 Several critics mentioned Bertin 's hands . Twentieth @-@ century art historian Albert Boime described them as " powerful , vulturine ... grasping his thighs in a gesture ... projecting ... enormous strength controlled " . Some contemporary critics were not so kind . The photographer and critic Félix Tournachon was harshly critical , and disparaged what he saw as a " fantastical bundle of flesh ... under which , instead of bones and muscles , there can only be intestines – this flatulent hand , the rumbling of which I can hear ! " Bertin 's hands made a different impression on the critic F. de Lagenevais , who remarked : " A mediocre artist would have modified them , he would have replaced those swollen joints with the cylindrical fingers of the first handy model ; but by this single alteration he would have changed the expression of the whole personality ... the energetic and mighty nature " . 
 Several critics mentioned Bertin <a href='null_genetive' title='1'><mark>'s</mark></a>hands . Twentieth @-@ century art historian Albert Boime described them as " powerful , vulturine ... grasping his thighs in a gesture ... projecting ... enormous strength controlled " . Some contemporary critics <a href='negative_concord' title='2'><mark>were</mark></a> <a href='negative_concord' title='3'><mark>not</mark></a>so kind . The photographer and critic Félix Tournachon was harshly critical , and disparaged what he saw as a " fantastical bundle of flesh ... under which , instead of bones and muscles , <a href='dey_it' title='4'><mark>there</mark></a> can only be intestines – this flatulent hand , the rumbling of which I can hear ! " Bertin <a href='null_genetive' title='5'><mark>'s</mark></a>hands made a different impression on the critic F. de Lagenevais , <a href='null_relcl' title='6'><mark>who</mark></a>remarked : " A mediocre artist would <a href='been_done' title='7'><mark>have</mark></a> modified them , he would <a href='been_done' title='8'><mark>have</mark></a> replaced those swollen joints with the cylindrical fingers of the first handy model ; but by this single alteration he would <a href='been_done' title='9'><mark>have</mark></a> changed the expression of the whole personality ... the energetic and mighty nature " . 
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