Two very elegantly dressed ladies stroll down the street, while shopping.
One of them reads a note, presumably from a courting gentleman to
the other. To which she gives glaring advice, "If I were you,
courted by a man who doesn't even have a decoration at his age, well
I wouldn't even answer!" Her comments reflect her snobbish aspirations
socially.
"The years around the turn of the century in Paris were the
great periods of the 'artist-reporter' those painters who found
their inspiration in the events of every-day life. One of the very
greatest of these was Steinlen. With an eye for movement and gesture,
with the ability to translate the scenes of the cafes, bars and
street corners into pictorial composition, in his drawings he created
a pattern of expressive shape, swift shading and telling details
of facial expression which is redolent with the whole atmosphere
of the period" (Weston
No.5 1984, 28)
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