Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1898 edition. Extrait: ...gives her no pause, for the time when women feared to go unattended into public places is long since gone by. She is sure to fall in with plenty of young dandies, the very pink of fashion, to flutter round her, and help her to criticise the pictures. The names ...
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Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1898 edition. Extrait: ...gives her no pause, for the time when women feared to go unattended into public places is long since gone by. She is sure to fall in with plenty of young dandies, the very pink of fashion, to flutter round her, and help her to criticise the pictures. The names of Horace Vernet, Delaroche, Decamps, Couture, Ingres, Delacroix, Scheffer, and Dubufe, salute her ears from every quarter, as she moves down the long rooms hung with canvases. She pauses an instant before Scheffer's "Marguerite," and mingles in the group deep in eager discussion of the mystic colouring inspired by the painter's study of Goethe, and the weird and curious charm of the whole composition. The picture of Jane Gray, by Delaroche, also arrests her steps. She is much struck by the figure of the executioner, and specially admires the indefinable and touching melancholy of the unhappy heroine's expression. She hears it whispered that the painter's model for the headsman's lovely victim is reported to be no less a person than Mme. Anais, a beautiful societaire of the Comedie Francaise; and, being resolved to know everything, she straightway tells her friends the story, vouching for its truth with an assertion that she had it from the artist's own lips. Giddy and dazed with flattery's incense, our fair one seeks her home at last; her maids disrobe her, and she submits herself to the hands of her hairdresser, a famous artist, who unites the skill of the physiognomist, the chemist, the draughtsman and the geometrician. This gentle executioner takes her lovely head and gazes at it with close attention. Next, compass in hand, he marks out curves and angles and triangles, he notes the distances between the...
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Very good and clean interior but with wear to binding and museum ex-lib. marks; could be restored. Pale green with gilt lettering and decoration; 180 pp. with 100 color plates and 250 bw text illustrations. Beautiful color plates by Francois Courboin and excellent text material.
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