When he had need of a model he had only to say a word for Florent to set about finding one.
Did Lincoln exhibit at Paris or London, Florent took charge of the entire proceeding--seeing the journalists and picture dealers, composing letters of thanks for the articles, in a handwriting so like that of the painter that the latter had only to sign it.

Lincoln desired to return to Rome.

Florent had discovered the house on the Rue Leopardi, and he settled it even before Maitland, then in Egypt, had finished a large study begun at the moment of the departure of the other.
Florent had, by virtue of the affection felt for his brother-in-law, come to comprehend the paintings as well as the painter himself.

These words will be clear to those who have been around artists and who know what a distance separates them from the most enlightened amateur.
The amateur can judge and feel.

The artist only, who has wielded the implements, knows, before a painting, how it is done, what stroke of the brush has been given, and why; in short, the trituration of the matter by the workman.