One of these few was the sculptor Alfred Lenoir, in a remarkable work
executed quite at the end of Edmond de Goncourt's life. His white
marble bust well expresses the patrician of letters, the collector, the
worshipper of all kinds of beauty. A voluptuous thrill seems to stir the
nostrils, a flash of sympathetic observation to gleam from the deep set
eyes.
[Illustration: EDMOND DE GONCOURT.
By Eugène Carrière.