Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-11

that weep over Partisan wickedness all
through the autumn and winter The
ycLng man, fresh and innocent, has been
primed and warned. He will rot try for
the official studies of the Beaux-Arts be-
cause there the newcomer has to submit
to hazing too disgraceful for a freeborn
American. such being stripped like a
model, painted many colors or even tarred
Also the examinations which are required
are rather stiff fer our western habits Of
study.
SO he directs himself to the Julian school
In the Rue du Dragon. where the bulk of
American painters of Paris breeding have
preceded him. He has high hat on his
mead, like Harry Hare which in time will
also try his respiration. But all he hears
as he enters the working room where the
students of painting are gathered is the
u animous cry, "Ze rich American paws
re drinks!'
Not at once. for work is on hand. II is
rev to his experience of tame art as prac-
ticed among boys and girls at home Here.
Tor valid reasons. the students are ali
males. The American girls who must and
VIII study art in Paris have to go by them
serves, very properly, and many of them.
after exploring the ground, settle down
contentedly to private study under some
american artist who has transferred his
classes from America to the glamors of a
lCrelgn shore. But the young men at
tend TO the strict and serious business of
their profession under French auspices.
Selecting the Model
This Monday morning there is a strong
oocr OF Italian art in the field 1t is the
MODEL Market" when nine or ten of the
living beings whom the student is to study
In muscle and framework, dimples and
foreshortening. are standing on a platform
IN row, waiting for the inspection of the
sttdents after which votes will be taken
and those who please best will be engaged
to pose for the class as long as they may be
wanted. ~
They are all in the dress which was the
Invisible garment of Adam and Eve before
the fall. There is an old man who has
been celebrated Samson and a st. Je-
rome in the desert, and beside him is the
patient-icoking Christ Of more than one
painting exhibited at the salon. There are
some young children who have been Cupids
or cherubs. and there are young women
who have posed for Rochegrosses Babylon.
There are whole families that find lv-
ing, from father and mother to sons and
daughters. by posing as models. Bougue-
reau Is said to paint now, the children and
grandchildren of his first models. Some be-
long to the class named in the Latin Quar-
ter "studentess.' and they find a consid-
cradle increase Of income from these stu
dos. When the annual ball of the stu
dents of the Four Arts comes around-the
Bal des Quat-z-Arts. which once led Paris
to the edge of a revolution and is now held
with doors rigidly closed to the profane,
under the eyes Of a police force-all these
young women models join in the parade
and the fun.
On this Monday morning when the choice
has been made. the rejected hubble on
their clothes and disappear. The elect lady
continues on her platform and takes the
pose indicated, and the students, who have
no time to lose, begin drawing her outlines
and form from every point of view. To be
''out Of drawing" is the one objectionable
sin of an artist nowadays. when every
trained student can learn to draw as he
oEce learned to write. 1t is this excellence
of the training in drawing that makes the
Paris schools the best in the world.
What the Models Earn.
The first thing which the young American
has to learn Is to see the minutest shades
Of form. for until now he only saw 1t in a
general way. Wherever the least shadow is
made by the light from face or arm or bust
to foot and toe, drawing must reveal it, al
though the best photography might not.
But to draw the student must first see, and
1t Is only by long study Of these models.
with many failures in his drawing. that he
painter who criticises the students work
stops and says: Pas NAL" mot bad).
1t IL to work for year, perhaps, up to
that time, that the American with the high
hat on his head has appeared at the studio
this Monday mornins The model. whom
twenty francs, or a a week for posing
daily one-ha8 day, except on Sundays and
holidays. II the model poses all day. every
student Gives TO the model from whom he
is drawing one big copper-two cents. This
Il on We1nssday and Saturday by way OF
the tradlt3onal s'pourboire." which belongs
to. the universal French tipping habit
/ It = sOmcthtng more than tip to the