La Fresnaye

American  

[la fre-ney] / la frɛˈneɪ /

noun

1. Roger de 1885–1925, French painter.

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Example Sentences

Next to it is something not that fabulous: Roger de la Fresnaye’s “Artillery,” a stylish bit of tepid Cubism that clings to reality, tossing in a little Futurism for good measure.

From New York Times

The birds were worked out by himself after his return home, with the assistance of the well-known French ornithologist the Baron F. de la Fresnaye.

From Project Gutenberg

D’Orbigny’s types are now mostly in the French National Collection at Paris, though a few of them, which cannot be found there, are supposed to have been retained in the De la Fresnaye Collection, and if so are now in the museum of the Boston Society of Natural History.

From Project Gutenberg

Vauquelin de la Fresnaye follows Ronsard and Du Bellay in urging the use of new and dialect words, the employment of terms and comparisons from the mechanic arts, and the various other doctrines by which the Pl�iade is distinguished from the school of Malherbe.

From Project Gutenberg

The last expression of the poetic theories of the Pl�iade is to be found in the didactic poem of Vauquelin de la Fresnaye, L'Art Po�tique fran�ois, o� l'on peut remarquer la perfection et le d�faut des anciennes et des modernes po�sies.

From Project Gutenberg