human
The pose is one of _hauteur_ as becomes the author of
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Les Hortenses Bleus. He wears a dress-suit, and a dark overcoat with a grey lining is thrown over his arm while the other arm thrusts forth a slender cane-like sword. As it is so frequently the case with Whistler's arrangement, it is more a play with colour than a character delineation. A character delineation plus tone is surely more admirable than mere tonality or mere character delineation. In his
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Leyland,
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Mother,
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Duret, and
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Carlyle he accomplished both. In this one he only excelled in one. I also fail to see why he called it
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Black and Gold,