Front matter
Frederic Taber Cooper translation
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ROSA BONHEUR MASTERPIECES IN COLOR
MASTERPIECES IN COLOUR EDITED BY - - M. HENRY ROUJON
ROSA BONHEUR (1822-1899)
IN THE SAME SERIES
REYNOLDS LE BRUN
VELASQUEZ CHARDIN
GREUZE MILLET
TURNER RAEBURN
BOTTICELLI SARGENT
ROMNEY CONSTABLE
REMBRANDT MEMLING
BELLINI FRAGONARD
FRA ANGELICO DÜRER
ROSSETTI LAWRENCE
RAPHAEL HOGARTH
LEIGHTON WATTEAU
HOLMAN HUNT MURILLO
TITIAN WATTS
MILLAIS INGRES
LUINI COROT
FRANZ HALS DELACROIX
CARLO DOLCI FRA LIPPO LIPPI
GAINSBOROUGH PUVIS DE CHAVANNES
TINTORETTO MEISSONIER
VAN DYCK GÉRÔME
DA VINCI VERONESE
WHISTLER VAN EYCK
RUBENS FROMENTIN
BOUCHER MANTEGNA
HOLBEIN PERUGINO
BURNE-JONES HENNER
PLATE I.—THE LION MEDITATING (Rosa Bonheur Museum)
According to artists, the lion is the most difficult of all animals to paint, on account of the prodigious mobility of his physiognomy. Rosa Bonheur was able, thanks to her inimitable art, to catch and reproduce the fugitive facial expressions of the kingly beast,—expressions that the artist succeeded in securing during a visit to a certain menagerie, and which she managed to record with a most surprising vigour and fidelity.
ROSA BONHEUR
BY FR. CRASTRE
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY FREDERIC TABER COOPER
ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY NEW YORK—PUBLISHERS
COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
August, 1913
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