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Identifier: howtoshowpictur00hurl (find matches)
Title: How to show pictures to children
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May), 1863-1924
Subjects: Art -- Study and teaching
Publisher: Boston, New York Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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embroidered
jacket, with a bright-colored sash tied diagonally
across his breast with the fringed ends fluttering
behind. With this costume he had a high-crowned,
broad-brimmed hat which was very jaunty. As a
crowning touch, his gauntlets and riding-boots gave
him a look of real manliness. Dressed in this way he
had many a fine gallop along the country roads, exer-
cising the plump little pony, which was so well fed in
the royal stables that it needed a brisk gallop now
and then. The pony was as playful as his rider, and
knew how to please his master.
Of course a prince could not ride unattended. His
riding-master or some courtier followed at a suitable
distance to see that no harm befell the boy. Some-
times this attendant would go on ahead, wheel
around, and watch the little cavalier approach. Then
how proudly the six-year-old boy would square his
shoulders and sit at attention. To teach him how to
bear himself as a king, he was given a baton, the
symbol of authority, and told how to carry it, and
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PRINCE BALTASAR CARLOS ON HIS PONY

The Prado Gallery, Madrid

HOW TO MAKE PICTURES TELL STORIES 33

how to use it to give orders. It was like playing he
was field marshal at some great military occasion.
The pony seemed to enter into the spirit of the game,
by leaping forward with great effect.
The king had a court painter named Velasquez, of
whom he was very fond. Velasquez had become much
attached to the royal household, and liked nothing
so much as to paint the portrait of the young prince
to please the king. He had visited the riding-school
to watch the boy's progress in horsemanship, and
often saw him on his country rides. The inspiration
came to him that he could make a splendid picture of
the scene, and he threw himself into this task with
unusual enthusiasm. He used a large canvas, which
made the subject seem very real and lifelike. The
king was so proud of it that he kept it in his favorite
palace, and it has been handed down to our own day
in all its original beauty.

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