text:  What subject has the painter worth a rush but the beauty of woman? We gaze for ever on the charming face which smiles on us from his canvass; we may gaze with perfect license--that veil which has just been lifted to the brow it will never be dropt again--but we do not gaze with perfect impunity; we turn from the lovely shadow with knees how prone to bend! And as to the sculptor on condition that he hold to the pure colourless marble is he not permitted to reveal the sacred charms of Venus herself? Every art is hers