 | Lady Layard’s Journal Go to a Date Search the Journal |
|
Previous Entry
|
Following Entry
| |
31 January 1883 — Paris | |
Wednesday. 31st January [1883]. My cold was so bad I remained in bed till 12. Henry went again to the Louvre. When I got up I had some soup—tried on my dresses wh Mme DuCroquet condescended to allow me to do at home– Read, wrote & did not go out. Had a visit from Mr Atlee & later from Mr O’Connor. At 7.30 went to dine with M. & Mme LaCroix at 25 Avenue Messini– They built the house themselves & a great many of the decorations of ceilings are done by Mme LaCroix herself. We met M. & Mme Lambert LaCroix, Mr & Mrs Moore, a Miss Hamilton, & Mme Fortuny & Señor Raimundo Madrazo. I had never met Mme Fortuny since we were at Granada with her & her husband 11 years ago. She has greatly lost her beauty but has a pretty figure & hair. Mrs Moore is a very Andalusian Spaniard married to a deaf & dumb American Artist. She has jet black hair & eyes—& her head was dressed in an outré Spanish fashion with [illegible word] coeurs curls & high comb– She seemed very good natured but rather “cursi.” Miss Hamilton said she was from S. Francisco & had a sister just married to Sir Sydney Waterloo an Ex Lord Mayor– She was smartly dressed & very plain & not very distinguished looking. After dinner Mme LaCroix took us up to her studio & one was astonished to see what a powerful painter she is. She has a lovely nude Juno with a white peacock at background—quite wonderfully painted & is also doing an immense decorative panel– After taking tea down stairs we left early. | |
|
Previous Entry
|
Following Entry
| |