The painter Pierre Bernier becomes famous thanks to the portrait "The Naked Woman" which represents his model, the seductive Lolette. The very evening of his triumph at the Salon des Expositions, he decides to marry her. But, having become rich and famous, he soon falls in love with the Princess of Chaban and abandons the woman to whom he owes his success.—Ulf Kjell Gür

In the Latin Quarter of Paris lives Lolette, who is known throughout the artists' colony as the handsomest girl in Paris. In spite of the fact that her services as a model are sought after by the leading painters and sculptors of the city, she poses only for Armand Bouchard, a mediocre painter who befriended her when she was left a penniless orphan several years before. Under Bouchard's humble roof she lives the life of the Parisian studio dweller, happy and contented, the idol of her benefactor. Pierre Bernier, a close friend of Bouchard's and an artist of unusual promise, has seen a number of his best ideas fail in practice because of his lack of a model in whose makeup both beauty and intelligence were combined in goodly measure, and finally he succeeds in persuading Bouchard to consent to his employing Lolette. During the days when his masterpiece is in the making, a passionate love affair springs up between him and his pretty model. Then marriage quickly follows. When his picture wins the grand prize at the Salon and is sold to a connoisseur for a fancy price, the two establish themselves in a fine house in a fashionable part of the city. Poor Bouchard is soon forgotten. As his prosperity increases, Pierre becomes more and more ashamed of his wife's humble origin and less and less enthralled by her charms. Later he becomes entangled in a love affair with the Princess Dupont, a dilettante in the realm of art and a woman of great wealth and established social position. Lolette suspects, and when finally she surprises the pair alone during the progress of a ball which the artist is giving in honor of a notable success he has recently achieved, she is certain that she has lost her husband's love. In desperation she goes to the aged prince, her rival's husband, and begs him to interfere. He refuses, telling the girl that arrangements for a separation between him and his wife are already under way and that he has no further interest in what she does. She then decides to appeal directly to the woman herself. For a moment the Princess's worldly heart is touched and she promises to break with Pierre. Her good resolution, however, is short-lived, and it is not long before Lolette's husband is again enmeshed in the fancied skeins of infatuation and intrigue. Lolette again appeals to the better nature of her rival, this time without the slightest success. Announcing her intention of securing a divorce, she hurries home, and that evening Pierre finds her lying half-dead on the floor, the butt of a revolver clasped tightly in her hand. Brought to their senses by Lolette's attempt upon her own life, both Pierre and the princess resolve to end their intimacy, and at the bedside of the wounded woman, both promise her to make amends. The woman keeps her word, but the husband, although making an effort to appear once more devoted to his wife, soon betrays his innate unworthiness. Heartbroken, Lolette sends him away, and when she has sufficiently recovered from her wound to leave her bed, we find her slowly making her way back to the old studio in the Latin Quarter, tenderly led by the faithful Bouchard.—Moving Picture World synopsis