Meissonier, his life and his art . THE SCOUT. (In the possession of the Due dAumale. Chanti!ly Gallery.) is another Smoker, dressed inred, who also holds a pipe in hishand, and is occupied in muchthe same fashion. But histumbled garments, buttoned allawry, the three-cornered hatjambed down on his eye-brows, the ruffles and shirt-frill crumpled by a convulsivehand; the attitude of the ner-vous, feverish figure, thetwitch of the lips on theclay pipe stem, the resentfulthrust of the hand into theempty pocket, all proclaim theadventurer, or the unlucky phlegm of a peaceful con-science, a long puff
Meissonier, his life and his art . THE SCOUT. (In the possession of the Due dAumale. Chanti!ly Gallery.) is another Smoker, dressed inred, who also holds a pipe in hishand, and is occupied in muchthe same fashion. But histumbled garments, buttoned allawry, the three-cornered hatjambed down on his eye-brows, the ruffles and shirt-frill crumpled by a convulsivehand; the attitude of the ner-vous, feverish figure, thetwitch of the lips on theclay pipe stem, the resentfulthrust of the hand into theempty pocket, all proclaim theadventurer, or the unlucky phlegm of a peaceful con-science, a long puff ofsmoke, breathing it outagain in tiny cloudletswith a frugal desire tomake his pleasure him, on a spiral-legged table, stands ameasure of beer with apewter lid, and a talldrinking-glass. An inti-mate satisfaction beamsfrom that face, lined withdeep furrows, full of fig-ures, orderly habits, rigidhonesty ! We would handover our ledgers and to him without a mo-ments uneasiness. Here. (After THE SMOKKK. the original etchins by Meissonier.) HIS WORKS 37
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