Excerpt from Antoine Watteau
The bibliography of the subject would be incomplete, indeed, without some reference to Walter Pater's charming sketch, A Prince of Court Painters in Imaginary Portraits, though it does not profess to be more than a delicate structure built up of fact and of fancy suggested by fact. None the less is the Imaginary Portrait one of rare subtlety and charm, finely embodying with greater reticence and less vividness the modern conception which we owe to the Goncourts.
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