Meissonier, his life and his art . to face with the beautiful, is to experience anintoxicating emotion of your whole being. Only the artist, the creator,knows the deep delights of conception and production. What inexpressible joy when, in a transport of admiration, a verypassion of truth, we caress the beauty of line and of Nature againand yet again ! One ought to know (and this is rare) how to wear a costumewith the ease and grace of the period, to drape a velvet mantle, ART 195 wear cloak and rapier, or don the feathered cap in true sixteenthcentury style. It is the way the cap is set on the
Meissonier, his life and his art . to face with the beautiful, is to experience anintoxicating emotion of your whole being. Only the artist, the creator,knows the deep delights of conception and production. What inexpressible joy when, in a transport of admiration, a verypassion of truth, we caress the beauty of line and of Nature againand yet again ! One ought to know (and this is rare) how to wear a costumewith the ease and grace of the period, to drape a velvet mantle, ART 195 wear cloak and rapier, or don the feathered cap in true sixteenthcentury style. It is the way the cap is set on the head which givesit its special character. <»o, How often have I said to young men who paint futile sub-jects with the greatest talent : Our only raison detre is to teachothers to notice and admire and see what is beautiful and so-and-so may be a dull painter, but he is a true has painted some inimitable bits in his life. But nothing beyondbits. Rome is necessary to teach us style, nobility, and The Museum of Copiesmay be an excellent thingfor artists, for those whohave knowledge. Even amediocre copy gives a betteridea of a picture than anyengraving, because it re-produces the tonality of thecolours. We are able to imagine the masters touch, alongside the copyists poor rendering ofit. Regnaults bad copy of Las Lanzas interests me in spite of itsinferiority, for I know enough of Velazquez to be able to imagine hisexecution in the scale of colour indicated. LANDSCAPE. (Sketch in Wash.) It is a delight to be able to work in the open air, and the peacefullandscape painters are a happy race. They do not suffer from theirnerves like the rest of us! How many men, extremely clever in their workmanship, lackone supreme quality, which can never be learnt,—a namelesssomething without which they will never be able to compose. Just 196 MEISSONIKK as 110 woman who gives herself up to her dressmaker instead ofdirectinti^ her, will ever be well dressed. Ev
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