In short, he has his own manner; he is the Boucher, the Watteau of our
day. We must let him do as he will; it can do no harm at the present
time, and in the state the school is in. He deceives himself, but it is
not given to every one to deceive themselves like him; his talent has a
sure foundation. What I cannot forgive him is that he always draws the
same heads, the same arms, and the same hands. All his faces have the
same expression, and this expression is always the same grimace. It is
not thus we should envisage nature, we who are disciples and admirers of
the ancients.
_L. David._