Possible Clues:

• In a good position
• Well-to-do
• Enjoying an advantageous position
• Policeman grabbing one thug's head at fair is in a good place
• Like a model well-placed financially?
• Descriptions of attractive model that's well placed
• Prosperous like Mona Lisa while modeling?
• The cheery artist's model was...
• Loaded
• Financially secure, acting and looking like model?