Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
[England? : s.n.] · leaf 116
om five in the morningtill eleven at night. At twenty-five he did a Mercuryof which his master said, My friend, I should like to the king and see his Mercury and his Venusagain. The king asked at a state supper who theFrenchman was amongst the people looking on.Tell the king, said a friend of… … NYMPH AND YOUNG SATYR.(By Zojfoli or Rliigetti.) to have done it myself. This praise encouragedhim to become a candidate for the Academy, ofwhich he was elected an Associate. One day whenthe Mercury was on view in his studio a strangercame in and admired it so much that he said, Theancients never…
