Gertrude Stein's salon and your second syllabus

Here's a photograph of the room where Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas held their famous salon at 27 Rue de Fleurus in Paris:

At the top of the photograph, near the middle, you can see the portrait of Gertrude Stein that Picasso painted in 1906-06, reproduced below:

And here's how art critic James R. Mellow described the Stein & Toklas salon in a 1968 article: "On a typical Saturday evening [in the early years of the twentieth century] one would have found Gertrude Stein at her post in the atelier, garbed in brown corduroy, sitting in a high-backed Renaissance chair, her legs dangling, next to the big cast-iron stove that heated the chilly room. A few feet away, one could hear [Stein's brother] Leo expounding to a group of visitors, his views on modern art. Among the crowd of Hungarian painters, French intellectuals, English aristocrats and German students, one might pick out the figures of Picasso and his mistress, Fernande Olivier... The man with the reddish beard and spectacles, looking like a German professor, would be Matisse. Next to him might be the poet Guillaume Apollinaire and his clinging friend, the painter Marie Laurencin. The tall figure would be that of Georges Braque, whose superior stature among the smaller cubists made him the official hanger- of-pictures in the atelier. In the American contingent, the familiars would be the painters Patrick Henry Bruce and Alfred Maurer, both of them early advocates of the modernist vision and both, at the same time, followers of Matisse. It was Alfred, as Gertrude recalled, who held up lighted matches so visitors could see that the Cézannes were, indeed, finished paintings because they were framed." (From "The Stein Salon Was The First Museum of Modern Art")