FINE ARTS IN 1896. 



(bronze group) ; Hippolyte Lcfebvrc, " Le Pardon " 

 (marble statue) and " La Dpulenr " (plaster relief) ; 

 Emmanuel Fontaine, "Fascination" (marble group); 

 Jean Marie Boucher, " Un Soir " (plaster group); 

 Henri Greber, "Le Coup de Grison" (marble 

 statue) ; Jules Dercheu, " Daphne changee en Lau- 

 rier " (plaster statue). Third-class medals : Aime 

 Jeremie Octobre, Victor Segoflin, Charles Louis 

 Picaud, Jean Baptiste Champeil, Sylvain Salieres, 

 Hippolyte P. II. Roussel, Luca Madrassi, Louis 

 Gaetan Vcber, Mile. Jeanne Itasse. 



Section of architecture: Medal of honor awarded 

 to Scellier de Gisors for his plans for the " Depot 

 central dn materiel des Postes et Telegraphes " and 

 for "Monument a 1'Amiral Coligny.'' No first- 

 class medal awarded. Second-class medals : Louis 

 Marie Henri Sortais, Boutron et Schoellkopf, Louis 

 Guillaume Delaunay, Louis Joseph Ypermann. 

 Paul Dusart, Paul Hippolyte^ Boussac, Dupont et 

 Guilbert. Third-class medals: Emile Bertone, Jules 

 Leon Chifflot, Adrien Rey, Eugene Bourdon. 



Section of engraving in medals and precious 

 stones : First-class medal : Alfred Borrel. Second- 

 class medals : Paul Charles Galbrunner, Charles 

 Philippe G. A. Fillet. 



Section of engraving and lithography : Medal of 

 honor, Henri Lefort, " Le Miracle de Saint-Marc " 

 (etching), after Tintoretto. First-class medal : An- 

 toine Dezarrois (steel). Second-class medals : 

 Georges Auguste Thevenin (wood), Albert L. P. E. A. 

 Duvivier (etching), Ludovic Alleaume (lithograph), 

 Jean Emile Buland (steel). Third-class medals : 

 Henri Eugene Bourmand (wood), Lucien Dautrey 

 (etching), Joseph Sourbier (lithograph), Arthur 

 Mayeur (steel), Camille Fonce (etching), Alfred 

 Jean Marie Broquelct (lithograph), Adolphe Crauk 

 (steel), Leon Saulles (etching), Georges Sauvage 

 (lithograph). 



Section of decorative art : Second-class medals : 

 Rene Lalique, Auguste Ledru. Third-class medals : 

 Jean Louis Bremond, Gustave Guerchet, Robert 

 Carrier-Belleuse. 



Among the canvases which attracted most atten- 

 tion was a superb allegorical composition by Fer- 

 nand Pelez, entitled " L'Humanite," representing 

 the phases of human history in the lottery of life. 

 In the middle are those who enjoy life, honestly or 

 otherwise, the two classes looking at each other 

 with mutual disdain. On the left are workmen 

 without work, old men without bread, and babes 

 without milk, and on the right is Revolt, wan and 

 somber and seeming to be meditating crime, while 

 in the background is seen Christ shrouded in mist 

 and stretching out his nail-pierced hands over all. 



Rochegrosse exhibited a canvas entitled "An- 

 goisse Ilumaine," illustrative of a somewhat similar 

 idea, but far from making the same impression. A 

 throng of sufferers of all conditions, in coats and 

 blouses, gloved hands and naked hands, white 

 cravats and no cravats, raise their arms in despair 

 toward celestial figures in the upper part of the 

 picture. 



Julian Story's " Le Laboratoire a Saint-Lazare " 

 is a scene evidently painted in all its details from 

 life. The shiver which passes over the face and 

 figure of a young woman whom a doctor is inocu- 

 lating is cleverly and faithfully depicted. The 

 sickly daylight of morning which touches the walls 

 with a mysterious illumination produces a powerful 

 effect. 



A large canvas illustrative of the, horrors of war 

 is " Les Bouches Inutilfs" of Fran9ois Tattegrain, 

 which, notwithstanding ils loathsome details, at- 

 tracted much curiosity. The scene is at the siege 

 of Chateau-Gaillard by Philippe Auguste in 1203, 

 when (lie besieged expelled the old men, women, 

 and children, whose "useless mouths" were an in- 



cumbrance without adding to the means of defense. 

 Driven back by the besiegers as a proper means of 

 bringing the town to reason, the poor wretches are 

 gathered, about a hundred of them, lame, halt, and 

 blind, in the fosse of the town, where they are forced 

 to dig out of the snow roots, dead dogs, and corpses, 

 to eke out their existence. It is a very realistic but 

 unpleasant picture. 



" Un Brave," by Henry Bacon, of Boston, repre- 

 sents a sailor with his arm in a sling, who has come 

 home with high reputation from an oversea fight. 

 He is seated in a pew in the church of his native 

 place, and causes an evident commotion among the 

 young women behind him. 



There were more American exhibits this year 

 than usual. From many offered, canvases were ac- 

 cepted from the following: Aaron Altmann, San 

 Francisco ; Henry Bacon, Boston ; William Baird, 

 Chicago ; Ellen Kendall Baker, New York : Milton 

 Bancroft, Boston ; Wilson Nesbitt Benson, Arkan- 

 sas; Henry S. Bisbing, Philadelphia; William 

 Blair Bruce, Hamilton, Canada; Ernest L. Blumen- 

 schein, Pittsburg : Frank M. Boggs, New York ; 

 Dwight Frederic Boyden, Boston ; Frederic Arthur 

 Bridgman, Alabama ; Thomas R. Congdon, New 

 York ; Edwin D. Connell, New York ; Louis Paul 

 Dessar, Indianapolis ; M. T. Dickson, St. Louis ; 

 Henry Patrick Dillon, California; William Left- 

 wich Dodge, Richmond; Mrs. Mattie Dube, Cana- 

 da ; Frank Vincent Du Mond, Rochester : Benja- 

 min Eggleston, New York ; James Wall Finn, New 

 York ; John H. Fry, United States ; Elizabeth Jane 

 Gardner, New Hampshire; Mary Shepherd Greene, 

 New York ; Joseph Greenebaum, San Francisco ; 

 Anne Lawrence Gregory, New York ; Peter Alfred' 

 Gross, Allentown ; John McClure Hamilton, Phila- 

 delphia : Hermann Hartwich, New York ; Miss 

 Daisy Haven, New York ; Miss Eudora Hereford, 

 Covington ; Howard Logan Hildebrand, United 

 States ; George Inness, United States ; Miss Anna 

 Elizabeth Klumpke, San Francisco ; Daniel Ridg- 

 way Knight, Philadelphia ; Henry L. Levy, New 

 York ; Louis Loeb, Cleveland ; William H. McEn- 

 tee, United States ; Miss Bertha Menzler, Chicago ; 

 Humphrey Moore, New York ; Mrs. Willie Betty 

 Newman, Cincinnati; William Norton, Boston; 

 Ralph C. Ott, St. Louis; Jules Pages, San Fran- 

 cisco : Charles Sprague Pearce, Boston : Charles 

 Hovey Pepper. New York ; G. A. Reid, Toronto, 

 Canada ; Frank Henry Richardson, Boston ; Or- 

 ville Hoyt Root, United States; Miss Hannah 

 Rusk, Canada ; Frank Edwin Scott, New York ; J. 

 Henry Sharp, United States ; John Smith-Lewis, 

 Philadelphia; Miss Elizabeth Stevens, Portland; 

 William Wright Stewart, Philadelphia ; Frederick 

 L. Stoddard, St. Louis : Julian Story, United 

 States ; Miss Elsie Stuart-Dodge, Boston ; Mrs. 

 Austa Sturdevant, Meadville; Henry 0. Tanner, 

 United States ; Charles Jacques Theriat, New 

 York; S. Seymour Thomas, United States; Henry 

 Stanley Todd, St. Louis ; Ernest Percival Tudor- 

 Hart, Montreal; Simon Harmon Vedder, New 

 York; William Francis Warden, New York; Ed- 

 win Lord Weeks, Boston ; Mrs. Cecilia E. Went- 

 worth, New York ; Charles Lennox Wright, Boston. 



Paris : Salon of the Champ de Mars. The 

 seventh annual exhibition of the Societc Rationale 

 des Beaux Arts (April 25 to June 30) comprised 

 2,283 numbers, classified as follow : Paintings, 

 1,265: designs, etc., 392 ; sculpture, 151 ; engraving, 

 137; art objects, 277; architecture, 61. 



The officers are : President, Puvis de Chavannes. 

 Vicc-Presidents : Section of Painting. Carolus-Du- 

 ran ; Sculpture, Rodin; Engraving, Waltner; Art 

 Objects, Cazin. Secretaries, Rene Billotte, Joan 

 Beraud. The society consists of : Honorary mem- 

 bers, 19 ; societaries/205 ; associates, 170. 



