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...ir is Flemish. The fitting light, the shades, the atmosphere. There is a watercolour on an easel of a thickset forest with towering and murky trees...

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...tect them from dampness and Isabel took each painting out of its covering and displayed it on an easel for Helen and Rosita to view. There were six...

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...Loire River. Leonardo writes of his boyhood, his mother, his friends, his easel and mural paintings, his dissections, his colossal bronze horse. H... ... that pelvic drawing. Queer how memory is: I can see that messy workshop, easels, clay figures on stands, rags, canvases, frames, chisels, pigments,... ...a young man...time is of no importance! Salai rushed in as I worked at my easel. “Look, look at this...” He had found a sketch among my sketches, a... ...t on the door; the door shook. I heard the lock give. Picking up a broken easel leg I waited, in case the lock gave way. The man outside coughed. He... ...one dressed like that? And this fountain...” He sits on a bench beside my easel. “We must ride to Paris...we must visit Cluny...the churches...there... ...he years of dissection and anatomical studies. Best years? There were the easel paintings. I suppose there have never been any best years. There wer... ...cat, from among the dozens that haunt the château. The cat beds under his easel, among cleaning rags. He always stinks of turpentine and oil. LEON... ...times, when I am very tired and have turned in early, Francesco rolls his easel into the room, and sits on the side of the bed and we talk brush stro... ...oux Manor House Early morning. Good light. Francesco and I worked at our easels until lunch. Cold. At lunch, F said: “I lost again at cards las...

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...d sit. A large photo of the author and a blow-up of the book cover sat on easels offset from the table. Paravi Saxena, his Community Re- lations Coor...

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...would obtain paint, brushes, canvasses, a sketch pad, charcoal pencils, an easel, and other material items so vital for painters obsessed in depicting...

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...se, traced diaphanous gold lines in which the dust was shimmering. A dozen easels raised their sharp points like masts in a port. Several young girls ... ... cast by the green serge curtains, arranged according to the needs of each easel, produced a multitude of contrasts, and the piquant effects of light ... ...ce. The secret of the young ultras was soon revealed. Amelie rose, took an easel which stood near hers, carried it to a distance from the noble group,... ... her from ac- complishing the change by rolling hastily to the side of the easel the stool, the box of colors, and even the picture by Prudhon, which ... ...rom party spite.” “I have a great mind to go and get Mademoiselle Piombo’s easel and place it next to mine,” said Matilde Roguin. She rose, but second... ...lips of the young Italian, who seemed thoughtful, and walked slowly to her easel, glancing carelessly at the drawings and paintings on her way, and bi... ...a single word. Her absorption seemed so great that she sat down before her easel, opened her color-box, took up her brushes, drew on her brown sleeves... ...the chair and table as far as possible from the partition, returned to her easel, and seemed to be arranging it to suit the volume of light she had no... ... the indifference which Ginevra had apparently shown to the removal of her easel. She was in- wardly enchanted, because the change had enabled her to ...

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...n the roof and fell, focussed as it were, upon a canvas which rested on an easel in the middle of the room, and which bore, as yet, only three or four... ... walls from floor to ceiling; color- boxes, bottles of oil and turpentine, easels and stools upset or standing at right angles, left but a narrow path... ...ilii” at Easter. Porbus and Poussin stood motionless on either side of the easel, plunged in passionate contemplation. “See, young man,” said the old ... ..., mistaking the purpose of their examination. “See, here is the frame, the easel; these are my colors, my brushes.” And he caught up a brush which he ...

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...S, THE C OCK, AND THE L ION .....................41 THE M ICE AND THE W EASELS ..............................42 THE M ICE IN C OUNCIL ............. .....68 THE F OX AND THE L ION ......................................68 THE W EASEL AND THE M ICE ................................68 THE B OY B ATHIN... ... The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny. THE B AT AND THE W EASELS A BAT who fell upon the ground and was caught by a Wea sel pleade...

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...ublic, they filled the whole space. Historical, high-art, genre paintings, easel pictures, landscapes, flowers, animals, and water-col- ors,—these eig... ...himself sufficient faculty to attempt high-art, and he therefore clings to easel painting. At the beginning of the month of December of that year, a s... ...e would still make him- self a great painter. He placed his picture on the easel, and went to one of his former masters, a man of immense tal- ent,—to... ...ried to console him. The next morning at seven o’clock Fougeres was at his easel working over the rejected picture; he warmed the colors; he made the ... ...he face full of violent tones. The mother and daughter hov- ered about the easel, marvelling at all his preparations; they evidently thought him a dem...

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...rom?” “From mamma’s house.” “Oh! mamma!” cried the pupils. “Silence at the easels!” cried Chaudet. “Who is your mamma?” “She is Madame Bridau. My papa... ...unday. “Is that it?” asked Philippe, pointing to a picture by Rubens on an easel. “Yes,” replied Joseph; “it is worth twenty thousand francs. That’s w... ...al glaze of his own, in place of the original, and put the original on his easel. Pierre Grassou was completely taken in; and then amazed and delighte...

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...e not actually had her as a model, posed and draped and lighted, before my easel.” What had become for the moment of my perception and my tact I am at... ...g there helpless and dumb. He was seated near the single window, facing an easel which supported a large canvas. On my entering he looked up at me bla... ...vases turned face inward, and a rusty-looking colour-box, formed, with the easel at the window, the sum of its appurtenances. The place savoured horri... ...ace savoured horribly of poverty. Its only wealth was the pic- ture on the easel, presumably the famous Madonna. Averted as this was from the door, I ...

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... tell me the latest news from Arcady!” The artist was not just then at her easel, but was busied with the feminine task of mending a pair of gloves. T... ...bition, you shall see what has been shown to no one else.” She went to her easel, on which was placed a picture with its back turned towards the spect... ... of the Pam-fili-Doria palace, the Borghese, the Corsini, the Sciarra, her easel was set up be- fore many a famous picture by Guido, Domenichino, Raph... ...f the Eternal City, and was often pointed out to strangers, sitting at her easel among the wild- bearded young men, the white-haired old ones, and the... ...tead of going on with a copy of the picture before which he had placed his easel, would enrich his canvas with an origi- nal portrait of Hilda at her ... ...ee! “said Hilda, taking her friend’s hand, and leading her in front of the easel. “I wanted your opinion of it.” “If you have really succeeded,” obser... ...ght it away piecemeal, being forbidden (like the rest of us) to set up his easel before it. As for me, I knew the Prince Barberini would be deaf to al... ...near the portrait of Beatrice Cenci, which had not yet been taken from the easel. It is a peculiarity of this picture, that its profoundest expres- si... ...her such magical effect has ever been wrought by pencil. Now, opposite the easel hung a looking-glass, in which Beatrice’s face and Hilda’s were both ...

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...perficially at least—the children of their mother. There used to be, on an easel in her drawing-room, an enlarged photograph of her husband, done by s...

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...We sat in the studio, and he waved his hand to an unfinished picture on an easel. I gave a little start. He was painting a group of Italian peas- ants... ... in which was nothing but a bed, canvases with their faces to the wall, an easel, a table, and a chair. There was no carpet on the floor . There was n... ...like to have a proper look at it, so he brought it along and set it on the easel. Then he stood back in order to see it at his ease. He gave a gasp. I... ...No, blast you; I want you to hold your tongue.” He placed a picture on the easel, and let me look at it for a minute or two; then took it down and put... ...ip from Auckland to San Francisco, and he arrived with a box of paints, an easel, and a dozen canvases. He had a few pounds in his pocket, for he had ... ...I came in. In one corner of the room was the bed, and in the middle was an easel with the canvas upon it. Because I was sorry for him, I had bought a ... ...nd there found Strickland cleaning his palette. There was a picture on the easel. Strickland, clad only in a pareo, was standing with his back to the ... .... It is a mercy when it runs its course quickly . ” Strickland went to his easel and looked reflec- tively at the picture that stood on it. “ Y ou hav...

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... tell me the latest news from Arcady!” The artist was not just then at her easel, but was busied with the feminine task of mending a pair of gloves. T... ...bition, you shall see what has been shown to no one else.” She went to her easel, on which was placed a picture with its back turned towards the spect... ... of the Pam-fili-Doria palace, the Borghese, the Corsini, the Sciarra, her easel was set up be- fore many a famous picture by Guido, Domenichino, Raph... ...f the Eternal City, and was often pointed out to strangers, sitting at her easel among the wild- bearded young men, the white-haired old ones, and the... ...tead of going on with a copy of the picture before which he had placed his easel, would enrich his canvas with an origi- nal portrait of Hilda at her ... ...ee! “said Hilda, taking her friend’s hand, and leading her in front of the easel. “I wanted your opinion of it.” “If you have really succeeded,” obser... ...ght it away piecemeal, being forbidden (like the rest of us) to set up his easel before it. As for me, I knew the Prince Barberini would be deaf to al... ...near the portrait of Beatrice Cenci, which had not yet been taken from the easel. It is a peculiarity of this picture, that its profoundest expres- si... ...her such magical effect has ever been wrought by pencil. Now, opposite the easel hung a looking-glass, in which Beatrice’s face and Hilda’s were both ...

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...s Croft contended, failed to “lift him up”—she had not led him back to the easel. To put the brush into his hand again— what a vocation for a wife! Bu... ...ntral panel in a pale yellow or rose Dubarry drawing-room, or a monumental easel placed so that it took the light through curtains of old V enetian po... ...with him. I had sent all my traps in advance, and I had only to set up the easel and get to work. He had been dead only twenty-four hours, and he died... ...led in making the most of the kind of atmosphere which a lay-figure and an easel cre- ate; and if at times she found the illusion hard to maintain, an...

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...the stone fell. Hippolyte returned to the studio bearing the portrait. His easel was ready with a fresh canvas, and his palette set, his brushes clean...

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...ned afresh, with a staring, wondering homage, to the audacious daub on the easel. “Ask him, then. if he would not like to learn French.” “To learn Fre... ...er, bought a paint-box, a canvas, and a new dress, and went and set up her easel in the Louvre. There in one place and another, she has passed the las... ...to the Louvre, but I see nothing of the cop- ies. She has something on her easel; I suppose it is one of the pictures you ordered. Such a magnificent ... ...ersons, but at the farther end of it sat Made- moiselle Nioche, before her easel. She was not at work; her palette and brushes had been laid down besi... ...ed at them quickly, and then, coloring a little, rose and stood before her easel. “I came here on purpose to see you,” said Newman in his bad French, ... ...ately-felt roughness. Then, rapidly, she turned the canvas that was on her easel over upon its face. “You have not forgotten me?” she asked. 136 The ... ...“that I don’t know how to paint.” “But you have something charming on your easel, now,” said Valentin, “if you would only let me see it.” She spread o... ... a low salute to the two gentlemen who were standing before his daughter’s easel. Newman shook his hands with muscular friendliness, and Valentin retu...

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...y in the country. ‘Good,’ said Dick, as he sat licking his lips before the easel in the studio. ‘I want more,—heaps more. The lean years have passed, ... ...r come.’ ‘Where?’ said Maisie, wearily. She had been stand- ing before her easel too long, and was very tired. ‘Anywhere you please. We’ll take a trai... ...o know what you’ve paid them for. The dust’s just awful. It’s all over the easel.’ ‘I don’t use it much now.’ ‘All over the pictures and the floor, an...

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...rasped his friend’s hand, dragged him off to the studio, uncovered a small easel picture and a portrait. After a long and eager study of the two maste...