Meissonier, his life and his art . MEISSONIER S STUDY IN PARIS. like Rembrandts end. Only he ruined himself buying beautiful things,and I am ruining myself piling stones one on top of the other. Ah !how I should like to turn my house in Paris into a Foundation, a sortof Museum and School of Art. The very details of the architecturesuit the idea. Ah ! how I wish that my water-colour, 1805, were not leaving thecountry, even for England, and that it had been bought by a French- 336 MEISSONIER man. America keeps everything .sh(! carries away. I would not liavctlie picture taken away from Europe fo
Meissonier, his life and his art . MEISSONIER S STUDY IN PARIS. like Rembrandts end. Only he ruined himself buying beautiful things,and I am ruining myself piling stones one on top of the other. Ah !how I should like to turn my house in Paris into a Foundation, a sortof Museum and School of Art. The very details of the architecturesuit the idea. Ah ! how I wish that my water-colour, 1805, were not leaving thecountry, even for England, and that it had been bought by a French- 336 MEISSONIER man. America keeps everything .sh(! carries away. I would not liavctlie picture taken away from Europe for the world. . This iSo^ will kill me ; I wonder sometimes if I shall go on withit to the end. Oh ! my dear, how w(;ary I am. This iSo^ has stolenthree or four years of the few yet remaining to me. I am utterl)-exhausted, this strcmuous toil will kill me. At my age, seventy-two, I. CARYATIDS nV MEISSONIKR l-OK A IN HIS HOLSE IN TARIS. cannot take an hours rest. And unlike my friend Chenavard, Icannot find comfort in a philosophic resignation, and indifference toworldly things. I am almost despairing, but my thoughts rise heaven-wards, turning more and more to God. I have come to the end ofall things, life among the number. How bitterly I regret that I wasunable to say what I felt and wished, while I was still young andvigorous. . Bacchus. (pen drawing.
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