. Gérôme : the life and works of Jean Léon Gérôme . red from anupper window by •> is a precious example ol delicate and elaborate workmanship. Its careful drawing will be enjoyed by alllovers of form, who will also like its sound and profoundly studied modeling,which is everywhere observable in the rendering of textures, light, and shade. TbisHueau Caire was one oi the famous twelve seen at the Universal Exposition of 1878. Paul Lenoir, strolling day after lay with Gerome through thesefascinating streets, and with him stopping to note all the peculiarities ol life inthis typical
. Gérôme : the life and works of Jean Léon Gérôme . red from anupper window by •> is a precious example ol delicate and elaborate workmanship. Its careful drawing will be enjoyed by alllovers of form, who will also like its sound and profoundly studied modeling,which is everywhere observable in the rendering of textures, light, and shade. TbisHueau Caire was one oi the famous twelve seen at the Universal Exposition of 1878. Paul Lenoir, strolling day after lay with Gerome through thesefascinating streets, and with him stopping to note all the peculiarities ol life inthis typical Eastern city, thus records their impressions: Cairo is more the capital of Egypt than Paris is ol France, tor the good rea-son that Paris is only a city, and Cairo is in itsell a whole province. linked it ismore than a province, it is a world; it is all the Orient, past, present and lo , nil, omplete as at the time oi the Mamelukes, as brilliant as at its zenith, as picturesque as it was under the caliphs. To think that one could see everything,. c_>-*-t 214 I WD WORKS Of _// IX I G&RdMl study everything, during a three years residence there, would be a great impressions and notes then can only be the thousandtb part of the notes ;m<limpressions unrecorded. So mucb premised, Yallaht Yallahf and forward!The Mouski is an admirable type oi the mosl animated and brilliant strei I oiCairo This immense avenue offers a rdsu///,• ol all thai is picturesque and strik-ing in the busy city life l the East. An endless row ol shops, crowded witbgoods, most extraordinary in their variety and profusion, cafes, hairdressers,butchers, antiquaries, shoemakers, and kitchens in the open aii cadi followsthe other in mosl unexpected succession borrowing from their incongruousneighborhood a new cachet oi oddity. Everywhere one sees open chests and boxes, hall capsized in the street to attract customers. To make the amateurwalk over the merchandise, in order to force hi
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