[4] In 1759 a M. de Silhouette was minister of finance, and he was so economical that the French used his name as a nickname for cheap things, among others for the profile portraits cut out of black paper, which were then popular. In time, the word came to be used for any dark mass seen against a light one.
[5] Pronounced Yo-hann-es Fair-mair.
[6] We shall find it was discovered also by the Spanish artist, Velasquez, in the same century.
[7] Pronounced pa-ee-sahje an-teem.
[8] Still life, or as the French call it “dead nature” includes, firstly, picked flowers, fruit and vegetables, and dead animals, and secondly, vases, pots, and other objects of man’s handicraft.
[9] Showing a mastery over others.
[10] Turn back to his picture and see how all this that we are now discussing is there illustrated.
[12] Later on I shall have something to say about these so called realists. I shall say to them, as Hamlet said to Horatio, “There are more things in Heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy.”
