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Title: Unfinished Portraits
Stories of Musicians and Artists

Author: Jennette Lee

Release Date: November 29, 2009 [EBook #30562]

Language: English

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UNFINISHED PORTRAITS

BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR

KATE WETHERILL
A PILLAR OF SALT
THE SON OF A FIDDLER
UNCLE WILLIAM
SIMEON TETLOW'S SHADOW
HAPPY ISLAND
MR. ACHILLES
THE TASTE OF APPLES
THE WOMAN IN THE ALCOVE
AUNT JANE
THE IBSEN SECRET
THE SYMPHONY PLAY

[Illustration: _The great picture gathered to itself shape, and glowed._
Page 253]

UNFINISHED PORTRAITS

STORIES OF MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS

_BY_

_JENNETTE LEE_

_Schubert_ _Titian_
_Chopin_ _Giorgione_
_Bach_ _Leonardo_
_Albrecht Duerer_

_NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS_
1916

_Copyright, 1916, by Charles Scribner's Sons
Published September, 1916_

TO

GERALD STANLEY LEE

AND

"THE GREAT ROAD THAT LEADS
FROM THE SEEN TO THE UNSEEN"

CONTENTS

PAGE

_There Was in Florence a Lady_ 1

_Thumbs and Fugues_ 29

_A Window of Music_ 79

_Frederic Chopin--A Record_ 135

_The Man With the Glove_ 151

_The Lost Monogram_ 207

THERE WAS IN FLORENCE A LADY

I

The soft wind of an Italian spring stirred among the leaves outside. The
windows of the studio, left open to the morning air, were carefully
shaded. The scent of mulberry blossoms drifted in. The chair on the
model-stand, adjusted to catch the light, was screened from the glare;
and the light fal