Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-15
The PaEisian Art Models.
Some Of the Beauties made Immortal OF
 Canvass

The Partisan Art Models. Some Of the Beauties made ImIn6rtaI on Canvas.
 l From the Paris Figaro.I
 The reception of paintings for the annual exhibition will begin in few weeks. The
 artists are hard at work in the studios day and night and SO also are the models. The
 modelsl Volumes could be written on this sui generis variety of the human species, the
 eternal astonishment of ordinary folks. But
 space is limited, and I must confne myself within the modest bounds of a sketch.
 There are models and models; things of the
 same sort are not alike. While posing the
 model is simply a model-a being of the
 third, the neuter sex, so to speak; outside of
 that she is an individual. This woman who displays herself in naturalibus to the eyes of the artists is an excellent mother of family
 and household drudge. That one who poses only in costume and would not for all
 the gold in the world allow the painter g ' glimpse of her bust is prodigaI enough of the l charms with which nature has so abundantly endowed her, in the circle of her intimate l friends.
 r While residing at the mansion at present ! occupied Dy GnS DE1S1Sn ALQDHssa4OE, 6dullu6 Borgheses Boaaparte's beautiful sister, posed nude before Oanova. A great lady, friend ! of hers. scandAIizsd by this act of complais- | ance, said:
 Nude before man! An, my dear, how could you 2"
 Bah replied the princess. ''There WAS | a fire in the room"
 There was a fre-that was sufficient. The nude model looks neither to the right nor to | the left. It walks about the studio like Eve, ! warns itself at the stove with its hands be- I hind the back, blows its nose in a handksr- | chief which hangs across the back of chair, and all that ss tranquiuy and indifferently as | if dressed
 | Robed, in fact, in chsste beauty ! Of which art is the designer.
 ! For the model the painter is not 8 man nc | more than the former is 8 woman for the | painter. During the pose both live in sn \ ideal world in which the sexes do not exist ! and in which matter is revealed, so to say, to | the eyes of the soul rather than to those of t the body. But let an intruder knock at the door of the studio and the model fees ia g 1 fright and hides behind a curtain. Nodesty, 1 that virtue dormant in every woman, aWak- 1 ems at the approach of 8 profsne step near the temple. Besides models who pose nude | there are those who pose in costume. One | is piquant Parisisnns of the present day, 1 another of the time of Louis XIV, third ! as Mary Stuart. One poses the ''hsad-dress' I of Chinese women, of women of the time of Louis XV. or of ancient Rome this one the \ hat, ' that one the hand, another the foot, ! third the shoulders, breast, back or limbs. Thus for 8 single statue 6 sculptor often employs seven or eight models each one having her speciality.
 In their modes of life they also have their
 specialties.
 There is, for instance, the grave and seri-
 aus modsl, who after her professional career,
 more or less extended, narries and settles
 down. Then the sentimental model, who,
 smitten with certain artists, poses only for
 them, and her opposite, the model who, very
 demure and quiet in the studio, is the life
 and soul of the Elysse-Montmartre in the
 evening.
 Another type is the good fellow" of
 model, aho joins to the beauty of her per son an excellent character and all the in
 -tincts of a housewife, dusts the studio. lights the fire and mcnds the artists trousers Such 8 one is Marie C., g tall girl, with lorg brown hair, as honest as any model in the world, but who can refuse nothing to her artist She is his mistress in order not to cauEe him any grief, his nu-se through econ- omy and hiG model because she has every thing need Iul-aiEsys agreeable, punetual as a chronomster, iisrobing at the first signal and rssumiug her slippers between two poses.
 Fhsn fuslly, there is the pretensious model, who only goes to the great painters, or st least to those who have received Q medal She not only poses, but also advises. If there is q student in the masters studio she sharply lectures him, and if he does not take it in good part she says: II know what I'm talking about. Bsuguereau's Virgin my young fellow, that's me. possd for it."
 The public generally hss an idea about the ''beautifuI medel." It imagines that the model should be the typo of perfect beauty. Nothing of the sort. Painters, if not sculp- tors, placo on par with perfection of form she art of posing, gracefulnsss, elegance of attitude, the harmony of ensemble-in a word, the professional qualifications general ly There is not one who would not prefer the old model who knows her ''paces" to the most beautiful girl ''posing like a crane" as is the technical expression.
 Allow me to introduce to you few of our
 models. Vietorins Meurant, the type of the model of former times, has posed for Ste- vens, Nanet, Olarin and Gervsx. She has red hair and literary proclivities dashes of little songs in an agreeable way and leads B boistsrous life, partly in the big studios and partly in the minor thestres-ths Folies-Ms riRnsy was her cradle. She has become painter by reason of her frequent visits to the artists. Her speciality is to paint the portraits of ths gay cocottes. She lives at AsniersS, where, in 6 furniture store next to the theatre, there is permanent exhibition of her works.
 mm6. b0rLna IS Q GHIl, very eI6gHp5 WOnHn. She poses in costume for the painters of Pa risian scenes-Beraud, Stevens Forain, Robert, &o. She is a thorough Parisisnne.
 Louise is beautiful blonde, Of medium height, but formed like the Venus Of Milo She is very graceful and has some virtues
 Emma, an experienced model, essGmes her attitudes herself. She is at present posing for Gsrome.
 Fernando is, like Victorine, the type of the model of former times. She poses only rare ly, but still shows herself in the studios, camps in brewery in the Rue Fontaine and has her museum in the Rue Lspic. Almost all the models have their museums What painter would refuse sNsketch draft of painting to the beautiful girl who had posed for him, unveiled, for hours at 8 time?
 AnnaI Weep, for, alas, she has married l! The superb creature, with her dar6-brown her big black eyes and her per feet contour. When not posing she was waitress iR the brswerieS of the Quartier Latin, among others at the ''Sherry Cob bler,'' that little wine shop, now disappeared, whose history would make sequel to the Roman comiQue, and which was the resort of all ths younger" talent of the present day MGupassant, Paul Bourget, Oatulle Mendss, Villiers de PIsle Adam, 1 Bouchor. Moynet, Sapeck, &c. Oae day l Anna was stricken down with the fever. The iIlustrious Sapeck had pity on her, took | her South, cared for and cured her, and, by | an excsss of originality, forgot to make her 1 his mistress Anna returned to Paris. A | poet opened flower stand for her in the Rue | d d'Amsterdam Her business, however, | failed. and she again became 8 model. Now | she is a wife and mother. Weep! 1
 Between the models of the Quartier Mont | parnassa and those on the Avenue de Villiers | tbet exists an eternal warfare which some l times degsnerates into destruction of chig- l mons. The reason is obvious. Qe@n there l near the Luxembourg the first ofttimes cruel l step ia taken here near the Park Monceau is | tho zenith. Here number of wealthy gen. tIenen may be met with, passionate admirers l of paintings, who do not always content | themselves with the copy, but sometimes add | the original to their purchase. And what 1 model has not hugged this dream!