. Art in France. sSo. — IHIKKREnAMOlR. (Ualhuc Collection. Hertford House.)(Photo. St>oimcr.) PARISIAN ART UNDER LOUIS XV AND LOUIS XVI. FIG. 581.—MOREAU THE .ADIEU. ENGRAVING. (Bibliotheque Nationale, Print Room.) like Baudoins couples, settled down to domestic happiness with a swarm of generation of men and women of sensibility, sympa-thetic readers of La NouVelle HeloYse, loved to appear in appealing attitudes. Drouais, a successful disciple of Nattier, travestied little aristocrats as Savoyards. Madame Vigee- Lebrun had a prodigious suc-ces


. Art in France. sSo. — IHIKKREnAMOlR. (Ualhuc Collection. Hertford House.)(Photo. St>oimcr.) PARISIAN ART UNDER LOUIS XV AND LOUIS XVI. FIG. 581.—MOREAU THE .ADIEU. ENGRAVING. (Bibliotheque Nationale, Print Room.) like Baudoins couples, settled down to domestic happiness with a swarm of generation of men and women of sensibility, sympa-thetic readers of La NouVelle HeloYse, loved to appear in appealing attitudes. Drouais, a successful disciple of Nattier, travestied little aristocrats as Savoyards. Madame Vigee- Lebrun had a prodigious suc-cess in the Court-world (Figs. 589,591). She borrowed from Flemish painting the brilliance of colour by which she gave freshness of complexion and liquid softness of eyes and lips to her sitters. Marie Antoinette posed as the beloved mother surrounded by her children, while in Nattiers time no painter would have ventured to place Marie Leczinska in a family group among her innumerable daughters. Madame Vigee-Lebrun did not forget to paint herself and to show how she adored and was adoredby her daughter. Her facile brushand tender colour have preservedimag


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