Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-06-28
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A WOMAN WHO IS PERFECT.
Hall, tho Portrait Painter, Has Chosen
Mrs. A. Morosini.

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Hall, tho Portrait Painter, Has Chosen
| Mrs. A. Morosini.
"A perfectly proportioned woman!"
exclaimed the artist, Richard Hall.
It was the tribute of one Of the
greatest portrait painters Of the day
one who has painted many Of the not
able beauties Of New York's fashion
able "sOO," to Mrs. Atillio Morosini, a
most American Of Americans. Before
her marriage, some three years ago
she was famous as the beautiful Mary
Washington Bond, Of New Jersey, the
great-great- at-grandniece Of George
Washington and the great-grandniece
of Dolly Madison.
"She Is beautiful" cried the artist
with the authority Of one who has all
his life made study Of lines and tints
More than that-she Is the most beau
tiful woman I have seen in America
with the exception, perhaps, of Mrs
John Jacob Astor, who is also ideal.
"She is beautiful because everything
is in proportion-I mean by that each
part of Mrs. Morosinrs body suggests
the proportion Of the other part. That
was what our masters. the Greeks ex-
acted as perfection.
"Her back, for instance, one Of the
rarest features woman may have, Is
well-nigh perfect.
ITO find a perfect back is as rare as
to find a perfect foot. The usual back
Is apt to be too fat or too round or toe
curved or too angular. A white skin
covers a multitude of sins, and some
times these faults are not observable
to the casual person. But this Is per-
feet back with the statuesque curve
that the Greeks loved 80, and 1t Is not
found once among thousand women
Mrs. Morosini has it."
But Mr.. Hall was quite as enthusi-
astic about the beauty Of Mrs. Morosi-
mis- entire figure as about any one fea-
ture.
"Ah," he said, there Is a full length
view Of a perfectly. proportioned wo-
man-but the photographer has some
what disturbed perfection by the Pc
culiar pose of the gown.
"He has done it obviously to make
his subject seem taller, because prob
ably his ideas Of the perfect woman
have become perverted by the prevail
ing type-the tall, lank, angular, hip
less, so-called Gibson girl.
do I admire ter? A woman should
have hips and curves just as Mrs. MO-
rosini has here in this full length por-
trait. You can see for yourself that
there Is not an abrupt or sudden line
in her whole figure.
Symmetry Is the secret Of her beau
ty. Look at the way the neck here
slopes into the shoulders. Then the arm
itself seems made to fit the shoulder
and the wrist and hand to fit the arm
That is what we call symmetry.
1.-THE length Of Mrs. Morosinis fore
arm, for instance, foretells exactly
what should be the length OF her upper
arm, and her upper arm lives up to
this proportion exactly. These are
characteristics that delight the eye OF
an artist-they are seldom looked for
because they are SO rarely found
Mrs. Rutherford. Stuyvesant, whose
portrait I painted some time ago
might vie with Mrs. Morosini In the
matter of arms, but she Is perhaps the
only one I can think Of"
| Mr.. Richard Hall has lived every
wherein Paris, where he has a studio
at No. 43 Avenue Victor Hugo; III
Newport, where he painted our Amer
lean fashionable beauties; In Russia
in Sweden, in Spain.
81 have travelled in every part OF Eu-
rope" he said, "but nowhere have
seen more beautiful women than ir
America.
Frequently while abroad have
found myself saying: What beauti'
full woman!' And Immediately have
been informed that she Is an Ameri-
can, Mrs. De la Mar was one whom
I admired extremely. And from Cali
fornia I have seen innumerable beau
| ties.
1.-THE American woman's great fault
is that she is inclined to be too heavy
She should guard against that with all
her might. 1t shows itself In thick
ness that Is fatal to beauty.
Mrs. Morosini's figure is full with
out suggesting in any way this thick
ness. I should say that she Is the
ideal height. She should measure
eight times the length Of her head and
that ideal measurement Mrs. Morosini
suggests as the eye travels from the
tin of her skirt to the crown of her
head.
"The French women have found ex-
tremely beautiful. have painted
among the haute noblesse the Duchess
de Rochefoucauld, the Duchess de Bris-
sac, the Duchess Dues, the Countess
de Maille. l have lived there In every
quarter, studying the nation. They
have beauty Of figure as we'll as beau
ty of face, but they are not as well
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