St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-17
STUDIES FOR RENT.
Art students May Copy COIOred
Plates il they PaY.

a blue-eyed. girl with a box of artists
colors and brushes in her hand walked into
a picture dealers store on upper Eighth
avenue, says the New York Sun, and said
10 the little, dark-mustached dealer:
Il want study in landscapes, please"
Certainly" the dealer replied, with a
smile. ''fve anything you want, you
know"
He walked to great leather portfolio as
he spoke, threw it open, and revealed
stacks of. cOlored plates. The blue-eyed
girl studied the landscape samples with
critical leisure until she saw one of an old
uee-embOwered house beside sunlit brook.
1t struck her fancy at once She drew it
out Of the portfolio and asked its price.
E3''A dollar and half" the dealer replied,
as he wrapped it in fine paper.
''All right, said the art student, cheerily,
Il will bring it back next week"
''Then the rent of it will be Just so cents, {"
explained the dealer, as he received crisp
dollar note and a silver half-dollar and put
them in drawer.
''What i'll the world did that lady mean
by saying she'd bring that picture back next
week." another customer asked in surprise
why, she's only rented it to make
copy of it, the dealer responded with
laugh. Il make it a part of my business to
rent pictures to students of art schools.
That's what that sign in the show window.
Studies for Rent, means. There are only
two other picture dealers in town besides
myself in the business, and we make
snug little thing out of it. We
find that there is a regular and steady
demand for the studies all the year round
III the art schools and converts.
rha II
these students had to buy studies for COPY
ing outright. Now they can hire them at
from % to so cents per week, according to
the size of the picture. If any picture is
kept longer than week half rates are
charged for the additional privilege. The
customer pays the full price of the picture
down as deposit in the first instance, and
receives the balance when the study is re-
turned"
'What do the studies themselves cost?"
''They are imported from France, and
are worth from 80 cents to 50, according to
size. They are called OleographS, and you
will notice that the appearance of an oil
painting is more faithfully secured than i'll
the ordinary chrOmoS. The surface of the
picture is left Unvarnished to heigthen this
resemblance and secure perfect fac
simile i'll the varying shades
OF color. Every variety OF study is
reproduced by the process expressly for the
use of art students. There are flowers and
animals, human heads and figures, and all
sorts of landscapes in all sorts of tintS."
The dealer shut up the portfolio suddenly,
and we walked up an Oaken staircase to a
bright and cheerful room overhead. Statu-
ary was scattered about in artistic profu-
sion. and pictures resting upon handsome
easels stood in different positions.
This" said the dealer, sis another nov
city. We call it our study gallery. Art
students come here every day with their
brushes and cOlorS and canvasseS and paint
from these pictures. They pay a small fee
for the use of the picture and get the use of
the room free. The latter privilege is
priced because, as you see, the gallery is
fitted up and lighted like an artists studio,
and is preferable on this account to the
apartments of an ordinary private house."