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FINE ARTS IN 1890. 



the best of the works shown were F. P. Vinton's 

 " Portrait of Mine. V.," Henry Bacon's "A Cor- 

 sican Bandit," Julian Story's "Portrait of my 

 Father," Charles S. Pearce's " A Widow," Frank 

 C. Penfold's " A Fine Evening," Walter McEw- 

 en's "The Absent One," James L. Stewart's 

 " Spring Flowers," Ogden Wood's " Salt Mead- 

 ows of Morseline," James HI. Whistler's "Noc- 

 turne in Blue and Silver," Charles H. Davis's 

 " The Stream," D. F. Boyden's " End of a Fine 

 Day," Walter Gay's "Young Girl with Gera- 

 niums," and William Lee's " Promenade in the 

 Park." 



Paris : Soci6t Nationale. The exhibition 

 of the new society (May 15 to June 30) com- 

 prised 1,409 numbers. No limit was set to the 

 number of works sent by each artist, and for- 

 eigners as well as Frenchmen were invited to 

 contribute. Neither medals nor rewards were 

 given. The members will consist of : Founda- 

 tion members ; societaries, who will join on in- 

 vitation ; and associates, artists whose works are 

 adjudged worthy of admission by an assembly of 

 members. 



Meissonier's " Octobre, 1806 " represents another 

 episode of the Napoleonic era for which the paint- 

 er has done so much the Battle of Jena. The 

 Emperor, in his gray coat and on a white horse, 

 surveys from a small rise of ground the opera- 

 tions of a division of cuirassiers advancing to 

 the plains beyond. Behind him is a group of 

 officers in brilliant uniforms, and in front three 

 guides in red dolmans keep watch, rifle in hand. 

 All of the painter's peculiar qualities precision 

 in drawing, technical skill, and exquisite finish of 

 details are exhibited in this work, though the 

 figure of Napoleon is somewhat heavy. 



Puvis de Chavannes occupied the place of honor 

 at the end of the principal gallery with a vast 

 decoration for the staircase of the new museum 

 at Rouen, called " Inter artes et naturem." Fig- 

 ures are grouped in an orchard, some drawing 

 and some studying fragments of broken statues. 

 In the background is seen the city of Rouen, 

 with the cathedral and the church of St. Ouen 

 well defined against the sky. 



Leon Lhermitte contributed a large panel, des- 

 tined for the decoration of one of the halls of 

 the Commissions of the Faculty of Science, en- 

 titled " Sainte-Claire Deville," a chemist in his 

 laboratory surrounded by his pupils. He exhib- 

 ited also three exquisite cabinet pictures, " Repos 

 des moissonneurs," " La soif," and " Les foins." 



Carolus-Duran exhibited several powerful por- 

 traits, four of them full-length women, and a 

 fine study of the nude, a woman with red hair, 

 seated, back view, on a red cushion before a red 

 hanging which brings her figure into relief. 



Roll contributed portraits of " Jeanne Had- 

 ing " and of " Coquelin Cadet " and pictures en- 

 titled " L'Enfant avec sa bonne," " Etude sur 

 la Seine en 1889," and " Mer funebre." 



Dagnan-Bouveret showed " Cimetiere de Sidi 

 Kebir," " Bords de riviere," and a portrait. Le- 

 rolle, two large decorative pictures intended for 

 a church, " Saint-Martin donne la moitie de son 

 manteau a un pauvre," and "Jesus-Christ apparait 

 a Saint-Martin." Gervex exhibited the editorial 

 room of the " Rcpublique Francaise " newspaper, 

 with the chief editors grouped around a table, 

 some seated, and the rest standing. Beraud has 



grouped the crowd around a gaming table at 

 Monte Carlo in his " Rien ne va plus ! " 



Paris: Miscellaneous. The sale of the 

 atelier and collection of the late Jules Dupre, in 

 Paris, Jan. 30, realized 208,760 francs. Among 

 pictures and studies by the artist were : " La 

 rentree a la ferme," 20,000 francs ; " Le repos 

 des moissonneurs," 4,100 ; " Les trois arbres," 

 8,000 ; " Un moulin au Crotoy," 5,250 ; " Bords 

 de riviere le Soir," 10,400 ; "Sous bois," 10,100; 

 " Pleine mer," 5,500. Of his private collection, 

 Corot's " Le concert " was bought by the Due 

 d'Aumale for 40,000 francs, and " Crepuscule," 

 8,100; Gericault, "Portrait de Jamar," 6,000. 



The collection of the late Don Sebastian de 

 Borbon y Braganza, owned by the Duke de Durcal, 

 which found ho buyers in New York last year, 

 was sold in Paris, Feb. 3, at an aggregate of 

 111,710 francs. The best prices obtained were: 

 Carreno de Miranda, "Portrait of Charles II of 

 Spain," 15,200 francs; Jan van Eyck, "Adora- 

 tion of the Magi," 17,000; Holbein,' "Portrait of 

 Jeanne la Folle," 7,300 ; Quentin Matsys, " Sav- 

 ior of the World," 17,100; Teniers, "Village 

 Fete," 5,000. The principal picture, Murillo's 

 " Virgin of Mount Carmel," was bid in at 60,000. 



The sale of the studio effects of the late Ferdi- 

 nand Heilbuth, at Paris, in May, produced 227,- 

 226 francs. The artist bequeathed all his prop- 

 erty to the Societe des Artistes Frangais. Among 

 the best prices obtained for pictures were : " Five 

 o'Clock Tea," 8,200 francs ; " Le passage," 8,050 ; 

 " La margelle," 6,200 ; " Au jardin," 6,000 ; " Le 

 passeur a Neuilly," 6,000 ; " Flours des Champs," 

 5,000; "Le ponton de Neuilly," 4,550. Corot's 

 " Paysage au bord de la mer " 'brought 5,850. 



The sale of the Rothan collection, held in 

 Paris, May 29-31, produced 1,093,090 francs. 

 Among the best prices obtained were : Lucas 

 Cranach, " Portrait of Luther," 5,600 francs. Al- 

 bert Cuyp, " Marine," 8,500. Antony Vandyke, 

 " La ronde des amours," 5,600. Frans Hals, 

 "Femme au gant," 38,000; "L'Homme au man- 

 teau gris," 6,500; "Les buveurs," 5,100. Jor- 

 daens, " Portrait d'un syndic," 58,000. A. van 

 der Neer, " L'Hiver en Hollande," 8,800. A. van 

 Ostade, "Le Flamand grivois," 8,500. Pala- 

 medes. " Portrait," 15,500. Porbus, the younger, 

 " Marie de Medicis," 17,200. J. Ruysd'ael, " Le 

 Champ de Ble," 24.000 ; " L'Hiver," 8,000 ; " Vue 

 de Hollande," 7,500. S. Ruysdael, " Dordrecht," 

 8,000. Teniers, the younger, "Le fumeur," 11,- 

 500. Boucher, " La musique," 24,500 ; " Le Pein- 

 ture," 24,500; "Le moulin," 12,100. Canaletto, 

 "Le palais des doges," 15,000. Guardi, "La 

 pazetta, Venice," 18,000. 



The sale of the Ernest May collection, Paris, 

 in June, brought 500,060 francs in the aggre- 

 gate. Among the best prices obtained were: 

 Corot, " La femme du pecheur," 13,700 francs ; 

 " La Rochelle," 12,100 ; " Le Pont Saint-Auge a 

 Rome," 21,100; "Grand canal a Venise," 10,- 

 200; "L'Entree du village," 16,500; Le lac de 

 Geneve," 10,000. Millet, pastel, " Le Vigne- 

 ron," 17,600; "Berger et son troupeau," 29,000; 

 "La fin de la journee," 25,500; "La meridi- 

 enne," 11,300. 



The sale of the collection of Prosper Crabbe, of 

 Brussels, in Paris, June 12, produced 1,589,900 

 francs. Among the highest prices obtained were : 

 Corot, "Le matin," 63,000 francs; "Le soir," 



