There was a greater division of labour amongst those who followed Cham, since one chose "little women" as a speciality, another the theatre, and another high-life. Assisted by photography, _Nadar_ turned again to portraiture, which had been neglected since Daumier, and enjoyed a great success with his series "Les Contemporains de Nadar." _Marcellin_ is the first who spread over his sketches from the world of fashions and the theatre all the _chic_ and fashionable glitter which lives in the novels of those years. He is the chronicler of the great world, of balls and _soirées_; he shows the opera and the _Théâtre des Italiens_, tells of hunting and racing, attends the drives in the Corso, and at the call of fashion promptly deserts the stones of Paris to look about him in châteaux and country-houses, seaside haunts in France, and the little watering-places of Germany, where the gaming-tables formed at that time the rendezvous of well-bred Paris. Baden-Baden, where all the lions of the day, the politicians and the artists and all the beauties of the Paris salons, met together in July, offered the draughtsman a specially wide field for studies of fashion and _chic_. Here began the series "Histoires des variations de la mode depuis le XVI siècle jusqu'à nos jours." In a place where all classes of society, the great world and the _demi-monde_, came into contact, Marcellin could not avoid the latter, but even when he verged on this province he always knew how to maintain a correct and distinguished bearing. He was peculiarly the draughtsman of "society," of that brilliant, pleasure-loving, tainted, and yet refined society of the Second Empire which turned Paris into a great ball-room. [Illustration: _Quantin, Paris._ GUYS. STUDY OF A WOMAN.]