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Updated: June 26, 2025
'Naudet, as I live! We were just talking about you. Naudet, very correctly dressed, without a speck of mud on him, despite the horrible weather, bowed and came in with the reverential politeness of a man of society entering a church. 'Very pleased feel flattered, indeed, dear master. And you only spoke well of me, I'm sure of it. 'Not at all, Naudet, not at all, said Bongrand, in a quiet tone.
'Good-day, dear master, said Naudet, who had drawn near. 'So you have come, like everybody else, to see my Fagerolles, eh? He no longer treated Bongrand in the wheedling, respectful manner of yore. And he spoke of Fagerolles as of a painter belonging to him, of a workman to whom he paid wages, and whom he often scolded.
The servant was now handing round the undercut. They ate, and emptied the decanters; but their bitterness was so great that the best things were offered without being tasted, which distressed the master and mistress of the house. 'Mushrooms, eh? the sculptor ended by repeating. 'No, thanks. And he added: 'The funny part of it all is, that Naudet is suing Fagerolles.
'We were saying that your manner of trading was giving us a nice generation of artists tricksters crossed with dishonest business men. Naudet smiled, without losing his composure. 'The remark is harsh, but so charming! Never mind, never mind, dear master, nothing that you say offends me. And, dropping into ecstasy before the picture of the two little women at needlework: 'Ah!
No, no; the famous Naudet had the appearance of a nobleman, with a fancy-pattern jacket, a diamond pin in his scarf, and patent-leather boots; he was well pomaded and brushed, and lived in fine style, with a livery-stable carriage by the month, a stall at the opera, and his particular table at Bignon's. And he showed himself wherever it was the correct thing to be seen.
Naudet, who, after launching him, duly turned his success to profit in a methodical fashion, never let one of his pictures go for less than twenty, thirty, forty thousand francs. Orders would have fallen on the painter's shoulders as thick as hail, if he had not affected the disdain, the weariness of the man whose slightest sketches are fought for.
It was highly amusing to hear him speak of the famous Naudet, full of disdain for the millions turned over by that speculator, 'millions that would some day fall upon his nose, said Malgras.
At this stage of the conversation Bongrand, very jocular by nature, and with a good deal of the mummer about him, began to enact the scene. Enter Naudet in Fagerolles' studio. "You've real genius, my dear fellow. Your last picture is sold, then? For how much?" "For five hundred francs." "But you must be mad; it was worth twelve hundred. And this one which you have by you how much?"
In the character of kings, he scarcely now appears but to personate tyrants. He is very cold, and speaks through his nose like a Capuchin friar, which has gained him the appellation of the Reverend Father NAUDET. First parts or principal lovers, in Tragedy. TALMA, and LAFOND.
With the cheese, however, when they had tasted some burgundy, a sharp little growth, of which the young couple had ordered a cask out of the profits of Sandoz's first novel, their voices rose to a higher key, and they all grew animated. 'So you have made an arrangement with Naudet, eh? asked Mahoudeau, whose bony cheeks seemed to have grown yet more hollow.
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