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Rococo title print by Juste Aurele Meissonnier, 1738-1749, etching on paper, 51.6 x 34.9 cm, RijksmuseumLarge sculpture gallery built on arches and lit from above . . ., by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, circa 1750, etching, size of the entire sheet: 49.4 × 33.5 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)
"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;[…]."
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