Meissonier, his life and his art . THE BEAU. (In the possession of Baron E. de Rothschild.) 36 MEISSONIER. 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 the
Meissonier, his life and his art . THE BEAU. (In the possession of Baron E. de Rothschild.) 36 MEISSONIER. 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
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