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Word: gersaint (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Five years after he had promised it, the Academy lost patience and gave him a month. In seven days Watteau dashed off the Embarquement pour Cythère. Again, to limber up his fingers, he painted in eight days the famed signboard for the decorator's shop of his friend Gersaint, which somebody later cut in two. Frederick the Great, however, picked up both halves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Metropolitan's Watteau | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

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