She is not acting a part or posing as a princess, but is simply
a cowering little girl, frightened at the wolf and eager to protect
her basket. In her freshness and simplicity, a cottage maiden with
anxious blue eyes, most innocent and childish of children, she need
not shun proximity to Richard II., Edward VI., William of Orange, Don
Balthazar Carlos, and the Duke of Gloucester.
And thus we conclude our procession of royal children with a child
of the people. Beginning with Richard II., a portrait of a king rather
than a child, we end with a picture in which childhood merely, without
the gift of distinction or the glamour of royalty, suffices to charm
a great painter's eye and inspire his thought. With the sweetness and
grace of modern childhood filling our eyes, may we not well close this
children's book?
INDEX
'Adoration of the Lamb,' 56-59
Adoration of the Magi, treatment of, 33
'Age of Innocence,' 171
_Alice in Wonderland_, 2
'All-pervading,' the, 196
Animals, painting of, 142
Antonello of Messina, 67-69
Art, definition of, 4
Atmosphere, 10
treatment of by Dutch School, 139, 140
by Holbein, 139
by Velasquez, 156
Beauneveu, Andre, of Valenciennes, 43
Bellini, Giovanni, 98, 102
Black Death, influence of, 41
Botticelli, 70-77, 145
influence of, on Burne-Jones, 191
Brett's 'Val d'Aosta,' 192 _et seq.
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