Perhaps, on the other hand, he had retained enough of the artistic temperament to be able to find a genuine satisfaction in watching these individual features take on a more general significance when he saw them, uprooted and disembodied, in the abstract idea of similarity between an historic portrait and a modern original, whom it was not intended to represent.
Edo beharbada, aitzitik, berak ere atxikia zuen bere baitan behar bezainbateko artista-sena, hainbesterainokoa bederen non ezaugarri indibidual haiek esangura orokorrago bat hartuz sortzen baitzioten atsegina, sustrai gabetuak, jareginak hautematen zituelako, antzinako erretratu batek irudika ez zezakeèn gaur egungo original batekin bide zeukàn antzekotasunean.