. Jules Bastien-Lepage and his art. A memoir. se fantastic apparitions, andthat the expression of Jeannes face alone shouldexplain to the spectator the emotion caused by thehallucination to which she was a prey. I remindedhim of the sleep-walking scene in Macbeth: thedoctor and the chamber-woman, I said, do not seethe terrible things that dilate the pupils of LadyMacbeth, but from her face and gestures they knowthat there is something terrible ; the effect is onlythe greater, because, after haying perceived this, theimagination of the spectator increases it. Suppressyour phantoms and your pict
. Jules Bastien-Lepage and his art. A memoir. se fantastic apparitions, andthat the expression of Jeannes face alone shouldexplain to the spectator the emotion caused by thehallucination to which she was a prey. I remindedhim of the sleep-walking scene in Macbeth: thedoctor and the chamber-woman, I said, do not seethe terrible things that dilate the pupils of LadyMacbeth, but from her face and gestures they knowthat there is something terrible ; the effect is onlythe greater, because, after haying perceived this, theimagination of the spectator increases it. Suppressyour phantoms and your picture will gain in sincerityand dramatic intensity. But Jules held to the personification of the voices,and our discussions ended without either the one orthe other being convinced. Nevertheless, my objec-1 ion had impressed him, and he wanted to show hiswork to his friends before it was quite finished. Come, lie wrote to me, about the 15th ofSeptember, F. is quite disposed to come ; he reallywants <n conio to Damvillers. Everything will go. Joan of Abc Listening io mi. Voices. By Jules Busticit-Lipage. AS MAN AND ABTIST. 57 beautifully. You will see my picture of .Jeanne dArcwell advanced, and somebody coming from I);u,is willdo nit no harm. . ?• It you knew how I work (letter to Ch. Baude)you would be less surprised. My picture is gettingon. and getting on well; all, except the voices, isBketched, and some parts are begun. I think I havefound a head for my Jeanne dArc, and everybodythinks she expresses well the resolution to set out,while keeping the charming simplicity of the , I think the attitude is very chaste and verysweet, as it ought to be in the figure that I want torepresent ; . . but if I am to see you soon, I preferto leave you the pleasure of surprise and of the firstimpression of the picture ; you will judge of it better,and you will be able to say better what you think ofit. . Jeanne dArc appeared in the Salon of 1880, withili«i portrait of M. An
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