Exposition universelle, 1900 : the chefs-d'œuvre (1900)
Walton, William, 1843-1915 · Philadelphia : G. Barrie & Son · leaf 173
CONTEMPORARY ART 73 to destroy panels with which he was not satisfied, though he could have sold them for high prices, and yet he was never free from the need of money, for he was proud of his carriages, his horses, and his luxury. On one occasion, he was showing the author his caleches, on which… … I have been told, he regretted at his death, — this was that of rendering possible, by its im¬ portance, the fatal rupture which separated the artists into two camps, to the great injury of the general cause of art.” The monument to Meissonier, to which allusion is made, has indeed an honorable…
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