dilectissimae

Updated: May 18, 2025

But D'Orsay's painting of portraits is inexcusable. The aesthetic vision of a dandy should be bounded by his own mirror. A few crayon sketches of himself dilectissimae imagines are as much as he should ever do. That D'Orsay's portraits, even his much-approved portrait of the Duke of Wellington, are quite amateurish, is no excuse.

Sir Max Beerbohm - The Works of Max Beerbohm