St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-05


is seldom that model is hired for the
whole day, as an artist cannot work
upon one subject so steadily. But if he
is rich and succeeds he keeps her In
readiness to await his mood, and pays
her just the same. 1t is then that the
model brings her lunch and her book.
and realizes that her lot has fallen in
very pleasant path.
Very often an artist is too poor to pay
model for every hour she spends in his
studio. Suppose he has chance visitors.
who, being possible patrons, cannot be
neglected, and yet he wants to paint on
his picture. He then SAYS to the model:
81 will pay you $40 week, and want
you for every spare minute you get.
Then the model, who Is invariable con-
scientiCus, drops in upon him at all
hours of the day,and if he has no callers
SITS for him.
Miss Ella Sterling and Miss Nellie
Taylor, the latter now little chubby.
are very fine models and very fine young
women as we'll Indeed, 1t may be
stated that all good models are young
ladies' of rare mental attributes. or they
would be unable to catch the artistic
inspiration, and so could never give the
right expression TO the pictures.
Like Professional Beauties.
Professional models are like profess
sional beauties in society. They have a
great deal to start with, But, unless
they supplement this with great care on
their part, they would never hold their
own in comp .tition with others of their
set. In many respects model must
treat herself as il she were society
beauty, and so in many ways her life is
as expensive as the women Of the
smart set"
Models must be very careful not to
catch cold, for a cold makes the face
red, and redness is not the peaches and
cream shade desired for a picture.
They must be careful, too, to avoid
stiffness and neuralgia and rheumatism.
as these make pose difficult to get and
tiresome to maintain. They must,
above all things. avoid the injuries like
"black and blue spots" and. cuts and
burns, for nothing makes an artist
more provoked than to be compelled to
supply flesh tints to his pictures.
The chief trouble with an artists
model. like that of any woman who
longs to remain beautiful, is her tend
ency to get stout. AS soon as she loses
her lines she might as we'll retire from
all poses for the nude. Hereafter she
must pose corseted and draped and i'll
society dress. For this work she gets
only little pay. possibly 30 cents an
hour, and this kind Of a model more
often than not StarveS to death sum-
mers and in dull seasons.
A large revenue is obtained by few
elegantly formed girls who pose for
portraits. A society woman will order
her picture painted. and will then hire
girl to sit while the dress Is being
done. The lady herself only sits for
face, neck, hands aud hair. Thus the
sitting for portrait, which is usually
such a long and tedious operation, is
made much easier. The lady who is
being painted drops in from time to
time, to be sure that the gown is receiv-
ing the touches and lines it would have
| if she herself wers wearing it, instead
of the CLOTHES horse" which the model
sometimes facetiously terms herself.
There is a, models story illustrative
| Of the attention which an artist pays to
his model. 1t was picture of laugh
ing girl, with her head in her hands,
that was on the canvas. And the artist
had it nearly done. "Now, keep very
STILL" said he, land 1 will finish that
| chin"
"You have kept me in position for
more than an hour without a rest" said
| the model, land am getting nervous.
please, dear Miss A, do not mention
resting just now" cried the enthusiast
tic artist; IL am just in the painting
! mood, and | shall finish the laughing
girl in another hour. Now, attention,
please"
The Model Cried.
But the model, weary, as she after
ward said, SO that she really couldn't
help it," began to cry, ever so little, let
ting her chin culver and her lips pout
unsmilingly. Meanwhile the artist
painted rapturOusy, watching every
line In the chin, and copying it exactly.
| Was the picture success? Far from
| it. 1t was torn up. stamped upon,
| thrown away, and the model sent flying
out of the door when the artist realized
| how she had made him spoil what he
hoped would be a masterpiece. This
| story is only to show that gay badinage
is not INDUCED in during painting mo-
| ments; nor are artists and their models
In the habit of conversing.
Sir Joshua Reynolds and the painters
of his day, whether painters of the nude
or the draped, had no difficulty in get
ting models. nor were they put to any
expense. In those halcyon artistic day:
there were fewer painters, and these
few were lionlzed beyond belief. The
highest tribute an artist could pay so
clety lady was to ask her to pose for one
OF his pictures.
All the Old pictures have the hands O
celebrated beauties. and the undrapel
pictures brought over for the Chicago
fair were the forms of ,old-time famous
beauties. And history tells how the,
arrived at the artists studios with thei
maids in attendance; and how careful
the artist was 10 have luncheon pro
,,u.u Tor them. and the rooms suffi
GENTLY warm for my lady in decollete
A very handsome screen. with mirror
an,i all toilet things was procured, ali,
when not lying upon couch posing