The French Pastellists of the Eighteenth Century
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Excerpt from The French Pastellists of the Eighteenth Century: Their Lives Their Times Their Art, and Their Significance It is the fashion, and a pretty one, to set the name of the writer of a book upon its title-page; but I cannot let these pages go forth wholly under such usurpation - justice demands that its god-parents should also be acknowledged, and their names, ranks, and titles set forth. In essaying to bring back out of the dead past and weave the romance of their years about the artists who won to the fine achievement of the pastel in the France of Louis Quinze, I have come to the gay business with the enhancing advantage of having the coloured record of their masterpieces to keep my pen´s ink in handsome and dandified company. But across this splendid acreage through which I have reaped with what little skill has been granted to me, it would have been impossible for me to have wandered without serious trespass, had I not been freed by the generous kindliness of the owners of such rich fields as have had their gates thrown open to me. The freely-given consent of Madame la Marquise de Ganay has been granted with a rare and gracious spirit; Madame Jahan has also smiled upon the venture; whilst to Monsieur Danjon of Caen I owe a debt of kindly thought and act. Monsieur Le Prieur, of the great gallery of the Louvre, and the Curators of the Amiens and Orleans Museums have proved that in France the man in office can be as helpful as in many lands he is tedious; and Monsieur Eck, the Curator of the Saint Quentin Museum, has loosed the hard laws of his charge to the utmost of his power. In England, Mr. Martin Hardie of the South Kensington Museum has my gratitude for all his good comradeship and advice. But it is above all to my friend, T. Leman Hare, that I owe the heaviest debt - for not only has he worked for me and with me, but it is to him that I owe the very inspiration of the delightful undertaking. It was out of Hare´s brain that the book was born; to his sympathy and energy that its upbringing chiefly belongs; and to his enthusiasm that my share in it was wholly due. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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