Dutch painters of the nineteenth century. With biographical notices (1898)
Rooses, Max, 1839-1914 · London, S. Low, Marston and Company · leaf 78
er ; the reflection of the sky ; the exquisite colouring, and above all the look of reality, made it a delight merely to stand and gaze at it. Of course Mesdag went to Paris to see his pictures hung. By a curious coincidence Courbet exhibited that year, two Marine pictures. One represented waves… … All the artistic world went into raptures over this marine piece of Courbet, and Mesdag too bowed his head in acknowledgement of the painter’s extra- ordinary talent and splendid painting, but to him it was not the sea, not his sea, as he knew it, as he had so carefully studied it, in all its…
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