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Snodgrass at Mrs. Leo Hunter's fete champetre? I wish I could fathom Aunt Jessica's reasons for her attempts at involving me in her social mountebankery. If the girls get no better dance-partners than me, heaven help them! Only a fortnight ago I drove with them to Hurlingham.
She opened her fan, a fine old painted fan of the last century, and looked at the picture, which represented a fete champetre a lady with a guitar, singing, and a group of dancers round a garlanded Hermes. "We go out so little," murmured the marquis, "since my poor father's death." "But MY dear father is still alive, my friend," said his wife.
Parker's Hotel Departure, and romantic Road Fête Champetre in a Village on a hill at Montreuil Ruined Church and Convent. I had heard so bad a report of Boulogne, as to be agreeably surprised when I found it so little deserving it. I spent the greater part of a day in it with much pleasure, and but that I wished to get to Paris, should have continued longer.
Ricketts gives the Pitti "Concert" and the Caterina Cornaro to Titian without a tremor. Our own National Gallery "S. Liberate" is not mentioned by some at all; the Paris "Concert Champêtre," in which most of the judges believe so absolutely, Signor Lionello Venturi gives to Piombo. The Giovanelli picture and the Castel Franco altar-piece alone remain above suspicion in every book.
A fete Champetre had brought "all of Delhi" together, and the conspicuous absence of "the French Countess" was the reigning sensation. The tall, bent form of Hugh Fraser Johnstone was prominent reigning as host, under a great marquee.
My mail comes there, and the railway station is there, and everyone knows me. The idea that I can't go there gives me, for the first time since the battle, a shut-in feeling. I talked to the garde champêtre, whom I met on the road, as I returned from the mairie, and I asked him what he thought about the risk of my going to Couilly.
The black gave some glowing details of many a grand ball and fete champetre that had taken place on the plantation, and hinted at the expensive life which "young missa" led while in the city, where she usually resided during most part of the winter. All this I could easily credit.
It might be made into a sort of picnic, a fête champêtre; the beautiful monkey could help, and he could send a boy over to the mill to fetch Phoebe. They would make a day of it the kind of pastoral occasion which cannot exactly be called artificial and yet which does not in the least represent the actual life of those who live by land.
The former is represented by a Fête Champêtre, 689, R. wall: the latter by the Four Seasons, 462-465, R. wall; on the L. wall, 468, The Music Lesson, and 469, Innocence, both from the Palace of Fontainebleau. The Fête Galante dies with these artists whom we shall meet again better represented in the Salle La Caze.
I am summoned to give my opinion about certain illuminations and decorations for a fete champetre which Mr. L is so kind as to give in honour of my birthday just at the time I am complaining of his neglect! No, dear mother, I hope I have not complained of him, but of myself: and it is your business to teach your daughter to be more reasonable. Write soon and fully to Your affectionate
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