The Press., 1897-09-16
STUDENTS FRIEND.
A DEALER IN CoAoas IN THE LATIN
 QUARTER OF PARIS

Many ArtisEs Who Have "'ArriVed" Owe Much to M. POlnets Lo~e OE Art and BeneRoleDOe-The Popular suppersGAven Nm His XAttle Shop.
 If an art student of the Latin Quarter knows not M Foinet. that student Is but 0 humble creature, pitifully new to the republic of painters And who Is FoinetP He has little chop in an an oient winding streeS of the old quarter, the Rue Notre Dame de Champs, and there keeps colors for the acoommoda tion of impecunious painters It is a lit tie shop truly, with bandbox of sale manager Just behind, the minute salon and living rooms above but many a celebrity laid the foundation for his fame in the pigments cheerily furnished by Foine$ Now 69, good nature and the wholesome reflection of bis benevo- lenoe from the fanc4es of thousand friends have kept this marchand de couleurs to the appearance of 40. His youthfulness remarked, "Ah," he says with twinkle of his kindly blue eyes, cit keeps one fin good color to deal in good colorsf' As he deals only fn the best of colors, ''those fit for the making of masterpieces, '' 1t Is quite in keeping that he should have the rosy freshness that reddish hair and mustache oomple- ment, and which seem to belong only to the glow oR vigor still In flower.
 | Having had twoscore years of ex- perience in the trade that is so closely akin to art, FoiDet has more the oharao- ter of an artist than of a tradesman, and 8 glance around the walls of his costly establishment betrays who are his friends among those who have ''ar- rived" Here are pieces by Dataille, by Bonpat, by Jean Paul Laurens, by Ga Folus- Duran, by Ca1in, by Geri Melohers, by Chretien, by Paul Stock, by Yongind (whose little pieces have sold for as much as 5000 and {, O00 francs each since his death ], the original of FFago- nard's ''La Balancoire" evidences enough of Foinet's intimate relations with artists who, famous afterward, have been indebted to the man of oolors for many sustaining kindness
 A veritable patron, Mecenas of points, 1t is necessary that Foinet be we'll to do, and we'll to do he Is, and with the means to gratify his benevolenoe be has also the taste to minister comfort to the re- fined appetite. Foinet's little suppers in the shop are as celebrated as Foinet him. self, and to be hidden to one of them is mark of distinction-an honor the ambitious youth covets, courtesy the most successful esteems The suppers are served in the shop. and wines of choice vintage, served in bottles orusted with cellar mold, are so liberally dis pensed that sobriety at the end of the evening Is accounted an insult to the host Baoohus js the presiding deity ever, and when his votaries revolve into the salon where coffee Is poured it is no' permitted that one of them be able per fectly to declare how many candles are burning. Yet woe to the culprit who has 60 week bead that he riots in his cups Foinet values him and his pros peots not tot Men who have 1t ill them to ''arrive" will not islander good wine by playing the fool under 1t, is Foinet'f opinion
 If a carefully watched young painter ! somewhere Q medal, the color merchant radiant over the achievement, gives one of these notable suppors in honor of hif protege, and the result i5 much the same as when Beau Brummel made a mar by taking his arm for walk in the Mall The supper Is the confession oi faith-Foinet'a intimation that he be. lieves the painter has, to all intents and purposes, ''arrived, <" though he says one requires l5 years in which really ''tC arrive. What phrase that isl How signifcantl And what vast force Il has in the French world of art and let tersl He'll arrive ' Nohigher oompA menS may be spoken by master of pupil 'He has arrived. " The crown is on hit head. And so Foinet, who has seen st many men arrive and knows by sort of masterly intuition who Is likely tC ''arrive, ' has that superb patience RnC that unwavering confidence which aEt necessary to make either 0 great genius or noble creditor.
 Let any student with talent only as { grain of mustard seed and with 1t hon est perseverance go to Foinet, and tht ruby faced patron will trust him till tht light goes out of the moon or foods intS the painters atelier. Indeed, Foinet X as little in love with sensitive debtor as he is with a too temperate banQueter
 Be it understood that more than Ont art student in the Quartier Latin woulC find 1t impossible to pursue h}s or hel studies were it not for the philanthroph Foinet, who gives them credit mont& after month for their paints and bas tht grace of soul not to impose upon then the martyrdom of debt Paints are ex pensive, and some students who havt barely enough for bread would fare Il for working materials but for this stm pie hearted and genuine bienfaiteur II the old fashioned street near the Lux embourg. That this frank generosity il not ignobly betrayed may be inferred from the fact of the dealer's compara tive opulence, Nevertheless he vii shake his head in compassionate sadnes as he sayss ''There are too many stu dents of art who ought to be students O agriculture. They could now landscape better than they can paint them. It \ sad to see one quite without taHen struggling to succeed In an art that ha no pity whatever for mediocrity. Butt And that shrug of the shoulders wh&ol Is more eloquent and more impresstV' than a monologue. Chicago Times Herald.
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