Volume 1

Paris and the Parisians in 1835.

  • Frances Trollope
Date:
1836
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Paris and the Parisians in 1835. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    contribute as little at home as they did when sus- pended on the walls of the academy to the real pleasure and amusement of the beholder. At the exhibition this year at the Louvre are many exquisite full-length portraits in oil, of which the canvass measures from eighteen inches to a foot in height, and from a foot to ten inches in width. The composition and style of these beautiful little pictures are often such as to detain one long before them, even though one does not recognise in them the features of an acquaintance. Their unobtrusive size must prevent their ever being disagreeably predominant in the decoration of aroom; while their delicate and elaborate finish, and the richness of their highly-studied compo- sition, will well reward attention; and even the closest examination, when directed to them, either by politeness, affection, or connoisseurship, can never be disappointed. The Catalogue of the exhibition notices all the pictures which have been either ordered or pur- chased by the king or any of the royal family ; and the number is so considerable as to show plainly that the most liberal and widely-extended patronage of art is a systematic object with the government. The gold medal of the year has been courte- ously bestowed upon Mr. Martin for his picture of the Deluge. Had I been the judge, I should have awarded it to Stuben’s Battle of Waterloo. That
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