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238 EOSA BONHEUK.
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gentl resumed y to her all the sketching horse and ramble cattle s in fairs the held country in the , and neig resorted hborhood dili of
-Paris . On the latter occasions she invariably wore male attire ; a have precaution and still rendered more she it found as impossible a protection it necessary for her against to to adop ming the t , le annoyances both in such as a gatherings convenience that would in ,
feminine costume . In her masculine habits , Rosa had so completely the look of a good-hearted , ingenuous boy , that the graziers and
horse-dealers whose animals she drew , would frequently insist on their stronger " standing beasts , * to treat had the , " " so clever in much a chop little deli ine fellow hted of wine them , " , whose or and a , petit it skilful , sometimes verre pourtrayal of something required of g ;
all her address and ingenuity , to escape from their well-meant peryouth secutions of . the Her sterner good sex looks , would , too sometimes , in the make assumed which sad character havoc head certain in of the a
laug suscep rations hable tible of the incidents hearts romantic of mi village ght be ions dairy narrated at -maids either . ; foot In under her of the subsequent Pyrenees exp , the loreg
thoug passion Phcebes h with of comical the which south embarrassment she , has has more thus than unwitting to once the artist proved ly inspired desirous a source the black above of serious -eyed all
, things to maintain impenetrably , the secret of . her disguise . of lates The her young with models casts artist . She and ' s studies models procured were of the the not different best confined anatomical parts to the " of exterior treatises the ¦ human forms and
frame p , and studied them with her usual thoroughness ; she then procured of carefull the , forms y dissecting legs and , shoulders dependencies them , , and and heads thus of the obtaining of muscles animals an whose from intimate play th , e knowled she butchers had ge to ,
delineate . Now that Rosa has arrived at the fame which her swelling
childheart should prop lead hecied to the to itself fulfilment , before of she her had iration ascertaine sthe d the richest path that and asp
noblest of her countrymen are proud to place at , her disposal the finest products of their farms and studs ; while mulesdonkeys ,
, sheep one end , goats of Europe , pigs , dcgs to the , and other rare so poultry that it , are is impossible offered to for her her from to
quarter genius are a tithe ambitious of the of " models supplying " , with her . which But the it is admirers certain that of her the
vented poverty compelled her and her from obscurity to supp lay lying which all the herself , during environ with her s the under first models _contribtition years she of desired effort and , , pre and to
frequent pencil , were abattoirs really and of unspeakable cattle market service s in sear to ch her of , as subj forcing ects for her her to
beheld make a variety acquaintance in of action other with and condition a and multitude iving , such of her types as at once she , and could a breadth that , never too of , ' under have
conany way , g ception , variety of detail , and truthfulness to nature , that a more
limited range of experience could not have supplied .
238 Eosa Bonheuk.
238 EOSA BONHEUK .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1858, page 238, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061858/page/22/
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