Note 597 — Chapter XXIV

Biogr. Univ. Mademoiselle de Scuderi was not gifted by nature with beauty, or, as this biographer more bluntly says, étoit d’un extrême laideur. She would, probably, have wished this to have been otherwise, but carried off the matter very well, as appears by her epigram on her own picture by Nanteuil: Nanteuil, en faisant mon image, A de son art divin signalé le pouvoir; Je hais mes yeux dans mon miroir, Je les aime dans son ouvrage.