[106] Le Brun was appointed ‘premier peintre’ in 1662, with twelve thousand francs a year.
... ‘Courant de belle en belle,
Sous des lambris dorés et Vernis par Martin.’
‘Les cabinets où Martin
A surpassé l’art de la Chine.’—Voltaire.
[109] Paul Mantz, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. XX.
[110] Translation by Henry Smith Wright, B.A.
[111] ‘Pantins Méchanique,’ a performing figure worked by a string, much in vogue at this period. See Engraved Fans of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, part i. page 226.