DOI Heft:
No.129 (December, 1901)
DOI Artikel:Holland, Clive: Lady art student's life in Paris
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19880#0243
Lady Art Students in Paris
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work, cook, and at the
same time take art so
seriously. How pretty
some of these little ap-
partements are, and how
interesting! Few women
are really untidy by
natural inclination, and a
girl's studio in Paris is
usually a perfection of
tidiness, compared with
those of most men. In
hers, little nicknacks grace
the narrow shelf which
in his is consecrated to
tobacco jar, charred
BBHhH pipes, tubes of paint, a
galley-pot of brushes soak-
a typical artists' depot in from a photograph 7 .
the latin quarter by clive Holland ing m turpentine, and
possibly a razor and
shaving brush.
goes without saying; but it is sufficiently Bohemian When she has been in the Quarter some little
for the most enterprising feminine searcher after time she will probably have emancipated herself
novelty. so far that she will even institute little functions in
If she be very independent she will eschew the the form of studio teas or musical evenings, at
pension, run on more or less dull or English lines, which her girl and even men student friends
in favour of an appartement au deuxieme, or au will gather to drink the anglais, made from a trea-
troisfeme, working upwards towards the sky above to sured store which she brought with her, or some
the seizieme, according to her worldly wealth, or friend from England has smuggled for her, and
lack of it. The lady art student who lives au discuss other people's work and Art matters in
premiere is a rara avis, or even
perhaps has yet to be dis-
covered.,./ In this little apparte-
ment, which will in most cases
be a bedroom, sitting-room and
studio all in one, with a slip
of a bathroom and kitchen, if
she can afford it, she lives a
solitary existence, varied only
by the daily visit to the school
or atelier to which she has
attached herself, the incursions
of artist friends (if she be
emancipated these will be of
both sexes); the occasional
visit to a place of amusement,
when an escort is available ;
or the equally occasional
dinner at a restaurant. When
her relatives come over they
will be astonished at her eman-
cipation, and they will often
wonder how she manages to
do most of her own house- on monday mornings
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the place blanche near the spot from a photograph
where the model market takes place by clive holland
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work, cook, and at the
same time take art so
seriously. How pretty
some of these little ap-
partements are, and how
interesting! Few women
are really untidy by
natural inclination, and a
girl's studio in Paris is
usually a perfection of
tidiness, compared with
those of most men. In
hers, little nicknacks grace
the narrow shelf which
in his is consecrated to
tobacco jar, charred
BBHhH pipes, tubes of paint, a
galley-pot of brushes soak-
a typical artists' depot in from a photograph 7 .
the latin quarter by clive Holland ing m turpentine, and
possibly a razor and
shaving brush.
goes without saying; but it is sufficiently Bohemian When she has been in the Quarter some little
for the most enterprising feminine searcher after time she will probably have emancipated herself
novelty. so far that she will even institute little functions in
If she be very independent she will eschew the the form of studio teas or musical evenings, at
pension, run on more or less dull or English lines, which her girl and even men student friends
in favour of an appartement au deuxieme, or au will gather to drink the anglais, made from a trea-
troisfeme, working upwards towards the sky above to sured store which she brought with her, or some
the seizieme, according to her worldly wealth, or friend from England has smuggled for her, and
lack of it. The lady art student who lives au discuss other people's work and Art matters in
premiere is a rara avis, or even
perhaps has yet to be dis-
covered.,./ In this little apparte-
ment, which will in most cases
be a bedroom, sitting-room and
studio all in one, with a slip
of a bathroom and kitchen, if
she can afford it, she lives a
solitary existence, varied only
by the daily visit to the school
or atelier to which she has
attached herself, the incursions
of artist friends (if she be
emancipated these will be of
both sexes); the occasional
visit to a place of amusement,
when an escort is available ;
or the equally occasional
dinner at a restaurant. When
her relatives come over they
will be astonished at her eman-
cipation, and they will often
wonder how she manages to
do most of her own house- on monday mornings
226
the place blanche near the spot from a photograph
where the model market takes place by clive holland