At Prior park and other papers . ans, and so forth. From so potent and rev-erend an assembly, one can but select for recogni-tion, as one does in real life, a few of those whomone knows best or likes most. In such circum-stances, we naturally look first for the person who,if not precisely the host, is certainly the ordonna-teur de la fete: to wit—Carmontelle is not difficult to find, as he naturally figuresin the group attached to the Orleans on a terrace, with garden trees in the back-ground, he is depicted in the act of taking one ofthe portraits to which, accordi
At Prior park and other papers . ans, and so forth. From so potent and rev-erend an assembly, one can but select for recogni-tion, as one does in real life, a few of those whomone knows best or likes most. In such circum-stances, we naturally look first for the person who,if not precisely the host, is certainly the ordonna-teur de la fete: to wit—Carmontelle is not difficult to find, as he naturally figuresin the group attached to the Orleans on a terrace, with garden trees in the back-ground, he is depicted in the act of taking one ofthe portraits to which, according to tradition,he was seldom able to devote more than a coupleof hours. He is magnificently attired in a suit ofgarnet velvet, with green spots, and wears a bagof the same material. His hair is elaboratelydressed in the fashion of 1762 or thereabouts,which would make him between forty and him, on an elegant Louis-Quinze table,lies the large book or album which Mme. deGenlis describes him as bringing into the room. CARMONTELLE: BY HIMSELF (from gruyers chantilly: les portraits de carmontelle, BY permission OF MM. PLON-NOURRIT ET CIE.) The Portraits of Cannontelle 49 at Villers-Cotterets after dinner in order to sketchthe most recent arrivals. His artistic stock-in-trade is of the simplest. Red chalk for the flesh,black chalk for the dress j a little water or body-colour for the final tints—this is all he wants. Hisappearance is that of a singularly methodical andself-possessed person, with comely features, and theair of a careful but calm investigator, of whom onemay well believe, in Mme. de Genlis words, thatMl joignait beaucoup de bonhomie a Iesprit le plusobservateur, deux choses bien rarement reunies. ^In royalties Carmontelles gallery is not the Well-Beloved did not apparently figureamong the sitters, nor need his absence be re-gretted. On the other hand, there is an excellentportrait of the unfortunate Dauphin, in queue andcadogan, with his han
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