Fifty years of modern painting, Corot to Sargent (1908)
Phythian, John Ernest, 1858- · London, G. Richards · leaf 161
ere was to be seen Nana, that marvel of audaciousgrace. Laced in a blue silk corset, and otherwise cladmerely in a muslin smock with her feet in pearl-grey stock-ings, the blonde woman stands at the mirror painting herlips, and carelessly replying to the words of a man who iswatching upon the sofa… … THE IMPRESSIONISTS AND THEIR ALLIES 117 point of view. Yet does any one ever cry for the rejectionat the Royal Academy of portraits of women who are, per-haps, of impeccable conventional morals, yet are mostexpensively dressed and bedecked with jewels, notwithstand-ing the Christian injunction…
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