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Updated: July 17, 2025
we come upon some charming works by the brothers Lenain, whom Félibien dismisses in a few lines, while giving scores of pages to artists whose names and works have long been forgotten.
He did well to keep his distance. What do the Cervins want with him? The others shrugged their shoulders. 'They say his Maenad would be magnificent if he could keep sober enough to finish her, said Lenain; 'it is his last chance; he will go under altogether if he fails; he is almost done for already. 'And what a gift! said Alphonse, in a lofty tone of critical regret.
The tall black-bearded Lenain was older, had been for years in Taranne's atelier, was an excellent draughtsman, and was now just beginning seriously upon the painting of large pictures for exhibition. In his thin long face there was a pinched and anxious look, as though in the artist's inmost mind there lay hidden the presentiment of failure.
Olivier, looking backward, saw in Gothic statuary all the types of the provinces of to-day: and so in the drawings of a Clouet and a Dumoustier, the weary ironical faces of worldly men and intellectuals: or in the work of a Lenain the clear eyes of the laborers and peasants of Ile-de-France or Picardy. And the thoughts of the men of old days lived in the minds of the present day.
'Money! shouted Dumesnil, and swinging round to his own table again he poured out hot denunciations of the money-grabbing reptiles of to-day who shelter themselves behind the sacred name of art. Meanwhile the man at whom it was all levelled sipped his coffee quietly and took no notice. 'Ah, a song! cried Alphonse. 'Lenain, vois-tu? It's that little devil Perinot.
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