Meissonier, his life and his art . THE MASTER 145 Raphael was a supreme harmony made up of famihar notes. . .Michelangelo, Rembrandt were the true originals. Gemito, in his. THE CONNOISSEURS. ( Hottinguers Collection.) ardent and artless fashion, lighted upon the best and most astonishingdefinition of their genius. He said to me that the man of the Sistine 146 MEISSONIER Chapel tokl one things ones own father antl mother could notteach one. How admirable is this drawing of Psyche by Raphael ! It shouldbe framed in diamonds. What a marvel, what a lesson ! . . Itis sketched without the s
Meissonier, his life and his art . THE MASTER 145 Raphael was a supreme harmony made up of famihar notes. . .Michelangelo, Rembrandt were the true originals. Gemito, in his. THE CONNOISSEURS. ( Hottinguers Collection.) ardent and artless fashion, lighted upon the best and most astonishingdefinition of their genius. He said to me that the man of the Sistine 146 MEISSONIER Chapel tokl one things ones own father antl mother could notteach one. How admirable is this drawing of Psyche by Raphael ! It shouldbe framed in diamonds. What a marvel, what a lesson ! . . Itis sketched without the slightest hesitation . . Scarcely a linere-touched . . the pencil plays freely, with all the suppleness of thetissues themselves . . Compare Domenichinos Conniiimioii of S. fcroiiic with RaphaelsTiansJigHratioii. It takes a painters eye to see how one is a successfuleffort, the other a labour of love. The impression produced by an admirable little drawing, such as thePsyche in the Louvre, is intensihed a hundredfold by this importantwork, on which Raphael has bestowed the same care. . What a lesson for a painter is this drawing at Milan ! The masterof tast
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