mignardise

Updated: May 4, 2025

So in the midst of the Mignardise of Louis Quinze painting it is only superficially surprising to find a painter of the original force and flavor of Chardin. His wholesome and yet subtle variations from the art

W. C. (William Crary) Brownell - French Art: Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture

In the earliest forms of the earlier poems not seldom, and occasionally in even the latest forms of the later, the exquisiteness of the poet's touch in music and in painting, in fancy and in form, did sometimes pass into something like finicalness, into what is called in another language mignardise.

George Saintsbury - A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)