A history of with a preface by Frank Brangwyn . OF PAINTING might show the draped figure to be more alluring than the WHEREIN naked. But there is a tradition that would seem as likely A COMET —were it not that the dates are challenged, though not BURSTS convincingly—for it would appear that the lady is the OVER THE famed Duchess of Alba, whose intrigue with the painter WRECKAGE . • OF SPAIN was a by-word. Goya, so runs the gossip, had painted the AMn Duchess as a Venus, when the Duke expressed keen interest jj y tjmtnfs to see her portrait ; and Goya hurriedly painted another, THE
A history of with a preface by Frank Brangwyn . OF PAINTING might show the draped figure to be more alluring than the WHEREIN naked. But there is a tradition that would seem as likely A COMET —were it not that the dates are challenged, though not BURSTS convincingly—for it would appear that the lady is the OVER THE famed Duchess of Alba, whose intrigue with the painter WRECKAGE . • OF SPAIN was a by-word. Goya, so runs the gossip, had painted the AMn Duchess as a Venus, when the Duke expressed keen interest jj y tjmtnfs to see her portrait ; and Goya hurriedly painted another, THE HID- in which she reclines, arrayed, to quell the great mans EOUSNESS jealousy. Goya seems to have caught the fancy of the OF THE great ladies of the Court, and the worship that the NIGHT IN beauties lavished upon him and his wonderful voice was ITS PASSING one of the scandals of the day. But Goya was near done with the wild intrigues of these days. A mightier passion than lust was awakening in the man, and was soon to sweep him towards a passionate
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