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Updated: May 22, 2025
One entertainer last winter introduced live swans and small canaries to enliven his dinner. The swans splashed rather disagreeably. "Do you know why he had the swans?" said a lady to a gentleman. "I suppose, he wanted the Ledas of society," said the gentleman. "Well, yes," said the lady, "but I did not know, although he is as rich as a Jew, that he was a Jupiter."
Mammon would never have taken his eyes off the pavement; mine soon left the contemplation of it, and fixed on St. Peter's thumb, enshrined with a degree of elegance, and adorned by some malapert enthusiast with several of the most delicate antique cameos I ever beheld; the subjects, Ledas and sleeping Venuses, are a little too pagan, one should think, for an apostle's finger.
Chapu's works, and such exceptions as the heads of Baudry and Renan already mentioned, apart, one perceives that the modern school has made too many statues of the République, too many "Ledas" and "Susannahs" and "Quand-Mêmes" and "Gloria Victis." And its penchant for Renaissance canons only emphasizes the absolute commonplace of many of these.
The remainder of the gallery comprises mythological subjects, such as nude Venuses, Ledas, Graces, and, in short, a general apotheosis of nudity, once fresh and rosy perhaps, but yellow and dingy in our day, and retaining only a traditionary charm.
I merely know enough to keep out of it when you are using models. That is safest, isn't it?" He said, intensely amused: "It might be safer not to give pink teas while I am working from the nude." "Duane! Do you think me a perfect ninny? Anyway, you're not always painting Venus and Ariadne and horrid Ledas, are you?"
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