Nature is too green and badly lit
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"Selon une lettre à Lancret, il trouva la nature fort désagréable, trop verte, mal éclairée. [...] Lancret répondait à Boucher: «Je suis de votre sentiment; la nature manque d’harmonie et de séduction."--"Boucher et la peinture sous Louis XV" (1843) by Arsène Houssaye |
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"La nature est trop verte et mal éclairée" (nature is too green and badly lit) is a dictum by François Boucher uttered in a letter to Nicolas Lancret. The first mention of the dictum is in "Boucher et la peinture sous Louis XV" (1843) by Arsène Houssaye.
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