chef-d'luvre

Updated: June 16, 2025

In this room there was also the chef-d'luvre of Correggio his celebrated Notte, or the Nativity of Jesus; and, that you may know what I ought to have thought, I will quote you a sentence from Wilkie. "All the powers of art are here united to make a perfect work.

Harriet Beecher Stowe - Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2