The Night-Watch at Amsterdam is magnificent in parts, but on the side to the spectator's right, smoky and dim. The Five Masters of the Drapers is wonderful for depth, strength, brightness, massive power. What words are these to express a picture!

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Aimé Giron
Alexandre Dumas
Charles Lamb
Edmond de Goncourt
Edward T. Cook
Eugène Fromentin
F.A. Gruyer
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Addington Symonds
John Ruskin
Jules de Goncourt
Moriz Thausing
Painting
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Théophile Gautier
Walter Pater
William Makepeace Thackeray

(WATTEAU)

EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT

THE NIGHT WATCH

Aimé Giron
Alexandre Dumas
Charles Lamb
Edmond de Goncourt
Edward T. Cook
Eugène Fromentin
F.A. Gruyer
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Addington Symonds
John Ruskin
Jules de Goncourt
Moriz Thausing
Painting
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Théophile Gautier
Walter Pater
William Makepeace Thackeray

(REMBRANDT)

EUGÈNE FROMENTIN

Edward T. Cook

SPRING

THE LAST JUDGEMENT

AURORA

MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE

MAGDALEN IN THE DESERT

THE ASSUMPTION OF THE VIRGIN

THE MADONNA OF THE ROCKS

BANQUET OF THE ARQUEBUSIERS

L'EMBARQUEMENT POUR L'ÎLE DE CYTHÈRE

THE NIGHT WATCH