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Identifier: howtoshowpictur00hurl (find matches)
Title: How to show pictures to children
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May), 1863-1924
Subjects: Art -- Study and teaching
Publisher: Boston, New York Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image:
the subject was within the experience of the
audience. The girl of the picture has sold out her
stock and is counting over her earnings, while the boy,
who is but just setting forth, looks on with generous
pleasure in her success. It is a charming tale of cheer-
ful industry and good fellowship. We chose a boy
and girl of the same relative ages, who were much
in earnest to do their parts well. An empty waste-
basket was rather an inadequate representation of
the young merchants large stock of Andalusian
grapes, but it was of the proper size and shape for the
pose, and happily the children's imagination was
equal to the supply of this trifling deficiency.
Madame Le Brun and her Daughter requires no
accessories, and of course we did not disrobe our
model like the lady of the picture. The photograph
brought forth the story of another idolized artists
daughter, the painter this time being a charming
Frenchwoman. A picture or a story illustrating
family love is always welcomed by the teacher as an
opportunity to impress an obvious lesson. For this
Text Appearing After Image:
Fr. Hanfstaengl, John Andrew & Son, Sc.

LAVINIA
Berlin Gallery

THE GAME OF PICTURE-POSING 49

group we arranged a teacher with an affectionate
little girl who was only too pleased to embrace the
object of her affection. The subject is not quite so
easy as it looks: the lady must be seated at a height
to require the child while standing to reach up a bit
to bring her head to the mother's chin. The little arm
must fall within the bend of the larger arm, to form a
parallel curve. When the group is arranged the out-
line should describe the form of a pyramid.
Rubens's Sons is a lovely presentation of brotherly
companionship. When this picture was put up, I
explained the rich velvet and satin costumes as the
Flemish court dress of the seventeenth century. The
artist was court painter to the Archduke Albert and
Isabella, and was in high favor with royalties. So he
gave his eldest son the name of his patron, and both
boys enjoyed all the advantages of his wealth and
station. But fine clothes did not se

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