The Spirit of the Letter in Painting Author:Text by Jean Leymarie translated from the French by James Emmons 30 Masterpieces of painting, ranging from the 17th to the 20th century, in which a letter is the keynote of the composition. The carefully selected illustrations got to form an organic whole, and together they show, in the most vivid colors, the spirit in which the great painters from Rembrandt to Renoir have treated the subject of letters and l... more »etter writing.« less