“I assert,” Â said Bastien-Lepage, “that when one paints the past, it should at any rate be made to look like something human, and correspond with what one actually sees around one … Â and if one had a fancy to represent the Prodigal Son or Priam at the feet of Achilles … Â one would paint…
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