 ... sympathy closer. And still as he labours, not less sedulously than of old, and still so full of loyalty to his old master, in that Watteau chamber, I seem to see Antony himself, of whom Jean-Baptiste dares not yet speak, — to come very near his...  Imaginary Portraits - Page 19by Walter Pater - 1894 - 180 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jonathan Weinberg - Art - 1993 - 294 pages
...needs his home as a kind of anchor. He is ambivalent about the wealthy society he frequents and paints. Antony Watteau paints that delicate life of Paris...myself of that, is my womanly satisfaction for his preference—his apparent preference—for a world so different from mine. Those coquetries, those... | |
 | R. M. Seiler - Authors, English - 1980 - 476 pages
...he began, he leaves unfinished; yet she finds some satisfaction in a theory of her own, that Antony 'paints that delicate life of Paris so excellently,...because, after all, he looks down upon it or despises it' . All the journal is equally charming; and one almost feels like a barbarian in suggesting that no... | |
 | Thomas Lütkemeier - Aesthetics - 2001 - 318 pages
...who is Watteau's immediate successor: "So Jean-Baptiste's work, in its nearness to his [Watteau's], may stand, for the future, as the central interest of my life. I bun' myself in that" (IP, 9; 26). Her critical endeavours indeed are so serious and even professional... | |
 | Thomas Lütkemeier - Aesthetics - 2001 - 318 pages
...who is Watteau's immediate successor: "So Jean-Baptiste's work, in its nearness to his [Watteau's], may stand, for the future, as the central interest of my life. I bun' myself in that" (IP, 9; 26). Her critical endeavours indeed are so serious and even professional... | |
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