382 AXEXANDER AGASSIZ 



TO MRS. LOUIS AGASSIZ 



Paris, March 9, 1901. 



Quite a long letter from you to-day and am sorry to 

 see that the summing-up of the winter has been such a 

 long housing for you from cold, etc. My wrist is all 

 right again, but I use it a little carefully, as you will 

 see from my new chirography. 



I bought a second Rosa Bonheur to-day, a splendid 

 Royal Tiger — it is really superb. I don't know where 

 I shall put it in Cambridge any more than the Lion. 

 The two will not do in the same room. Each is fine of 

 its kind, and what is good especially is the character- 

 istic landscape. Usually this is anything — in both cases 

 the beasts are in their lair and as they live. Perhaps you 

 know she had lions on her place and used to live at the 

 Jardin des Plantes when she was painting the tiger. 

 I never saw such movement as the beast has — he is 

 superb. Max quite approves of my purchases in way of 

 pictures, and as the boys are to have them they had 

 better be to their taste also. 



There are some of the modified impressionist laud- 

 scape painters here whose things I like very much also, 

 so I indulged in a couple. There was one by Monet I 

 would have bought, but Max could not stand it, though 

 he acknowledged it was the best of its kind he had seen. 

 I dare say Ida would have appreciated it, but Quin feels 

 about them much as I do — he would not give them house 

 room. The only way to have them is about a mile off — 

 then they are superb. They suggest anything and every- 

 thing you can fancy. It is astonishing what a lot of pic- 

 tures are sold here to go to America. We seem to be clean- 

 ing up the picture market as fast as they are produced. 



