New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-27
A WOMAN'S SUCCESS
Mile. Heuvelmans Beats Her
Male Rivals for Prix de Rome.

From The London Daily Telegraph.
For the first time in the history Of
French art. and since the institution OF
the famous Prix de Rome, young
woman student has been awarded the
| coveted honor over the heads Of her
male competitors. The successful laure-
ate is Mile Lucienne Antoinette Heu-
/ yelmans whose success In sculpture
! had occasion to mention two years ago.
when she obtained the second Grand
Prix. Something IS surely changed when
a young woman can obtain such rec
ompense, and "femlniSm" in France has
scored a distinct triumph. Some twenty
wears ago there was quite an cutlery
raised against what was then a daring
novelty-namely. the admission of fe-
male pupils al the Ecole des BeauX Arts.
The dispute finally Gained down. the
girl students were allowed TO follow the
classes, and they had the right TO get
instruction from the best teachers. But
IL was never dreamed Of then, or even
since. that a girl. or young woman,
would elbow her male companions out of
the way and secure for herself the
browning reward, that Of PriX de Rome.
Even the granting Of a second Grand
Prx already caused some excitement.
Many a prominent artist. whose voice
was Of great weight in official cirt ies,
was still opposed 10 any such idea as
that Of sending a young woman student
to the villa Medicis I'm Rome with a
purse from the state. But the ice is now
broken, and Mile. Heuvelmans leads the
way.
Mile. Hcuvelmans was born in Paris
on Christmas Day, 1880 Her parents
live near the Bastile, and her father had
a rather important atclicr of artistic
cabinet work. She had a liking for
sculpture at a very early age but really
did not begin 10 take it up seriously
until she was eighteen. She was then
preparing, as she told me. To secure her
brevet as a teacher i'm the municipal
schools Of Paris. She finally passed her
examination. and has In fact, for a num-
Der of years been teaching drawing and
modelling classes at the communal
schools. Before taking to sculpture she
had attempted painting. and for a year
she was pupil of NJ Humbert But
one day she saw copy of fountain by
lnjalbert representing girl trying To
close up the mouth of the fountains
head The subject tempted her, and she
tried to model il. She was pleased with
her success, and from that time forward
she had a regular passion for modelling
and sculpture. She entered the Ecole
des BeauX Arts seven years ago, and
btcdine a pupll OF VI. MdIQueStc ana NJ.
HannauX. She obtained 4 prize at the
end of her first year at the school, and
had rccompense Of one kind or another
each subsequent year. For six years
past she entered zen lOge" every year for
the PriX de- Rome. After obtaining the
second Grand PriX two years ago she
had great hopes of getting the PrX dc
Rome last year. but the outcome was a
terrible disappointment 10 her Still she
made another attempt this year and put
all her energy into II. with success at
last. The various academies united.
after a long deliberation at the concm-
sion Of all the competitions by the stu
dents zen logc." announced that the
Grand PrX de Rome was awarded To her
There was quite a scene IN the court
yard after this announcement. The
young men, her fellow students. vera