. Alphonse Daudet, in the original painting,is seated with his child, a little girl, ne;ir him.The hands, which are always so admirably under- 137 Eugene Carricre stood in Carrieres works, tell a story of inex-pressible sadness. One long thin hand hangsdown listlessly, tired and nerveless, the… … parting caress. The tragic beauty of the authorshead is the expression of a Christ, the pale emaciatedface appearing even whiter next the brown beard ;the hair faintly tinged with grey, the beautifulbended head too weighty for the neck, theshoulders, the arms, all tell their sad tale in lan-guage…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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