“A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine.”
Canto 1, stanza 1
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I
“[ Bazille.. ] had not died romantically, galloping over a Delacroix' battlefield…. but stupidly, during the retreat, on a muddy road…. that pure-hearted gentle knight.. [quote, shortly after 1870, on the death of Bazille].”
as cited in Renoir, my Father, Jean Renoir; p. 124; as quoted in The private lives of the Impressionists, Sue Roe, Harpen Collins Publishers, New York 2006, p. 83 + 94
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I can't tell you how much I enjoyed reading this article and some other things about Delacroix..
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