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and glow of colour ^of which he lost the search in later life. Indeed the colour is as remarkable as the mastery and force of the handling. The background represents a silk hanging of the intensest and most transparent green. It is almost an emerald green but rather warmer and more golden, against this the dress is relieved in a peculiarly subtle and beautiful black in which a greenish note is apparent*. Finally the flesh has an intense luminous golden quality of colour ---

• The photograph makes all this too dark and

indefinite.