Wednesday, 5 May 1880

At the Salon with Mademoiselle de Villevieille. We abandon the family and Mme de Bailleul and Pelikan and Anitchkoff and go to find Caillas and Kiriewsky, making our way through the Exhibition.
Morot’s The Good Samaritan is a stunning piece of painting. Bonnat’s Job, which is broad, well-drawn, and well-painted, looks like mere prettiness after the Morot. We run into Gavini and Kiki and the family, and it all ends with a visit to Caillas’s atelier. I am pretty. As for my painting, people look at it a fair amount, for a picture placed in the gallery.
This evening at the Opera with the Gavinis, in the box of the Prince de Honiau... The Marquis de Las Cases, the Marquis de Chateaurenard, the Count de Chaudordy, the Duke de Rivoli... This heap of diplomats and faded dandies bores me this evening. The Huguenots is long.

Notes

Meyerbeer’s opera. ↩