IN LOVE WITH A PICTURE.
As elderly Frenchman of distinguished appearance had for some time past been a daily visitor to the Anglo-French Exhibition of 100 portraits of beautiful women of the eighteenth century, passing hours in admiration of a portrait by Boucher of Jeanne Marquise de Pompadour, lent to the exhibition by the Edinburgh National Gallery. ! He appears to have follen in love with the picture, for he cam* with a large bouquet of cornflowers,. an! to the astonishment of other visitors fell on his knees before, the painting, exclaiming, as he held the bouquet aloft, " Oh,' darling Jeanne, al> last I have found yoi! Come 'to me, come!" _ ' With .great trouble the attendants in« duced him - to accouipan,' them to the office, where :he was detained till - his 1 relatives arrived iq % motflr-car ana iqok jiug aw»» J !. -4 •
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14133, 7 August 1909, Page 2 (Supplement)
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