The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-16

theY endure more ana are not 30 Iuli OF caprices,
the Academy Life School the regular interval 0 rest
occurs every twenty minutes, but sometlIns ,s
t 20 the aerree every tv experienced By
the model, In Paris and Europe generally pro-
fcssional model VIII pose Tor one h4ur, any -
sometimes taken down perfectly still ana rigid
The pose thus asts four hours, with rest OF hiteen
minutes at the end OF each hour. This makes nve
franc, or twenty cents, an hour. In excep-
tiunal cases larger prices are given In TINS CITY
the employment OF NODES IL mucn more ex-
pensve, the usual price being seventy-five cents
Sn hour. During the two weeks for which any one
model ~ engaged at the Academy, therefore, ne
makes $27, exclusively OF what he picks up az such
clubs as the Pslette, where models are used, or at
the artists studios. Men and women are paid the
same price, and we believe that MT. J. G.
Brown, the industrious and pleasing genre
painter, who employs children does not depart
much from this tariff Artists, however, fire.
m virtue OF which they pay them so much per
week.
EccENrRICITIEs OF MODELS.
Models, like all the rest OF the world, possess
varioCs eccentrieties, which seem 10 arise nalur-
ally cut Of their calling. very fine and hand.
students at the Academy, made the stipulation
that she should wear a mask-a request that Mr..
Wilmarth with characteristic delicacy, cheerinlly
granted. There was one model a Spanish veteran,
who was so delighted with one OF the drawings Tor
which he had stood, that he enthusiastically
bought 1t, and 80 spent all the money ne had
made during the pose. There Is one phase of
subject which must be touched gently and aDan-
w.
ness Gases occasionally come to light in artists
studios in which married, and apparently respect.
able women who have all the money tney n ,iss
voluntarily prefer themselves as models, seeking
no other recompense than the pleasure winch the
morbid exposure yields them. Then, again. there
are artists who make IL business to "Dreak M
modeIs-that is to obtain the service OF young
beautiful and finely formed girls. who have never
submitted to such exposure before, and in whom
the beauty OF nakedness are often enhanced with
the blush ana difdence of innocence. But
care to dwell. True art has q certain chastity in
its touch which, without being cold IS yet temper
ately cool and calm. 1t has no billings, writings
and stlngs none Of the '.roses and raptures," and
"lilies and languorsr which degrade true poetry's
calm pulsaton and make 1t an erotlc rhapsody.
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.
One Of the iavorite male models at the Academy
is native Of Great Britain, well formed and 81 a
mense in stature is considered excellent. There is
o waiter at a casino, who, being well formed and
disengaged by day, let's himself out thus at night,
Another desirable model is an engineer dranghts-
man, who has been employed in one OF the most
responsible public works now going near this
city, A certain POmeranian has also been IN
request. But all painters OF the nude in this city
confess that the difficulties here in the way OF their
art are insuferable and that II they wish to paint
to the best advantage they must go abroad. There
the thing is regularly systematlzed and made q
prOe Of The model keeps himself IN good
condition as relgiousy as an athlete or prize
fighter. Agencies are established, and the artist
has only to describe to the agent precisely what he
is procurable, and engagements, when necessary.
made in advance. Here the crude material only is
obtainable. You get your naked man or
woman, and that is all. Half the time
is spent in instructing the model, whose
ignorance and incapacity momenfarily make
themselves evident. Beside the life school, the
principal artists who use nude models are Augero
(whO by the by has gone to Europe TO remain
permanently, Eastman Johnson, Smile, VIM.
Morgan, f. L. Henry and Senior Gutierrez But the
nude is not much admired here or II 1t is 1t Is adj
mlred secretly. During the recent exhibition OF
pictures at Mr.. Sherwood's handsome gallery 522
Fifth avenue scarcely one OF the ladies' and gentle
men who visited there had the courage the taste
to pause before Cabanes exquisite picture OF ''sve
after the Expulsion rom Paradise" giving front
full length view OF our first mother lovely in her
unconscious nakedness, but spiritualZed and re-
fined by her unlathomable grief.