Front matter
Frederic Taber Cooper translation
Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/meissonier00barbuoft
MEISSONIER MASTERPIECES IN COLOR
MASTERPIECES IN COLOUR EDITED BY - - M. HENRY ROUJON
MEISSONIER (1815-1891)
IN THE SAME SERIES
REYNOLDS RUBENS
VELASQUEZ HOLBEIN
GREUZE BURNE-JONES
TURNER LE BRUN
BOTTICELLI CHARDIN
ROMNEY MILLET
REMBRANDT RAEBURN
BELLINI SARGENT
FRA ANGELICO CONSTABLE
ROSSETTI MEMLING
RAPHAEL FRAGONARD
LEIGHTON DÜRER
HOLMAN HUNT LAWRENCE
TITIAN HOGARTH
MILLAIS WATTEAU
LUINI MURILLO
FRANZ HALS WATTS
CARLO DOLCI INGRES
GAINSBOROUGH COROT
TINTORETTO DELACROIX
VAN DYCK FRA LIPPO LIPPI
DA VINCI PUVIS DE CHAVANNES
WHISTLER MEISSONIER
MONTAGNA
IN PREPARATION
GEROME BOUCHER
VERONESE PERUGINO
VAN EYCK
PLATE I.—THE FLUTE-PLAYER (In the Musée du Louvre)
Meissonier’s erudition was such that it enabled him to combine the skill of the artist with the utmost fidelity in details of costume. In the Flute-player, the artist predominates. This figure, with foot slightly raised in the act of beating time, is admirably life-like.
MEISSONIER
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY FREDERIC TABER COOPER
ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR
IN SEMPITERNUM.
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY NEW YORK—PUBLISHERS
COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
May 1912
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