33. My favourite Parisian tart, who used to adorn the shop window of the press photograph agency, Roger-Viollet, at 6 Rue de Seine, but sadly, no more.
And in my appalling French I once asked if she was for sale. The receptionist told me that the painter in the photograph is Moïse Kisling, but the model has only ever been identified as 'a model', and that despite Kisling's wife, Renee, being an accomplished photographer in her own right, this photo was taken by Gaston Paris.
Unfortunately, though, she couldn't be bought. |