SD1917. Diary Entry of Henry William Greville
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 22, 269 (in part).
Paris
Wednesday. April 2 1856
In the morning with Adelaide Sartoris, Browning the poet, Cartwright, and Leighton, to the Pourtales Gallery—a charming collection. The pictures that most pleased me were a Paul Veronese, a Rembrandt, and a Greuze. There is also a fine collection of Raphael ware—glass and bronzes. Pourtales has ordered by will that this collection should remain intact for ten years, and then to be sold to the highest bidder.
Text: Leaves from the Diary of Henry Greville, 2nd series, ed. Viscountess Enfield (London, 1884), pp. 332–333.
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