[214] Entretiens sur les Vies et sur les Ouvrages des plus Excellens Peintres Anciens et Modernes. André Félibien. Paris, 1666-1688.
[215] The Goldsmiths' Guild of Paris was accustomed, from 1630-1701, to present to Notre Dame an ex-voto picture every May-day, painted by the most renowned artist of the time.
[216] The reader may be referred to Hazlitt's essay, On a Landscape of Nicholas Poussin, as an antidote to Ruskin's wayward criticism.
[217] La Gloire du Dome du Val de Grâce. The subject of the picture is La Gloire des Bienheureux, and contains 200 figures.
[218] Coresus, a priest of Bacchus at Calydon, whose love was scorned by the nymph Callirrhoe, called forth a pestilence on the land. The Calydonians, ordered by the oracle to sacrifice the nymph, led her to the altar. Coresus, forgetting his resentment, sacrificed himself instead of her, who, conscious of ingratitude, killed herself at a fountain.
[219] Whistler, while disliking his art, was wont to wish he had been his pupil.
[220] Pictures by living artists are excluded from the Louvre.
[221] The student of history will not need to be reminded that the famous retreat of the Ten Thousand, so dramatically described by Xenophon, was occasioned by the death in battle of their ally Cyrus, in his ill-omened attempt to dispossess his brother, Artaxerxes, of the crown of Persia.
[222] Open, 2-4, by ticket obtained at the Secretary's office.
[223] Open, 10-4, daily, except Chief Festivals.