Meissonier, his life and his art . - her whom a secondmarriage had made the companion of his last jears, and who survives him todevote herself to his memory, we find a curious sketch of the programmeMeissonier had drawn up for his own guidance. From this, as from many otherfragments of these Notcs, we learn that Meissonier never decided upon theexecution of anj work without profound stud) of the meaning he sought toconvey. Before tracing a line on the canvas, he had made the subject his ownb) exhaustive mental anah-sis. But as regards all that pertains to execution, totruth of forms or effects
Meissonier, his life and his art . - her whom a secondmarriage had made the companion of his last jears, and who survives him todevote herself to his memory, we find a curious sketch of the programmeMeissonier had drawn up for his own guidance. From this, as from many otherfragments of these Notcs, we learn that Meissonier never decided upon theexecution of anj work without profound stud) of the meaning he sought toconvey. Before tracing a line on the canvas, he had made the subject his ownb) exhaustive mental anah-sis. But as regards all that pertains to execution, totruth of forms or effects, to a rigorous precision of st)-le, he never, to the very ,6) rr^^. PEN SKETCH. last, conceived himself to be sufficiently well informed, sufficiently sure ofhimself and of his powers, consummate as these really were. Hence theenormous collection of studies he left behind him, corresponding to each of hismore important pictures, some carcfull)- finished pictures or drawings, others waxmodels, treated with as much precision as if he had prepared them for also the incessant alterations he made in his pictures, while they were inprogress, not indeed, in the general arrangement of a composition he hadthoroughly worked out and decided upon, but in the improvement of importantdetails, which would have entirely satisfied others with a desire for perfectionless passionate than his. How often, goaded b)- this thirst for improvement,would he sacrifice passages already finished, and admirably finished, in order to See p. 243 of the APPENDIX 359 correct some almost imperceptible fault with wliich liis conscience reproachedhim, urging him perh
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