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Show -- FIFTEEN THOUSAa DOLLAR BEAUTY llir Irrm.mnuo mi HnrMll. This painting is by Feiix Clement of Marseilles. France, and was for many I y"rs a great study for the critic at the Saion in Paris. Of nil tho painting by Clement, this of the favorite of the harcii! i the tinest, ai,il has iu all exhibitions ex-hibitions t;il. en the Iirst rank. The subject is a familiar one to students of eastern life and customs. Beautiful women ha e a! ways been tho passion of the hot blooded lords and rulers of ll.e countries whore tho mm shines for ail times. Theso women are oflon uelected from the natives of the Caueassiau mountains to Asia Minor and also from Hie (ieorgians. WTiilo they are really captives cap-tives to their lord their lives are not hard ones as to physical comforts. They are surrounded by every luxury that wealth and power can secure, and beyond loving and sleeping Inive very liltle to do. In the painting the beauty is sleeping, having grown tired of stringiui; Mowers. She is watched by her dusky maid anil tho tzrim Mus-tapha, Mus-tapha, whose cigarette glows as brightly as his eyes lixed upon the maid To appreciate this great work it must be seen. Latiguno cannot illustrate its beauty. It value is $!5.000, and is on exhibition at the Council saloon, 115 Commercial street, where Mr. Harney Tibbea invites the public to view it. |