Show inside of parisian art paris has lately been amused by a suit brought by mine mme brach who gave up the stage for sculpture she has sued to prevent a publisher from sell ing copies of statuettes which she her self made and owned in the trial it al was asserted by the defense that mme j brach had bought the statuettes from I 1 a sculptor named ricardo but had not bought the right of copying them she had paid 30 for one and 40 tor for the other and the only privilege that went with the sale was the right to in sign her name to them it was also asserted in the suit that a popular 4 statuette which the state had bought for the louvre had been made by t mine mme brach in the same way way she had paid aicardo to do it for her and let her win the glory the models sat for mine mme brach who worked busily with her clay but behind a curtain M rl III i cardo was as busy at work and to much better purpose ricardo in the i slang of paris was a ghost of which genus there are many who help ladles to make pictures statues and novels |