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The scenery of Japan and its wonderfully beautiful Fuziyama would almost compel an artist to paint landscapes. Mrs. Perry says that her pictures of French and Japanese types are, in fact, portraits as truly as are those she is asked to paint. Her picture of a "Japanese Lacemaker" belongs to Mr. Quincy A. Shaw. It has been much admired in the exhibitions in which it has been seen.
I listened badly, thinking of that drop of moonlight which had this very night fallen on the lips of Catherine the lacemaker. At last he came to a stop and I asked on what foundation the Greeks had established the liking of the nymphs for satyrs. My teacher was so widely learned that he was always ready to reply to all questions. He told me: "That liking is based on a natural sympathy.
At first she had hated him with all the loathing she had felt for his mother, a weak and pretty young lacemaker whom the captain had been foolish enough to marry when he found out that she would not listen to his passionate addresses on any other condition.
The shoes he wears were made in our workshop, but the master still whistles for his pay, and he owes everybody the tailor, the lacemaker, the armourer, the girdlemaker, and the goldsmith. If an apprentice reminds him of the debt, let him beware of bruises."
You can come and look at them by yourself with your Baedeker." When they arrived at the Louvre Philip led his friend down the Long Gallery. "I should like to see The Gioconda," said Hayward. "Oh, my dear fellow, it's only literature," answered Philip. At last, in a small room, Philip stopped before The Lacemaker of Vermeer van Delft. "There, that's the best picture in the Louvre.
The shoes he wears were made in our workshop, but the master still whistles for his pay, and he owes everybody the tailor, the lacemaker, the armourer, the girdlemaker, and the goldsmith. If an apprentice reminds him of the debt, let him beware of bruises."
Here are the 21 canvases that are extant, and the prices paid: No. 1 A young woman weighing gold, 155 florins; 2 A milk girl, 175 florins; 3 The portrait of the painter in his studio, 45 florins; 4 A young woman playing the guitar, 70 florins; 5 A gentleman in his chamber, 95 florins; 6 A young lady playing the clavecin, with a gentleman who listens, 30 florins; 7 A young woman taking a letter from her servant, 70 florins; 8 A servant who has drunk too much asleep at a table, 62 florins; 9 A merry company, 73 florins; 10 A young lady and a gentleman making music, 81 florins; 11 A soldier with a laughing girl, 44 florins; 12 A young lacemaker, 28 florins; 13 View of Delft, 200 florins; 14 A house at Delft, 72 florins; 15 A view of some houses, 48 florins; 16 A young woman writing, 63 florins; 17 A young woman, 30 florins; 18 Young woman at a clavecin, 42 florins; 19 A portrait in antique costume, 36 florins; 20 and 21 Two pendants, 34 florins.
There were also Reboul, the baker; Hibley, the working-tailor; Gonzetta, the shoemaker; Durand, the joiner; Marchand, the lacemaker; Voileau, the sail-maker; Magu, the weaver; Poucy, the mason; Germiny, the cooper; and finally, Jasmin the barber and hair dresser, who was not the least of the Uneducated Poets.
One of these belonged to the most able lacemaker in the place, a hard-working woman, who kept seven little pupils in a sort of cupboard under the staircase, with a window into the back garden, "because," said she, "they did no work if they looked out into the front, there were so many gapsies;" these gapsies consisting of the very scanty traffic of the further end of Mackarel Lane.
She could hardly read small print, which, as she said, drew the eyes out of her head. My father used to pass an hour or two nightly at the tavern of the Little Bacchus; there also Jeannetae the hurdy-gurdy player and Catherine the lacemaker were regular frequenters.
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