Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1913 — NOTED GIRL MODEL [ARTICLE]

NOTED GIRL MODEL

Face Made Famous by Greuze, Whose Name She Disgraced. Famous Artist's Immortalization of Hie Wife’s Features Can Be Seen at the Great Galleries in U. 8. and Europe. London.—Another ideal has been shattered. The babylike face that is known the world over as the fabulously expensive and miraculous creation of the famous artist Greuze, was that of a commca little girl who, after marrying the artist, stole his money and disgraced his name. Greuze's immortalization of this face can be seen in almost any of the great galleries In! Europe or America. ? John Rivers has shocked London by robbing this wonderful Greuze face, which adorns the royal palaces, the National and other picture galleries, of all its historic virtue. In a book just, published Mr. Rivers thus describes one of the most fascinating types of feminine humanity, for which American and European collectors today -bid against each other with reckless enthusiasm: “All the world knows her, and no one who has ever seen her can ever forget the sweet sting of her beauty. Her eyes are like the fish pools of Heshbon, and many a man has died happy for the kiss of a mouth such as hers. The noonday sunlight seems to have got entangled in her hair, and young men dream o’ nights of her warm and palpitating throat. And, if with innocent effrontery, she .delights in showing to the best advantage her dimpled arms, her firm and delicate hands, and all the fresh graces of her rounded form, it is because she has just awakened to the life emotional; it is because her child’s heart—the wide and troubled eyes confess it—has suddenly been thrilled and a little frightened by the eternal, delightful and foolish craving, for something to love; and so, she lavishes the treasures of her heart on the pet lamb she holds in her arms, or the doves she fondly presses to her breast. “She was admirably proportioned. Neither too short not too tall, which Is rare among women, who, for the most part seem either to have just failed to reach, or to have inadvertently exceeded. the exact stature that nature meant them to attain. Saucy, finpetUbUS, with the manners of a hoyden, her beauty was dainty rather than distinguished; a fresh color, a provocative nose, with slightly dilated nostrils; strange humid, alluring eyes; beautiful teeth; a

full red mouth, which seemed to give a subtle and wonderful meaning to the lightest word she uttered; and glorious auburn hair, gleaming like burnished gold as it caught and held the sunlight. The smooth, arched brow, the kindling dilated nostrils, the moist lips curved like Cupid’s brow—her every feature, in short —announced a hasty, passionate and rather voluptuous nature.” The M-ographer of Greuze then ruthlessly explains that this fascinating type was Mlle. Anne Gabrielle Babuti, the daughter of a bookseller in the Qua! del Augustins, who was more interested Ln her father’s customers than in her father’s books. She was

attracted by the shabby young artist Greuze and, because he was too poor or too shy, herself proposed marriage. After a few years of happy Bohemlanism she became a spendthrift and eventually a wanton, who neglected her children, stole jher husband’s monef and then dragged his name in the mire. Sad as the story may be, her hus.band’s conception of what she might have been will live long after her own lack of charactor is forgotten. As Hippocrates wrote, many centuries before Greuze met his bewitching model in her father’s Paris book store, “Arelonga, vita brevis” (Art is long, lifeis short).