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The great French painters and the evolution of French painting from 1830 to the present day (1903)

Mauclair, Camille, 1872-1945 · London, Duckworth · leaf 105

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painted some masterpieces which can defend themselves and have no need, like his Olyiupia, to be partly excused and praised as orii^inal attempts. In this chapter Edouard Manet should be left at the threshold of his second period. But to have united in himself all the merits which we have just… … D E GAS Waitinc; ment, but an entirely new vision; he showed the fallacy of certain axioms that had been arbitrarily imposed upon art. His place is there- fore an important one. He stirred up more ideas than Courbet, whose work is very beautiful in itself, but suggests no fruitful thought, and is…

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