Once on the subject of their recollections there was no stopping them, though Claude went on painting with growing feverishness, while Pierre, still turned towards the wall, spoke over his shoulders, shaking every now and then with excitement.
Les souvenirs étaient lâchés. Claude et Sandoz ne tarirent plus, l’un fouetté et peignant avec une fièvre croissante, l’autre tourné toujours vers le mur, parlant du dos, les épaules secouées de passion.
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He thought there was something very sad about that execrable painting, and the wasted life of that peasant who was a victim of middle-class admiration.
Il trouvait une mélancolie profonde à l’exécrable peinture, à la vie manquée de ce paysan, victime des admirations bourgeoises.
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The painting which the priest executed quite delighted her.
Puis, la vue des peintures qu'exécutait monsieur le curé la ravissait.
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It would be better not to know anything at all about it, like that brute Chambouvard, or else to see very clearly into the business and then give up painting. . . .
Il vaudrait mieux ne pas y voir du tout, comme cet animal de Chambouvard, ou bien y voir très clair et ne plus peindre…
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At this Claude burst forth, full of remorse: 'After all! you are right; I'm a fool with this painting of mine.
Alors, Claude s’emporta, plein de remords. «Tiens! c’est vrai, je suis stupide, avec ma peinture! …
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Fagerolles, who was very cunning, had decided to send nothing, for fear of displeasing his masters; and he chaffed the Salon, calling it 'a foul bazaar, where all the bad painting made even the good turn musty.'
Fagerolles, très malin, n’exposait pas, de peur de mécontenter ses maîtres; et il tapait sur le Salon, un bazar infect où la bonne peinture tournait à l’aigre avec la mauvaise.
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And in front of that painting there was no crush whatever; the visitors walked by with an air of indifference.
Et, devant celui-là, personne ne se bousculait, les visiteurs défilaient avec indifférence.
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She would excuse him, surely; he would have killed father and mother, as he kept on repeating, when that confounded painting got hold of him.
Elle devait l’excuser, il aurait tué père et mère, comme il le répétait, lorsque cette sacrée peinture le tenait aux entrailles.
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But partially discernible in the waning light, this painting represented a woman seated on some projecting stone-work, on the threshold of a great stern building, whence she seemed to have been driven forth.
C’était, à peine éclairée par le jour mourant, une figure de femme, assise sur un soubassement de pierre, au seuil d’un grand et sévère logis, dont on semblait l’avoir chassée.
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities - RomeZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Rome
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And during nearly three hours, with his beer untasted before him, Claude went on talking and arguing amid a growing fever, broken down as he was in body, and with his mind full of all the painting he had just seen.
Et, durant près de trois heures, en face de sa chope restée pleine, Claude parla, discuta, dans une fièvre croissante, le corps brisé, la tête grosse de toute la peinture qu’il venait de voir.
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All I do know and feel is that Delacroix's grand romantic scenes are foundering and splitting, that Courbet's black painting already reeks of the mustiness of a studio which the sun never penetrates.
Mais ce que je sens, c’est que le grand décor romantique de Delacroix craque et s’effondre; et c’est encore que la peinture noire de Courbet empoisonne déjà le renfermé, le moisi de l’atelier où le soleil n’entre jamais…
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Although they have hung your picture badly, it is all the same superb, a real bit of genuine painting.
Ils ont beau l’avoir mal placé, ton tableau est superbe, un fameux morceau de peintre! …
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And he added: "You've heard that she has given up painting. Yes, she busies herself with chemistry.
Et il ajouta : « Vous savez qu’elle a lâché la peinture, elle s’occupe de chimie.
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities - ParisZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Paris
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‘Music has killed painting; he'll never do anything!'
La musique a tué la peinture, jamais il ne fichera rien.»
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It was a working-room indeed; the caprice of a wealthy young man, who amused himself in his leisure hours by painting on glass.
Un atelier en effet, le caprice d'un garçon riche qui se plaisait au côté métier, dans la peinture sur verre.