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Marcel Proust at 16, 1887.

His classmates told biographers of his "big Oriental eyes."

Oriental was a euphemism for Jewish in Paris at that time.

Daughters of Jethro by Botticelli.

Maman Proust at about 40.                                                                               Grand-Mere Berncastel-Weil 1890

Robert ca 5, Marcel ca 7.

Marcel Proust at 20.                     Robert Proust at 18.

I suspect much of Robert goes into Proust's character Bloch.

James Tissot's painting Hide and Seek, 1880-82                             Gilberte ?Jean Renoir age 6 by Renoir, 1900

(Photographed from James Tissot, Victorian Life, Modern Love)

Left, James Tissot sketch of a fighting scene on the Champs-Elysees ca 1871showing one of the fee paying waterclosets.  Right, blueprint of the water closets before construction.

Tissot's painting L'Ambitieuse covers a book on Proust by Philip Tody.  See below.

Les Creuniers near Pourville and Manneporte.

Claude Monet ca 25, portrait

Son of Prince Leon Radziwill, ca 4.

Jeanne Pouquet and little brother.

Tissot's version of Dejeuner sur l'herbe theme

L'Ambitieuse by James Tissot

Lyautey, Proust, Veuve