of character in their living models, and in those models’ backgrounds,
has been, above all things, precious; to whom the presence of the
eccentric has been valuable, and the presence of beauty, superfluous,
not to say burdensome. But, with M. Helleu, beauty--beauty of no
conventional order, the rapid charm of movement, of expression, of
contour--is the inspiring and satisfactory thing. He lives in its
intimacy. And he reveals it--much as Watteau did, yet in ways how
fearlessly modern!--to the spectator of his work.
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] In nearly every case the illustration is more or less reduced from
the original.
[2] The editor of “The Magazine of Art” has assured me, in its pages,
that Mr. Whistler swore in Court that he was born in St. Petersburg.
[3] The wildish sky is to be found only in the First State, it is
non-existent in the second, which is yet a charming thing, in its own
way.