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Catalog of Portraits, 1909-1911, 1929 [page 105]
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[[heading in green ink:]] Description And Criticism of Picture. | [[heading in green ink:]] Description And Criticism of Picture. | ||
[[symbol in green ink:]] Ŧ We have before us - | [[symbol in green ink:]] Ŧ We have before us - portrait or no portrait a conception more deliberately romantic than any that we owe to this loftiest and most inspired of realists. The young cavalier, with perfect ease and grace, wears a rich, semi-oriental uniform, which but for tradition would be inclined to connect with Russia rather than with Poland. All solitary he rides across a sombre unpeopled country, which is shadowed by the abruptly rising crags of some mountain chain, crested with a fortress. The horse is of the heroic type, and suggests as its prototype no living beast, but some drawing by an Italian master of the Quatrocento based on a classical model; some such drawing as Rembrandt | ||
[[symbol in green ink:]] Ŧ The Daily Mail. | |||
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heading in green ink: Description And Criticism of Picture.
symbol in green ink: Ŧ We have before us - portrait or no portrait a conception more deliberately romantic than any that we owe to this loftiest and most inspired of realists. The young cavalier, with perfect ease and grace, wears a rich, semi-oriental uniform, which but for tradition would be inclined to connect with Russia rather than with Poland. All solitary he rides across a sombre unpeopled country, which is shadowed by the abruptly rising crags of some mountain chain, crested with a fortress. The horse is of the heroic type, and suggests as its prototype no living beast, but some drawing by an Italian master of the Quatrocento based on a classical model; some such drawing as Rembrandt
symbol in green ink: Ŧ The Daily Mail.
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