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Pradier's Greek inspiration has something Swiss about it, one may say he was a Genevan though his figures were simple and largely treated. He had a keen sense for the feminine element the ewig Weibliche and expressed it plastically with a zest approaching gusto. Yet his statues are women rather than statues, and, more than that, are handsome rather than beautiful.
In the afternoon I had wrecked myself on Rousseau's Island, where I sat on a bench staring at Pradier's poor statue of Jean Jacques until I fancied that the ugly bronze cannibal was making mouths at me. When the aunt has a headache, I suffer. Flemming, you must see Miss Denham, if only for a moment." "Of course I should like to see her, Ned."
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