New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-01
STORIES or THE STTDIO.

From The London GiObC
There is one Oh model who has spent many years
of his life AZ a small radeSnan, but who cannot for
yet the happy hours he has spent III tue studio, ana
VINO wandcrs round from time 10 time looking IN on
those he met when they were young, watching the
progress they have made. and r"atln@ tue anecdotes
he has heard during his long experience.
The old man can SPIN yarns by the hour, ana ms
the amount of pOlIteneS5 they have shown toward
those who sat for them. Thus he says thai lngTos
was a most violent man, brusquc, ill-tempered, and
treating his model Is he would NANCY cur full or
talent but without single grain of common po-
hten s. III hls nature. On the contrary. DelacrolX
was mild, polite and unassumlng. lie used to ask
ms models to vary their position with as much defer
cnce If he had been speaking to KING. Nmle
the old man working with DeIarOchc, Young
man used to sit by the side OF the painter and sketch
the model The young mIn was GcroEc, who mas
now formed a school OF ms own and earned rcpu-
tatIou for the manner in which he has taught his
Ing ish and American pupils. Gerome. was then
only eighteen, and another OF his pOlte companions,
NJ HaS,;lert Is described having divided his time
betwcca art and the worship of BacchuS, mnch TO
the disgust of DaiarOche. Horace Nernet was gay
and jOviaI, laughing and talking win MS models,
like Prader under whose hand HE was INFUSED
into the sculptOTs clay and INTO the cold marble.
Neither OF them appeared to have any difficulty in
carrying out the ideas they had conceived, When
they had made up their minds what painting
TO begin what statue they should undertake.
they worked on merrily, chatting and singing art
ling the while on their gay and happy DISPOSE
tons, while everything they did was largely appro-
ciated by the public.
Nothing can be more entertaining ~ this period
of the wear when the cold cheeIe wea her without
gives one the blues, than to pay visit to some OF
the studios those o. the fashionable painters but
those of the men no Struggling hard to tan the
favorable verdict or the public. Quaint stores are
told and models and artists we with each other IN
their reco,lectiOns of men and incidents. The name
is mentioned of the young girl who sat so ire
duently TO IBgrcs and who could hardly find words
to express her gI1ct when she was compelled 10
leave the studio and follow the mau who had been
chosen as "A husband for her by her friends. The
artist also expressed a regret and was looking
when she ingenuously remarked ON! NJ. lngres, II
you want 20 give me anything, pray let me carry
away the Cross of the Legion OF Honor given us IOf
our last picture" The legend says that he gave the
cross which the wife prizes to this very day.
The lady models are stauneh partlSanS oil those
who have made them famous, and do not scrnple
from time 10 time take up the cudgels III defence
of those who are absent when any Jealous coHJrere
attempts 10 depreciate their talent Female models
are very particular Ii ~ not unusual Tor them 10
fancy that they are really the characters they pre-
tend TO be, and more than once an artist has met
with firm refusal from the person VINO has sat 10
him as high-bOrn dame, and whom he has asked 10
pose as tho rustic damsel who replied that her face
was her fortune They say they cannot put on the
garb OF the peasant rs their movements are those
OF n lady and their gestures and hands are sure 10
betray them. Others think that they have con
tnbuted largely toward the success of men OF the
day and do not scruple To say that without their
aid fame would never have been achieved. When
any figure i'll the Salon has been more than casually
remarked such as the "Vertep OF jules Lefebyre,
the Idylle" of Henner, or the "ROsee" of Carolus
Duran, more than one model can be found ready 10
claim the honor of having sat for the portrait.
Henner could tell that the model chosen Tor his
Idylle was young girl of eighteen, who had
| run away from her home Ill Brittany. and had.