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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 1, 25 April 1884, Page 23

The great Meisonnier painted the portrait of the rich Mrs. Mackay (Bonanza's wife), who was dissatisfied, called the picture a caricature and actually burned it 1 All Paris is mad at the Vandalism. They say that one picture by Meisonnier is worth a million commonplace women. Figaro Bays:—'* Foreign millionaires have rights to be used among us so along as they employ their wealth in purifying the artistic genius of France, and not in destroying its productions by axe blows. One might avenge one's self on his bootmaker by paying his bill and throwing the goods in the fire, but to treat in this fashion a great artist, an illustrious old man with an irreproachable artistic conscience, is to attack the genius of the conntry and its iesDect for the men who make it illustrious."