flandrin

Those of you who have read with attention (none of us can read with too much attention), Molière's most perfect work, the _Misanthrope_, must remember Celiméne's description of her lovers, and her excellent reason for being unable to regard with any favour, "notre grand flandrin de vicomte, -- depuis que je l'ai vu, trois quarts d'heure durant, cracher dans un puits pour faire des ronds."

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859

Those of you who have read with attention (none of us can read with too much attention), Molière's most perfect work, 'The Misanthrope,' must remember Celimène's description of her lovers, and her excellent reason for being unable to regard with any favor, "notre grand flandrin de vicomte, -- depuis que je l'ai vu, trois quarts d'heure durant, cracher dans un puits pour faire des ronds."

Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 John Ruskin 1859