Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - Part two - II
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has been proofread at least once.
(diff)
(history)
Denna sida har korrekturlästs minst en gång.
(skillnad)
(historik)
he never wrote about anything else but going here and there in
the Campagna with you.”
“Oh,” said Jenny. It was very painful to hear Mrs. Gram
speak of things out there. “I think Mr. Gram worked very
hard, and one must have a day off now and again.”
“Possibly — but we housewives must get along without it.
Wait till you get married, Miss Winge. Everybody wants
holidays, it seems to me. I have a niece who has just become a
school teacher — she was to study medicine, but she was not
strong enough, so had to give it up and begin at the seminary
instead. She is always having a day off, it seems to me, and
I tell her there is no danger of her being overworked.”
Mrs. Gram left the room, and Jenny rose to have a look at
the pictures.
Above the sofa was a large view of the Campagna; one
could easily see that Gram had studied in Copenhagen. The
drawing was good and thorough, but the colouring thin and
dry. The background with two Italian women in national dress
and the miniature plants round the tumbled pillar was poor.
The model study of a young girl below was better. She had to
smile — no wonder Helge had found some difficulty in
accepting Rome as it was, and had been disappointed at first, after
having grown up with all this Italian romance on the walls at
home.
There were several well-drawn small landscapes from Italy,
with ruins and national costumes, and some copies —
Correggio’s “Danaë” and Guido Reni’s “Aurora” — which were
not good, and other copies of baroque pictures which she did
not know, but a study of a priest was good.
There was also a large light green summer landscape — an
experiment in impressionism — but thin and plain as far as
colouring went. The one over the piano was better, the sun
above the ridge and the air quite good. A portrait of Mrs.
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
