OUR ILLUSTRATION.
! i ' ,HBAD OFjA VENETIAN LADY. jThe original o£ this story, which is to be found in tho National Gallery, Melbourne, . is! from |the) easel of Eugene de Blaas, ab artist. o£ considerable promise. It makes a pleasing picture, the face reminding one of Byron's well-known lines ; ijliharo.seen much finer women, ripe and real, ; „ jThan nil tho nonsence of your stone ideal. ,:.' Tne young, lady who! is here depicted is in .1 the bloom' of adolescence, or what the French call golden:youth. Her'eyes are soft and full and languishing, convoying'.n .world of 1 meaning, recalling those romantic tales of . love'and adventure, which, for : centuries, werO | the themes of poets and dramatists, : The- 'expression of the original is admirably caught; the plump, fresh face, the shapely :mouth,'and undulating bosom only a glimpse ■of which is obtained, all assisting the imagiila* - tion in the realisation of the painter's ideal, ,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1020, 11 March 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)
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148OUR ILLUSTRATION. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1020, 11 March 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)
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