. Art in France. 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 preservedimages somewhat lacking in indi-viduality, of those heroines of theemigration or
. Art in France. 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 preservedimages somewhat lacking in indi-viduality, of those heroines of theemigration or the guillotine, whobared necks white as the flesh ofchickens on the revolutionaryscaffold. Literature helped this senti-mental generation to discover afresh source of emotion. Writersof fiction such as Rousseau andBernardin de Saint-Pierre taughtthem that meditation rises tosublimity in the solitude of Nature,and that water, trees, storm anddarkness seem to become animate,and to participate in our passions. 277. FIG. 582.—LAVREINCE. THE BILLETDOUX. ENGRAVING. (Bibliotheque Nationale, Print Room.) ART IN FRANCE
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