usly symbolical or romantic subjects. Courbet proved himself a worthy heir of the g"reat painters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, of Rembrandt, of Hals, and even of Tintoretto, in g"iving being to works like his own portrait {TJic Man 7vit/i the Leather Belt), the Young Man Wounded^ the… … MANET The Dead Toreador mingling of nudes and modern people, is one of the most beautiful can- vases that have ever been painted. This is realism in its most fascinat- ing aspect, heightened through the splendour of colour and material — realism as it was understood by the Dutchmen and the fine…
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