. Thackerayana;. he churches, theatres,eating-houses, concert-rooms, are covered with pictures; Natureitself is inclined more kindly to him, for the sky is a thousandtimes more bright and beautiful, and the sun shines for the greaterpart of the year. Add to this, incitements more selfish, but quiteas powerful: a French artist is paid very handsomely—for five PARIS SKETCH BOOK. 125 hundred a year is much where all are poor—and has a rank insociety rather above his merits than below them, being caressedby hosts and hostesses in places where titles are laughed at, anda baron is thought of no more
. Thackerayana;. he churches, theatres,eating-houses, concert-rooms, are covered with pictures; Natureitself is inclined more kindly to him, for the sky is a thousandtimes more bright and beautiful, and the sun shines for the greaterpart of the year. Add to this, incitements more selfish, but quiteas powerful: a French artist is paid very handsomely—for five PARIS SKETCH BOOK. 125 hundred a year is much where all are poor—and has a rank insociety rather above his merits than below them, being caressedby hosts and hostesses in places where titles are laughed at, anda baron is thought of no more account than a bankers clerk. The life of the young artist here is the easiest, merriest,dirtiest existence possible. He comes to Paris, probably at six-teen, from his province; his parents settle forty pounds a year onnim, and pay his master; he establishes himself in the Pays Latin,or in the new quarter of Notre Dame de Lorette (which is quitepeopled with painters); he arrives at his atelier at a tolerably. *arly hour, and labours among a score of companions as merryand poor as himself. Each gentleman has his favourite tobacco-pipe, and the pictures are painted in the midst of a cloud ofsmoke, and a din of puns and choice French slang, and a roar ofchoruses, of which no one can form an idea who has not beenpresent at such an assembly. In another paper he discoursesenthusiastically of the French school of painting as exemplified ina picture in the Exhibition by Carel Dujardin, as follows :— A horseman is riding up a hill, and giving money to a blowsybeggar-wench. O matutini rores aui<(zque salnbres ! in what a won-derful way has the artist managed to create you out of a few 126 THACKER A YANA. bladders of paint and pots of varnish. You can see the matutinaldews twinkling in the grass, and feel the fresh, salubrious airs( the breath of Nature blowing free, as the corn-law man sings)blowing free over the heath. Silvery vapours are rising up fromthe blue lowlands. You c
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