eum. The figure is thatof a beautiful young woman—Fortune, Destiny, or Fate—whoglides along on her ruthless wheel over the body of a childwith the legs of a faun, while another child laying near thehapless victim, amid flowers and grapes, reads tranquilly in abook, and heeds not the crushing wheel.… … GRIEF.—By M. Augustin Jean Moreau-Vauthier. MODERN FRENCH SCULPTURE. 255 hand a sword, and with the other hand she holds the longband of stuff which, passing across the body and mounting upthe back, terminates in the original and charming head-dress.The attitude of the figure is very picturesque,…
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