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Singleton, Esther · New York, Dodd, Mead and Co. · leaf 263
poor,embarrassed artist who only sees his models while they areposing and has never lived with them. He follows them inthe privacy of the royal apartments, on great hunting-parties,and in ceremonies of pomp. He knows their bearing, theirgestures, their attitudes, and their physiognomy; he him-self… … < Q CC u.O U QZ ub£«^ :=» (d X a 5s WEBSTEU • FKEE • LIBEAKl rSat^mtln Street, E. R. T\ THE SURRENDER OF BREDA 193 themselves, and even more than they, he has les grandes etles petites entrees} The nobility of Spain having Velasquezfor a portrait-painter could not say, like the lion of thefable…
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