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The Daily Advertiser
New York, New York County, New York
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Anecdote from Paris: An elderly devout Duchess, active against Protestants, commissions France's best painter M. David for a life-sized crucifix portrait using her Capuchin confessor Father Seraphin's heavenly head. David makes the body muscular and thin, but the Duchess refuses to pay 500 crowns, exclaiming it's not the monk's real body.
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"An old Duchess, whose time is chiefly spent in prayers, and whose spirit has been extremely active against the protestants, sent one day for M. David, the best painter in France, in order to have a crucifix painted by him as big as life. Her confessor, Father Seraphin, a Capuchin, was chosen by the Duchess's order as the properest person to represent the Christ. His head was certainly one of the most heavenly ever seen, but his body by no means suitable to represent the muscular form of a crucifix. The Monk was in charming good case; so that when David had taken the traits of his countenance, he made the rest of his body, as is generally done, muscular and thin. The lady was quite charmed with the head, but after examining the rest of the body, she refused to pay the painter the sum agreed upon (five hundred crowns) exclaiming, ah! Pere Seraphin, ce n'est pas la ton corps."
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duchess refuses to pay painter 500 crowns, exclaiming 'ah! pere seraphin, ce n'est pas la ton corps.'
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An old Duchess commissions M. David to paint a life-sized crucifix using Father Seraphin as the model for Christ. David uses the monk's head but makes the body muscular and thin. The Duchess is charmed by the head but rejects the body as not matching the monk's plump form and refuses payment.