IN LOVE WITH A PICTURE.
An elderly Frenchman of distinguished appearance had for some time past been a daily visitor to the AngloFrench Exhibition of 100 portraits of beautiful women of the eighteenth century passing hours in admiration of a portrait by Boucher of Jeanne Marquise do Pompadour, lent to the exhibition by the Edinburgh National Gallery. > He appears to havo fallen in love with the picture, for ho came with a large bouquet of cornflowers, and to the astonishment of other visitors fell on his knees' before the painting, exclaiming, as he held the bouquet aloft, “Oh, darling Joanne, at last I have found you! Come to me, come!” With great trouble tho attendants induced him to accompany them to-the ’office where he was detained .till his rcSlatiVcs arrived in a motor-car and took him away-
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2586, 21 August 1909, Page 3 (Supplement)
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137IN LOVE WITH A PICTURE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2586, 21 August 1909, Page 3 (Supplement)
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