Drawing on the notes of the American painter Edouard Cucuel, Morrow describes the life of art students in fin-de-siècle Paris. The book visits studios and the École des Beaux-Arts, the scramble to take pictures to the Salon, the Boulevard Saint-Michel, the Café Procope and the Soleil d’Or, the Moulin de la Galette and Montmartre at night, and the riotous Four Arts ball.
A vivid period guide to the Paris of the student painter, without the polish of the tourist books. Download the free EPUB.