Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1881-11-12
Haunts Of Fortuny and RegnauIt In
Granada.

A beautifully illustrated paper in
the first number OF the Century
Magazine (the new Scrabner series
takes the reader "In the Footsteps
of Fortuny and Regnault." The
following paragraph about Grsna-
da describes some picturesqne
scenes of a land In which nothing
is unpicturesque:
The beauties Of Granada have
been sung 80 Oten and 40 well,
that We faucied we knew the place
before we drove up the long hill.
arched by nubie tiera, which leads
from the city to the AIhambra. 1t
WAS not until we had wandered Ia
It's shadOwy groves, and listened to
tie continuous music of its many
nrUok.; had seen the magnificent
landscape Of the Vega, with the
winding DarrO aud the Genil. from
The top of the Tower Of Vela; had
threaded our way through the
bu,tliI G q ,catin and.explored the
cave-iwei.ings VI the Gipsy @ iar-
Ter; had dreamed on the oleaudsr-
cauopied terraces Of the G.neraliie,
-urrounded by bubbling fountains
auh ancient Expresses If Linda
raxa's tim aud had passed, as In
u dream, through the Court of tie
LIONS aud the Salon of the EN-
uuiil we had tx.
pioied less Gel, brated towers aud
courts, with Washington Iivius'r
Tales Of the Aihambran as
guide book. that we real I'D that
the ch4Im of the place cannot
be conveyed by any amount
OF fine wrlilng. 1t must be felt 10
be- appreciated, and the logger felt
tue stronger the fascination. For
tuuy's studio WAS occupied by our
young American artist, Mr.. Ell
ward Weeks The inequalities of
the place were offered us most cor
d ally, and here, while the gentle
men painted from Fortuuy's mod-
Candida, in dazz ing
white, rose, and orange, ana old
Msriano, the gypsy, who posed for
the "rorrerO AudaIUz," belonging
10 NJ. de GOyens,-we sat aud
or listened to the tinkle of
a guitar, and caught q glimpse of
graceful girl dancing the faudaugo
10 a peighboring garden, to the
timing OF castauets. We went
on q pilgrimage to the differ
ent localities which figure In
pictures; to the old Ho-
tel de Vile. with its ornate facade,
to wall overhung with OleandeIs,
which he had ske,ched; to the
little Patio de la Rein
In the AIhambra, which figures IN
his "FeuciDg Lesson,n aud to the
where we had q won. I
ierful effect in q vista across the |
,hadowy nave to the Capilla Real,
W here u mellow amber light fl
Iered through the wonderful graft
ing Of scrolled and gilded metal
wUrk which forms the background
Of the spanish Marriage" We
fingered in the Court OF Myrtles,
n front of the Hall OF the Emba
'ahors, which Fortuny painted,
and searched for the background of
his Tribunal dc .PAihambr an
Here, too, were Regnaulrs favor-
lie scenes-the CupoIas which |
1rew one upward; the salon of the
Two Sister,; the Bath; The Patio
Df the Lions, and the Mirador of
While in the streets
below there was many another
booth OF sum mer fruits to recall
F"rtuny's "Granada Fruit.Seller,"
and we were reminded of his un
1nlshed picture, IA Burial During
The Carnival" where the careless.
less of young Life in the presence
IF Death is so startlingly depicted,
by a child's funeral which one day |
crossed our path The mourners
Offered far behind, aud the dead
baby was carelsssly carried in an
coffin by some little
boys, who laid it down by the
roadside and ran to zee what the |
81 range artist was sketching. A
picture Q milar to Fortuny's. where |
he carnival maskers pass the fu
neral cortege, was suggested to
Reguault in Madrid though never
painted. you know" he writes,
'that when the last sacrament is
carried to a sick person. the priest
Is accompanied to the house Of the
lying hy men who carry torches
aud ring lutte bells. II WAS mnrdi
gras: vt night, as the crowd gun.
led The Prado, such a procession
passed.. According to the Sp,uish
,us,Om, men and women kEelt. |
N othipg could be more strange
than ~ see maskers, with the heads
II camels, Of apes, of devils, and
merry-Andrews, kneeling thus be.
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