New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-26
SILHOUETTE,
CHOSTOF THE
PHOTOGRAPH
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- asLad me very good humoredly
va 80 mt trespassing on my goodness
~ -, him IN take a round with me,
ting that he had taken lessons ana
,~ol, off ois coat. l declared that mao
=, hrought my tools with me. The
- &c described in several pages, ana
Ds,,,.s how the governor offers eventually
=, 1e,d cloves, when ii dawns upon the
nroflist that the letter has oeen misreau
md the sports around him imagine ne 10
4 pugilist' Ii. ,,o,,ed
=, is said that when the artist explained
Tho mistake and told the interested sa'h-
ing what his profession really was
l,.ch one turned his back Another story
HE life states that he was once even
5enied access TO a lodging house because
The Iandlady would not demean hersen
NV letting lodgings TO man VINO ooeS
,bern common black shades.
The foibles and vanities OF Edouarl )
customers were many, as he himseh re-
lates. The fat desired TO be lean' the 'aii
70 be short, the PIGGY TO be Greek III pro-
Gle. large noses were the cause Oh
wrangling. for the silhouetust was pre-
rise about his art and insisted on always
giving a likeness 1t is written now one
woman refused to be satisfied with Edou-
art,e cutting of her and refused TO De
oontented until. he had made twenty dif-
torort attempts. When the woman asked
Co.. the twenty-frst, Edouart for an an
swer piled all twenty on top OF the other
and showed to his dissatisfied sitter that
the outlines all conceded as though they
had been cut by a steel die at one ana
the same time. The woman is SAID theh
10 have graciously acknowledged her
error and 10 have paid him the full price
an each of the twenty copies.
Arthur 5. Vernay, the collector, has
written on the subject of silhouettes, say
ing that it IS unknown who was the orisi-
nator of the art of preserving shadows.
Certainly it is an art of hundreds ana
even thousands, of years standing for
the Silhouette is frequently seen in Egyp-
tian painting and on Attic and Etruscan
vases
ANCIENT SHADOW ARTISTS.
"The earliest artists in monochrome,
saws Mr.. Vernay. "Cleanthes of Corinth,
Crates of Sicyon aud Philocles OF Egypt
practised autobiography which then
went by the name of 'slkiagraphy, and it
is therefore highly probable that they
were the first to make what are now
known as shadowgraphs or profiles in
silhouette"
The name Silhouette" was originally
that Of a French Minister of Finance
who, unlike the famous Dr.. Guillotine,
did not invent the art Of scientific PRONE
cutting. Etienne de Silhouette was made
minister at the end of an exceedingly ex-
pensive war. and he was responsible for
a system of economy in the national
finances that proved itself highly unpopu-
lar to the spendthrift nobility. Being
witty. however, they pretended to acqui-
esce in De Silhouette's reform, and by
cutting their coats short. using wooden
snuff boxes and carrying tin swords
they heaped ridicule on the minister's
we'll intentioned endeavors at economy.
Even the artists drew their portraits in
outline only and sold them for a few
francs in order-so they averred-to help
along De Silhouettes reform" All
these economies were referred to as being