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Students at the French academies didn't get a whole lot of instruction from the teachers. Most of the masters came into the drawing and painting classes once a week at most, and sometimes their feedback was brief and enigmatic.
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Illustration from An Art Student's Reminiscences of Paris in the Eighties  |
After looking at his drawings from the nude and asking him a number of questions, Bouguereau kindly said: "Mon ami, ça c'est comme bois; cherchez le caractère et les valeurs" ("My friend, it is like wood; look for the character and values.")
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| William Bouguereau, Biblis, to be auctioned in NYC at Sotheby's Nov. 6 |
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| Sir John Lavery, Miss Auras, The Red Book |
Lavery admitted that he had a tough time learning French, so he probably missed out on a lot of the art talk in Paris. But looking back on his training, he said, "The rest of my training came and continued to come from what I saw rather than from what I heard."
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