiste Isabey (1767-1855) is, alto-gether, the greatest miniaturist France hasproduced, that is to say, putting aside introduced a new style into Frenchminiature art, that of transparent colour,aquarelle^ only, used without gouache. It is. FIELD-MAKSHAI. THK DUKE OF WELLING IONBy Jean BapHste Isabey THE :\EW YORK i PUBLIC LIBRARY ^ p—:— -? ^ »^» ?? I TH£ W^£1ti/ PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOK, AMD « 1.
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