Meissonier, his life and his art . .MEISSONIER IN 1S72. and poverty have been my lot sincenot help to bring it upon you 35° APPENDIX. MEISSONIER IN 1878. (In the garden at Poissy.) again and, with as mucli calmness as hedrawing, on which his fate looking at it for some minutesPoticr asked, What did }OU copy thisfrom ? And when the young manassured him it was original— Uponmy word, said he, I think I mustretract. Forget what I said the otherday, and come to mc as soon as youlike. Meissonicr installed himself inPoticrs studio there and then, andfrom that moment, set to work withth
Meissonier, his life and his art . .MEISSONIER IN 1S72. and poverty have been my lot sincenot help to bring it upon you 35° APPENDIX. MEISSONIER IN 1878. (In the garden at Poissy.) again and, with as mucli calmness as hedrawing, on which his fate looking at it for some minutesPoticr asked, What did }OU copy thisfrom ? And when the young manassured him it was original— Uponmy word, said he, I think I mustretract. Forget what I said the otherday, and come to mc as soon as youlike. Meissonicr installed himself inPoticrs studio there and then, andfrom that moment, set to work withthe utmost eagerness to learn all hismaster could teach him. His progresswas so rapid that Potier, feeling hehad nearly come to the end of his re-sources as a guide for this gifted pupil,was the first to advise that be placed under a more distin-guished He himself generous-ly procured his admission to Leon As may be supposed, objec-tions of this sort were powerlessto shake Meissoniers they did was to .show himthe nccessit) of trj-ing his luckelsewhere, and he started afreshin search of
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