Meissonier, his life and his art . /: On every side, terrorand slaughter. Samsonis like a mower sweepingdown the grain. ThePhilistines beg for mercyin vain; they are . Poche, formerly amodel at the Ecole desBeaux Arts, now a cura-tor there, sat to me once for the figure. It is forty years since Imade this sketch for the Savisou. J^. C\ 4r^ SKETCH FOR SAMSON. I should like to paint a picture, the sketch for which was givento Stevens, a very interesting subject : a sick man in bed ; the doctor examines him, listeningto his pulsations; friendsj^t and relatives, whose several mental attit
Meissonier, his life and his art . /: On every side, terrorand slaughter. Samsonis like a mower sweepingdown the grain. ThePhilistines beg for mercyin vain; they are . Poche, formerly amodel at the Ecole desBeaux Arts, now a cura-tor there, sat to me once for the figure. It is forty years since Imade this sketch for the Savisou. J^. C\ 4r^ SKETCH FOR SAMSON. I should like to paint a picture, the sketch for which was givento Stevens, a very interesting subject : a sick man in bed ; the doctor examines him, listeningto his pulsations; friendsj^t and relatives, whose several mental attitudes are expressed in their ^ •>it/--,u-atv x^^^?^y \ faces, seek to read the truth in the eyes of theA^^^i^t^^^jyf f/wSljf^^ doctor, who is lost in con- /iz ;%&_J&3Bp3ib->^ -^- ^^ templation, plunged in the depths of SKETCH FOR SAMSON. The Due dAumale once thought of asking me to paint a Death ofTurenne for him, but I could not represent Turenne struck down,overcome, Turenne at the moment of the legendary bullet, when Saint 230 MEISSONIER Hilaire becomes the hero of the drama b) his famous repartee. No,if I paint Turenne, it shall be with all his soul in his face, in the dinof battle. These two little figures will be amusing on the old staircase atLausanne. The young girl I first imagined tripped down, erect andsimple, a vague delight in her heart, her hand on the young mans lady of this second conception is rather an enamoured woman,hanging over her lover. Why should we not suppose him to be JeanJacques himself .* Gauthiers quatrain on my little picture, The Chariot, comes intomy head on this road which I introduced in the composition : Le carrosse dor^ roule par la campagneEscorte de seigneurs et de chevaux dames, craignez quon ne vous accompagnePlus pour voler vos cceur
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