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"The Royal Academy. The One Hundred and First Exhibition. Second Notice." The Art-Journal, 1 July 1869: 201.
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... ‘The Toilette of a Roman Lady’ (787), by Simeon Solomon. The last
work should have obtained a better place than in a corner above the
line. ... Again, wholly distinct in style from any of the three classic
works just mentioned [Watts’s Orpheus & Eurydice, Leighton’s Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon, and A. Moore’s A Venus]
comes ‘The Toilette of a Roman Lady’ (787), by Mr. Simeon Solomon.
This remarkable composition, unlike the figures of Mr. Moore and Mr.
Leighton, evinces joy and rapture in colour; the romance of modern and
middle-age Art has infused warm tone, and swelling exuberant form, into
the severity of the classic. Mr. Solomon has evidently received as a
suggestion to his picture certain well-known mural paintings of Pompeii;
we recognise analogous types even to the full, thick, Roman throat.
The style is somewhat decorative, and pertains to periods of decadence;
nevertheless, this is one of the artist’s very best efforts; it has more
power and firmness than drawings recently exhibited in the Dudley
Gallery. Close by hangs a refined subtle work, distinguished by colour,
‘Helena and Hermia’ (785), by Miss R. Solomon; the manner of brother
and sister naturally is not wholly unlike.
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