Complete and unabridged, with 5 full-page plates by Raden Saleh, Józef Chelmonski and Jozef Israëls. Art students in Paris - the ateliers, the models, the salon and the ones who go home. Castaigne was an illustrator who had lived that life and drew the book as well as writing it. This edition is bound with five plates of painting by Degas, Chelmonski, Turner and Israëls, and includes fifty illustrations restored and coloured for this volume.

Jules André Castaigne (1861-1929) was a French painter and illustrator who worked extensively for American magazines and lived for years in New York. He illustrated Twain and Bourget among others and wrote and illustrated fiction of his own. His works include Fata Morgana.