The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-11-13
PERSEING
PORTRAIT
ADMIRED
American Commander
in-Chief Saw Her
Work in Bronze and
Requested Sittings
for SOn-Pope Bene-
dict Congratulates
Her.

Her.
medal to honor the American SOL
diers killed in France, and The
Guardian Angel of the United
States
I'm 1918. Madame Mouroux was
commissioned by the overseas COM
mittee of the Y. M. c. A.. to de-
sign a medal to commemorate the
services of the associations secre-
taries In France. Twenty thousand
medals were struck from this de-
sign. At the same time. at the
request OF the Overseas Masonic
Club, she made a portrait Of Col.
H. H. Whitney. chief Of the gen
eral staff"
MADE MEDAL FOR "Y."
In her own land of France
Madame Mouroux has designed
many medals to celebrate ami.
versaries. The influence of the
war upon her work. so she tells
us. was profound. More than all
others, Jeanne dare became to her
the symbol of patriotism and SUI
fering. She has thus portrayed
the young saint in an idealized,
aureoled head OF a peasant girl.
One of her striking medals the
past winter in New York was of
the strong and impressive face II
the Honorable Maurice Casenave.
minister plenipotentiary and d.
rector general Of, the French serv-
Ices in the United States. Tbs
oblong shape Of, the medal en-
phasizes the effect.
The commission for President
Hard.ng's portrait came as a SUI
prise to Madame Mouroux in July.
She was camping in the Maine
woods, having left her studio in
New York early in June. After stop
ping at Silver Bay, that haunt of
beauty on Lake George, she went
to visit her friend, Mrs. Gulick. at
the well-known Luther Gulick camps
in South Casco, Me. Here came a
letter from M. Leonce Benedite, the
widely famous director of the Mu-
scum of the Luxembourg.
GAVE UP HOLIDAY.
NJ. Benedite, who visited America
last year. and who is one of Madame
Mouroux's good friends, wrote her
of the official commission from the
French government. She loves life
in the country, and she was plan
about September 1. Yet the French
government had already obtained the
consent of President Harding to
give the sittings. So Madame Mour-
roux. with her usual courage for
new undertakings, relinquished her
and prepared to come to the
Capital about the middle of July.
The ambassador Of France at WASH
ington arranged the sitting with the
"She is a woman full Of talents"
said his excellency. M. Jusserand.
with his genial smile. as we chatted
together about the artist and her
foreign artists. and Madame Mou-
roux by her gaiety and responsive
ness made a firm place for herself
here. She had a week of sittings
with the President, who was all
She lunched at the
White House. She was also a lunch.
con guest Of Mrs. Edward B. Nc
Lean at Friendship" the Misses
Moves entertained at dinner In her
honor a company Of artists and lit
erary folk. and at the Arts Club,
where she gave an informal talk on
her impressions Of America, Madame
Mouroux was a dinner guest of DIR.
md Mrs. Carroll. She also dined
at the Powhatan Roof Garden. and
visited the Capitol. where she climb
I'd to the dome for a view of the
city. She motored about the Speed
way and through beautiful Rock
Creek Park with Mr.. and Mrs. West
AXE. She left Washington with
ieep regret. unable to accept .
iozen other invitations.
Behold me-" she wrote on her
-eturn to New York. "once more In
his immense city which ] love so
much after that week Of enchaut.
nent and dream. passed in the flow. y
,ry city of Washington. Never,
never shall forget those few days
certainly the most beautiful of m1