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Le Jardin des Plantes à Pékin--Les Chinois admirant beaucoup un quadrupéd de France et un bipède du même pays ... / H.D. ; lith. Destouches. — Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879, artist[1854]
at the Ecole of the water-colors of Gavarni, the sepias of Henri Monnier and the paintings, then quite unknown, of Daumier, it caused a scandal. Fortunately protestation changed into apotheosis and the very dignitaries who had at first objected, won by the sumptuousness of the works, put Daumier into the Louvre. M. Dayot recounts this episode in his preface for the catalogue of the Ville-I’Eveque exhibit, with the hint to the authorities that since 1888 they have gained the reputation for “enlightened eclecticism.” M. Dayot’s opinion of what such an …
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Made in the nineteenth century, like Le Jardin des Plantes à Pékin--Les Chinois admirant beaucoup un quadrupéd de France et un bipède du même pays ... / H.D. ; lith. Destouches..