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(From the book: "Depth of Glory")

Wow Marvin,

The goofy drawing is something you just ignore in the Ingres? (like nature). And still he is better than David? Why? Because you read that somewhere? Most texts will tell you that Bouguereau and Sargent were hacks. In the last 25 years that has slowly been revised, thank goodness.

These statements really tell me a lot about your opinions...unless you were joking. I miss jokes on forums sometimes.

Not joking. I was merely responding to what, in my judgment, was a misguided ranking of two of France

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