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Excerpt from Puvis De Chavannes: With a Biographical Critical Study It was painted in 1887. He was sixty-three; he was work ing on the Sorbonne cartoon; he was at the very height of his career, in full possession of his genius; he could with confident serenity look back, and from the threshold of his old age consider the imposing series of his pictures, which had for so long been misunderstood, though henceforth they were to be universally acclaimed. I may be permitted perhaps to go back in memory and to state that it was not until that time, to be exact, at the beginning of 1888, that I made his acquaintance. Before that, beginning with May 8, 1881, when he wrote me a few lines in his admirable handwriting (as beautiful as that of Racine and J ose-maria de Heredia) thanking me for an article I wrote in Le Parlement on Le Pauvre Pecheur, I had received many previous tokens of his gratitude after various battles waged in defence of his art; but we had never met. After a correspondence of several years he wrote to me: after such energetically ex pressed appreciation as yours I would much have liked to know you personally and I have more than once felt an impulse to contrive it; but, not to speak of my dread of trespassing on your kindness, I am also conscious of a rare delicacy in such relationships in which an artistic sympathy is enough to set up a current, which on my side at any rate, I feel to be very near affection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.