Meissonier, his life and his art . THE BRIDGE OF POISSY. (Madame Meissoniers collection.) MEISSONIERS WISDOM. M I MAN Y art has been my constant preoccupa-tion, for many long years. I thoughtabout it perpetually, even before Ibegan to practise it, and looking back now,into the far distant past, I like to recall thosethoughts of mine. I often fancy the ideas thathaunt me are good ones, and might be use-ful,—that I ouo^ht to have set them down. Itis wrong, perhaps, to have let them wanderidly and unregistered athwart our desultorytalks. But I have never recorded them ; why ?Why, indeed! but beca
Meissonier, his life and his art . THE BRIDGE OF POISSY. (Madame Meissoniers collection.) MEISSONIERS WISDOM. M I MAN Y art has been my constant preoccupa-tion, for many long years. I thoughtabout it perpetually, even before Ibegan to practise it, and looking back now,into the far distant past, I like to recall thosethoughts of mine. I often fancy the ideas thathaunt me are good ones, and might be use-ful,—that I ouo^ht to have set them down. Itis wrong, perhaps, to have let them wanderidly and unregistered athwart our desultorytalks. But I have never recorded them ; why ?Why, indeed! but because there is nothingso pleasant as to caress ones own thoughts,and be lulled by them ; while it Is far fromOFFICER OF THE FIRST REPUBLIC, easy to dress them up becommgly and (Washed Drawing.) , , ? i I show them to the world m decent garments !Far from easy, indeed! especially for us painters ! We arc i?A- /^^} 124 MRISSONIRR hardly ever forgiven for talking about our own Inisincss, and yetpeople should consider that \vc have; really learnt it,—in the old daysat least, we did,—and that, to do it
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