Wednesday, 6 February 1884

[Crossed out: The painting again. Then sculpture by gaslight] Gaillard to dinner.
I went to Julian's to show him the Randouin portrait; this Marseillais looks very pleased and tells me it is getting better and better.
That is not my opinion of the portrait — I detest it; but if others think as Julian does... Well, I shall redo it all the same; I shall try to make it please me — one more session.
That Jew Julian irritates me. He persists in addressing me thus: your painting health goes from better to better; he wants me to have been very strong, then to have fallen off, then to be strong again — it is false, false, false! My studies are there — verify it!
In any case...
Thursday, 7 February 1884 The painting again, then sculpture by gaslight.
I have dinner brought up to the studio. The tranquillity is ravishing.

Notes

Marie's use of this antisemitic epithet, common in 1880s Parisian discourse, is recorded as written. Rodolphe Julian (1839–1907) was not in fact Jewish.