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91 FELICIE DE FAUVEAU ,
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Mademoiselle de Fauveau wrote to one of her friends , " We artists are like the Hebrews of old , manna is sent to us , but on condition
we save none for tne morrow . " exceeding Brighter 1 great days reward however ,, in dawned the happ . Labor iness it is shall confers not , onl but y fairl , in its every own and if steadfastland judiciouslwe y
Mademoiselle case we sow de Fauveau y has achieved y a modest reap independence , . tempted by When popular , however to murmur favorites , we were in contrast some we not inferior this convinced with walk the that of large art after fortunes , we all should whatever amassed be
is added to competence , , may increase luxuries , but is powerless , to bestow It is a either strange happ contrast iness or to distinction leave the drawing . -room three , half oratory white and
half boudoirand descend to the studio : two or large washed rooms , on the ground floor compose it . Here are casts and bassi relievi from the antiquebut the first
, thing and strenuous which strikes industry one are of the the artist crowded . The proofs next of is the , that indefati sculp gable ture
here is not an essentially Pagan art . Here are no goddesses , val nymp period hs , or : eup saints ids ; angels it is Christian cherubs art throng , —Christian the walls art . of In the the mediae centre
-, , the which eye hangs is at once the iigure attracted of by Christ that . large It is crucifix beautifull of y carved modelled wood , , and on
full Fauveau Heparata of devotional , has beautifull been peculiarl feeling y designed and happy masculine in in terra her cotta vi adaptation gor . . Mademoiselle Near of it terr is a a cotta St de .
monument to artistic purposes for an Eng . li A sh gain noblem y , that an large : two alto angelic relievo and is freed part sp of irits a ht
flying to heaven and dropping their earthly chains in their flig . and Further holding on is up St . her Dorothea hands , a for lovel a y basket female of figure flowers , looking and fruit upwards , the from
the a heaven flowers church flying to and in bring figure fruit the to of back of her the Paradise ground . angel There , . and which is There something an an inscri is angel an ption very architectural is bold how descending and this desi rap church gn id in of
addressing sprang , as the it were Israelites , from from the , martyr an open ' s blood gallery . , There with of the the is a head warrior Judith of
woman Holofernes of Bethulia on a spear there beside is an indefinable her . In the resemblance aspect —indefinable , for it does not consist in feature or form—with Mademoiselle de with
Fauveau . Possibly the expression has something congenial her own character . She possesses in an eminent degree which that con ives
centration of purpose which gives force , and that ardor g b de ibli cision cal , and to prim the will itive ; in and her , in fiery addition and _iinc to ompromisin this , there g is an something imosities ;
resentments which have none of the meanness of personal rancour , but There are against arehowever a party works and for of a a cause lihtev . character . There is the g
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1858, page 91, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101858/page/19/
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