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FINE ARTS IN 1888. (PARIS.) 



dividends on the Vanderbilt specialties, and 

 by a farther improvement in the Western rail- 

 road situation ; but it was a little irregular 

 after Wednesday in consequence of active 

 money, although the tone was generally strong 

 to the close. Total sales of all stocks for the 

 year 1888 were 65,179,206 shares against 85,- 

 291,028 in 1887; 100,802,050 in 1886; 93,184,- 

 478 in 1885; 95,416,368 in 1884; 96,037,905 

 in 1883; 113,720,665 in 1882; 113,392,685 in 

 1881 ; and 97,919,099 in 1880. The transac- 

 tions in Government bonds at the New York 

 Stock Exchange in 1888 were $6,573,700, and 

 in railroad and miscellaneous bonds, $345,214,- 

 057. The following table shows quotations of 

 leading stocks at the beginning of January, 

 1887, 1888, and 1889: 



The following table shows the highest and 

 lowest prices of a few of the speculative stocks 

 in 1888 and the highest in 1887 : 



1887. 



FIXE ARTS IN 1888. Under this title are 

 treated the principal art events of the past 

 year, ending with December, 1888, including 

 especially the great exhibitions in Europe and 

 the United States, the sales and acquisitions of 

 works of art, and the erection of public statues 

 and monuments. 



Paris: Salon. The exhibition (May 1 to June 

 30) comprised 5,523 numbers (selected from 

 7,640 presented), classified as follows: Paint- 

 ings, 2,586; cartoons, water- colors, pastels, 

 porcelain pictures, etc., 1,119 sculpture, 1,059 ; 

 engraving in medals and precious stones, 57; 

 architecture, 180; engraving, 522. 



Section of painting : Medal of lionor awarded 

 to Edouard Detaille by 108 votes against 96 to 

 Benjamin-Constant. First-class medals: Paul 

 Louis Delance, Nils Forsberg. Second-class 

 medals : Gustave Edouard Le Senechal, Gaston 

 Latouche, Auguste Joseph Trupheme, Nicolas 

 Berthon, Aim6 Perret, Louis Victor Watelin, 

 Louis Le Poittevin, Arsene Kivey, Paul Leroy, 

 Auguste Flameng, Georges Callot, Maurice 

 Jeannin. Third- class medals: Edouard Grand- 

 jean, Jean Brunet, Joseph Aubert, Abel Boyer, 

 Leon Boudot, Emile Isenbart, Amand Laroche, 

 Leon Richet, Franc Lamy, Alexis Vollon, Al- 

 fred Smith, Daniel Ridgway Knight, Theophile 

 Henri Decanis, Walter Gay, Jacques Louis 

 Odier, Guignon, Adrien Jourdeuil, William 

 Henry Howe, Paul Lecomte, Eugene Dauphin, 

 Etienne Tournes, Paul Schmitt, J. Gari Melch- 

 ers, John La very, Eugene Laurent Vail, Michel 

 Matius, Henry Mosler, Aymar Pezant, Francois 

 Salle, Gotthardt Kuehl, Karl Cartier, Johannes 

 Grimelund, Mile. Maximilienne Guyon. 



Section of sculpture : Medal of honor award- 

 ed to Jean Turcan, by 98 out of 168 votes. No 

 first-class medal awarded. Second-class med- 

 als: Henri Louis Levasseur, Eugene Quinton, 

 Camille Lefevre, Louis Joseph Enderlin, Joseph 

 Gardet, Pierre Barbaroux. Third-class medals : 

 Louis Dominique Mathet, Louis Auguste Bara- 

 lis, Leon Kinsburger, Ringel d'lllzach, Hippol- 

 yte Peyrol, Leon Pilet, Charles Jacquot, Louis 

 Hoi week, Eugene Robert, Paul Francois Chop- 

 pin, Frangois Pompon, Christian Erickson. 



Section of engraving : Medal of honor award- 

 ed to Edmond Hedouin. by 99 votes against 

 60 to Achille Jacquet. No first - class medal 

 awarded. Second-class medals: Leon Boisson 

 (line engraving), Auguste Hilaire Laveille 

 (wood). Third-class medals: Messrs. Eugene 

 Fornet, Ricardo de los Rios, Paul Emile Leter- 

 rier, Claude Faivre, and Mine. Marie Louveau- 

 Rouveyre (etching) ; Charles Theodore Deblois 

 (line) ; Hippolyte Constant Dutheil, Theodore 

 Delangle, Jean Baptiste Guillaume, Claude 

 Faivre (wood) ; Georges William Thornley, 

 Hippolyte Fauchon (lithography). 



Section of architecture : Medal of honor 

 awarded to Henri Adolphe Deglane, unani- 

 mously. First-class medal : Charles Louis Gi- 

 rault. Second-class medals : Jean Hardion, 

 Gabriel Rupricht-Robert, Jean Breasson, Gas- 

 ton Redon, Charles Georges Roussi. Third- 

 class medals: Emile Jay, Arsene Pierre La- 

 fargue, Eugene Rigault, Paul Laffollye, Edou- 

 ard Michel Lewicki, Augustin Salleron. 



Edouard Detaille, to whom was awarded the 

 medal of honor, exhibited, an enormous land- 

 scape crowded with figures, entitled "Le Reve," 

 which must rank as his masterpiece. It repre- 



