Thursday, 21 November 1878

Breslau painted a cheek so lifelike and true that I — woman, artist, rival — wanted to kiss that woman's cheek...
Paul, my now sole brother and a colossus, has just arrived accompanying Nadine, Alexandre's wife. She is small and blonde and twenty-eight years old; he is only nineteen but enormous — one would take them for husband and wife.
This innocent couple is very amusing.
Robert-Fleury came to the atelier this evening. Everything is still going very well. I have made "astonishing progress."