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FINE ARTS IN 1890. 



the roads represented at the meeting on the 15th 

 had met and appointed advisory committees and 

 given their assent to the general plan. The ef- 

 fect upon the market of this action was not im- 

 portant and the speculation was tame until toward 

 the close of the month. Then the directors of the 

 Lake Shore, Michigan Central, and New York 

 Central, declared extra dividends, which caused 

 an advance in these properties. A disposition 

 on the part of the bears to close out their con- 

 tracts before the end of the year stimulated a 

 general rise and easy money, the suspension of 

 Bateman & Co. and buying of stocks for their 

 account made the market very strong during 

 the remaining days of the month. 



Total sales of stocks at the New York Stock 

 Exchange for the year 1890 were 71,282,885 

 shares, against 72,014,600 in 1889, 65,179,200 in 

 1888, and 84,914,616 in 1887. The transactions 

 in Government bonds in 1890 were $2,625,500, 

 and in railroad and miscellaneous bonds $401,- 

 829,220. 



The following table shows the prices of lead- 

 ing stocks at the beginning of the years 1889, 

 1890, and 1891 : 



The following shows the highest and lowest 

 prices of a few of the speculative stocks in 1889 

 and 1890: 



FINE ARTS IN 1890. Under this title are 

 treated the principal art events of the past year, 

 ending with December, 1890, including especially 

 the great exhibitions in Europe and the United 

 States, sales and acquisitions of works of art, and 

 erection of public statues and monuments. 



Paris : Salon. The exhibition of the Societe 

 des Artistes Francais, in the Palais de 1'Indus- 

 trie, was notable for the absence of several paint- 

 ers of distinction who have heretofore contrib- 

 uted greatly to its success. These artists, among 

 whom are Meissonier, Carolus-Duran, Puvis de 

 Chavannes, Delaunay, Gervex, Duez, Dagnan- 

 Bouveret, Roll, Gustave Morot, and Cazin, with- 

 drew from the Societe on account of some dis- 

 satisfaction with the management, and estab- 

 lished the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 

 which held its first exhibition this year in the 

 Pavilion des Beaux-Arts in the Champ de Mars, 

 left standing since the Exposition Universelle 

 of last year. Though the members of the new 

 society were allowed to send more pictures than 

 in the official Salon, the paintings were few com- 

 pared with the regular exhibition, but they were 

 mostly of a high order of merit, so that the dis- 

 affection considerably impoverished the section 

 of painting in the Palais de 1'Industrie. 



The Salon (May 2 to June 30) comprised 5,301 

 numbers, classified as follows : Paintings, 2,480 ; 

 cartoons, water colors, pastels, miniatures, porce- 

 lain pictures, etc., 952; sculptures, 1,196; en- 

 graving in medals and precious stones, 62 ; ar- 

 chitecture, 150; engraving and lithography, 461. 



Section of painting : Medal of honor awarded 

 to Francois Louis Francais, who received 224 

 votes to 24 for Benjamin-Constant, 22 for Henri 

 Harpignies, 17 for Frangois Flameng, 5 for Henri 

 Doucet, and 3 for Albert Maignan. First-class 

 medal : Alfred Paul Marie de Richemont. Sec- 

 ond-class medals : Maurice Laliepvre, Henri Ra- 

 chou, Hippolyte Fournier, Evariste Carpentier, 

 Maurice Bompard, Joseph Ferdinand Gueldry, 

 P. Franc. Lamy, Auguste Charles Mengin, Ed- 

 mond Yarz, Alphonse Chigot, Armand Beau- 

 vais, Aymar Pezant, Albert Lambert, and Paulin 

 Bertrand. Third-class medals: Eugene Clary, 

 Michel Lancon, Paul Peel, Mme. Leroy d'Eti- 

 olles, Cristobal Rojas, Leon Charles Massaux, 

 Francois Nardi, Jan van Beers, J. Rouffet, Cle- 

 ment Quinton. Claude Bourgonnier, Edmund 

 Wyly G-rier, William Holt Yates Titcombe, Si- 

 gisbert Bosch-Reitz, Lucien Simond, Julius L. 

 Stewart, Frederick Melville Du Mond, Frederick 

 Humbert, Albert Lynch, Jules Charles Boquet, 

 Paul Hippolyte Flandrin, John S. Sargent, Ul- 

 piano Checa, Herman Jean Richir, Adolphe 

 Grison, Paul Buffet. 



Section of sculpture : No medal of honor 

 awarded. First-class medals: Felix Maurice 

 Charpentier, Denys Puech. Second-class med- 

 als: Henri Desire Ganquie, Gabriel Edouard 

 Pech, Emmanuel Dolivet, Louis Dominique Ma- 

 thet, Pierre Rambaud, Honore Icard, Georges 

 Tonnelier, Alfred Borrel. Third-class medals: 

 Jules Reriaudot, Henri Vidal, Antonio Teixeira- 

 Lopes, Antonin Larroux, Raoul Larche, Georges 

 Recipon, Athanase Fosse, Antoine Clair Fores- 

 tier, Barthelerny Caniez, Ernest Dagonet. 



Section of engraving: Medal of honor, Fre- 

 deric Laguillermie. First-class medal : Gustave 

 Levy (line). Second-class medal : Augustin Fe- 

 lix Milius (etching). Third-class medals: Jean 

 Tinayre (wood), Louis Joseph Fuchs (litho- 

 graph), Charles Giroux (etching), Georges Bau- 

 douin (wood), Paul Alexandre Hermans (litho- 

 graph). Maximilien Rapine (line), Charles Ber- 

 nard de Billy (etching), Mile. Marguerite Jacob 



