Studio: international art (19.1900)

A Master Draughtsman

evenings in the wings at the theatre or the circus ; inimitable way how he did it. It was after a
or mix with the crowd at a public meeting; or sitting at which Mr. Ingalls had delivered a violent
attend the funeral of some celebrity. Here, for attack on President Cleveland. The orator was
instance, we have Rochefort voyageant d Carmaux; still quivering with his eloquence when the artist
Jan res chantant la Carmagnole ; La Messe a Mazas; caught him, and kept him for two hours in a room
Gambetta a la Tribune ; or, again, Les Coulisses adjoining the Chamber. When half an hour had
du Thedtre Annamite, at the 1889 Exhibition; Le elapsed Renouard deemed it expedient to ask his
Conservatoire ;• Sarcy Conferencier ; Les Pro- model if he wished to rest awhile. "Thank you,"
fesseurs de Cuisine; Zc Prods Zola, or Monte replied President Ingalls, "you may go on; lam
Carlo with its roulette-players. not tired." Half an hour later the same proposal

In London, where he spends half his time, met with the same answer; and so it was for three
Renouard shows us the Houses of Parliament, times more.

Drury Lane, the Salvation Army, the prisons, the " When I had finished," says Renouard, " I was
Lyceum Theatre, the music halls, the Royal quite done up and bathed in perspiration. But
Academy, &c, &C, all of which furnish him with Mr. Ingalls had remained posed for two whole
subjects for the pictures so well known and so hours, motionless, and giving not the slightest sign
much admired for their truth and vigour by readers of impatience or fatigue. Seeing, however, the
of The Graphic. He is present, of course, at the state I was in, he gave me his arm and saw me
Queen's Jubilee ; he depicts a distribution of prizes out, not even asking to look at his portrait."
by the Dean of Westmin-
ster, the winding of the

gether unforgetable.' ^ ^ ^^^^

Rome next attracts him "~^2q^^fiE3§SBit^.l
during Holy Week: then _ ■ ■ ^"^i^p^SsBJm^^

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in Congress time, pro- ^..^^^rafe^^iMB^l '1

ducing a collection of '^^li^M^if^B^^^SjS^SKBf^
political portraits and

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and humour and true jjjBMB^n^'
to the life. Note his 1;'&iBL^4
Committee of Afpropria- ./; 'fWvV.^Ki 7

Hons, his Com mi I lee oj fff/BmianUS^ '"&t '' aB jSP^SJ*

Ways and Means, and his Jv/mRHi//BHHnHH jjfe^w^^-*ZZ

Stenographer, trot forgetting r/'Tttm^lflluP(trKmknrrrM'TjBry
his portraits of Mr. Carlisle ^B^;ffV^EMrm^\@SE>fw
President of the Chamber rsSlB VWrfffPlli \l^Biffll

of Deputies, and Mr. ;; IflflffjP

Ingalls, President of the ^^¥^t ■
Senate. A propos of the -/S^|^^Nrwi5Vi' ■

last-named portrait,

Renouard tells in his own "at the national gallery" by taul renouard

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