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ILLUSTRATORS OF MONTMARTRE

appear in "Le Rire", and charm us with their quaint breadth and simplicity. of treatment. Nothing in this way could be better than the old "concièrge" and his dumpy wife, who are painting a cast of the "Venus of Milo" with canary yellow, and decide that it is much prettier like that, and much less indecent.

For the exhibition of "La Demi Douzaine," the little group of artists among whom he exhibits his marine work, Huard has done an excellent poster.