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FELICIE BE FAUVEAU. 87
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SchefFer , Steuben , Gassier , Paul Delaroche , Triqueti , Gros , Giraud , etcBotli mother and daughter were so distinguished and agreeable ,
the . daughter was so profound a thinker and so witty a talker , that their society was much coveted and prized . Their friends would
assemble of an evening in their drawing-room , gather round a large table in the centre , and improvise drawings in chalk , pencil , pen and
ink , or would model in clay or wax , brooches , ornaments of various kinds , sword handles and scabbards , dagger hilts , etc . Mademoiselle
de Fauveau had the intention of reviving those famous days when the sculp clock ture lent maker its aid and to the the gold armourer and the . To silversmith her , to be the chiefl jeweller at- , may y
tributed the impuls , e given to this taste in Paris , which taste infected England also , not only in the revival of mediaeval fashions for
material ornaments , but wrought on our graver and more enthusiastic temperament the revival also of mediaeval feelings and aspirations , which found at last expression in Puseyism in religion , and
prelamp Itap During _haalism of singular this in art period . beaut , y she . executed It represents for Count a bivouac Pourtales of archangels a bronze
armed Round St . Michael as the kni lamp , is ghts standing in . golden They sentinel are letters resting . is It the is round in device the a old watch " Vaillant Ang fire lo- , saxon _^ while Veillant st one yle . " . ,
Beneath is a stork ' s foot holding a pebble , symbol of vigilance , and surrounded by beautiful aquatic plants . This work is poetically conceivedand executed with great spirit and finish . She also
commenced a , work which she calls "A Monument to Dante , " and which , like Hosetti's picture from the Vita Nuova , is worthy of the poet
and is a poem in itself . She had also sketched an equestrian statue of Charles VIII .
It is said , that on returning from the expedition to Naples , the monarch paused on the ascent of the Alps , and turned round to take
a last farewell of the beautiful " woman country , wooed , not wed , " which he so unwillingly abandoned . Mademoiselle de Fauveau
was most successful in rendering this expression of sadness and yearning . The pose of the horse was natural yet commanding , and
the work would have been doubtless a masterpiece , but , unfortunately for art and for France , the model had to be destroyed on the
breaking She had up now of her attained studio an . eminence which must have satisfied the
most ambitious , and gained a celebrity which must have encouraged missions the most for aspiring most of mind the . private She was galleries incessantl in France y occup and ied a with place com was
-, promised adorn public to her monument among s , those and whose great works artists enrich who public are emp collections loyed to .
She was to have modelled two doors for the gallery in the Louvre , after the manner of Ghiberti's gates of Paradise ; a baptistery and
pulpit in one of the metropolitan churches had been already spoken
Felicie Be Fauveau. 87
_FELICIE BE FAUVEAU . 87
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1858, page 87, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101858/page/15/
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