watteau-composition

Updated: June 20, 2025

The great historic house had, for Milly, beyond terrace and garden, as the centre of an almost extravagantly grand Watteau-composition, a tone as of old gold kept "down" by the quality of the air, summer full-flushed, but attuned to the general perfect taste.

Henry James - The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2