344 



FINE ARTS. 



raada, crucifix in hand, reproving Ferdinand 

 and Isabella for entertaining a proposition to 

 protect the Jews in Spain, for a money con- 

 sideration, from the Inquisition. 



Among the best of the many military pict- 

 ures were Aime" Morot's " Rezonville August 

 30, 1870," Julien Le Blanks "Combat deFere- 

 Champenoise March 25, 1814," and Paul 

 Grolleron's u Episode of the Battle of Loigny." 

 Notable genre pictures were Dagnun-Bouver- 

 et's "Pain be"nit," Ferdinand Heilbuth's " Vil- 

 le"giature," Peter Kroyer's "Departure for 

 Night-Fishing," Ralph Curtis's "Sirocco at 

 Venice," William Kennedy's "Potato- Har- 

 vest," Ernest Delahaye's " Farriery," Alfred 

 Bramtot's "Job's Friends," fimile Renouf's 

 "End of the Day," Gerome's "(Edipus," 

 Julius Melcher's "The Sermon," and Joseph 

 Gueldry's " Metal Scouring." 



The Salon was marked by an unusual num- 

 ber of still-life pictures, many of them large, 

 by many fine landscapes and marines, and by 

 the usual variety of excellent portraits charac- 

 tsristic of the modern French school. 



The exhibition was visited by 372,000 per- 

 sons, about 30,000 more than were registered 

 in 1835. The receipts from all sources were 

 about 240,200 francs. 



Paris : Miseellaneons. The sale of the works 

 of the late Alphonse de Neuville, held in May, 

 produced more than 300,000 francs. The fol- 

 lowing were some of the best prices : " Attack 

 by Fire of a Barricaded House," 20,000 francs ; 

 "Le Bourget," 15,000 francs, " Le Parlemen- 

 taire (aquarelle), 20,000 francs (bought by the 

 state); "Le Parlementaire," 27,500 francs 

 (bought by M. Humbert); " Charge at Grave- 

 lotte," 11,600 francs; u An Ambuscade," 11,- 

 600 francs. 



The sale of the Defoer collection, May 22, 

 produced 1,035,550 francs. Some of the best 

 prices obtained were the following, in francs: 

 Corot, "Ponte de Mantes," 18,000; "Nymphs 

 and Fauns," 65,100, " Danse de Nymphes," 15,- 

 500, "Chateau de Pierrefonds," 10,000; Dau- 

 bigny, " Bords de 1'Oise," 14,250, " View of 

 Conflans," 16,500 ; Decamps, " Garde-Chasse," 

 36,000 ; Delacroix,' " Christ on the Cross," 29,- 

 500; Diaz, "Sunset," 15,000; Fromentin, 

 " Fantasia," 68,000, " Drinking-Place," 16,200; 

 Ge"ricault, " Hussar Trumpeter," 19,500; Meis- 

 sonier, ''1814," 128,000, "Ball-Players at An- 

 tibes," 46,700, "The Traveler," 30,500, "The 

 Laugher," 25,000; Millet, "Man with the 

 Hoe," 57,100, "La Lessiveuse," 35,000, 

 " Gleaner," 24,100, "Weed-Burner," 25,000; 

 Theodore Rousseau, " Banks of the Loire," 

 55,000, " Evening," 27,500 ; Troyon, " Pastur- 

 age," 33,000, "Ox going to Pasture," 17,200; 

 Ziem, " Entrance of Grand Canal at Venice," 

 24,000. 



The collection of Laurent Richard, sold in 

 Paris, May 29, for the aggr3gate sum of 455,136 

 francs, comprised both old and modern mas- 

 ters. Among the best prices obtained were: 

 Theodore Rousseau, " Marges dansles Landes," 



20,000 francs; Troyon, "Norman Pasture,'' 

 20,000. 



The collection of John Saulnier, of Bor- 

 deaux, sold in Paris, June 5, brought 587,720 

 francs, of which nearly 250,000 francs were 

 for works by Corot. Among the best prices 

 were: Corot, "Forest* of Coubron," 25,500 

 francs, "Souvenir du Lac Nemi," 16,000, 

 "The Windmill," 25,000, "Norman Farm," 

 18,000 ; Delacroix, " Boissy d'Anglas at the 

 Convention," 40,000, Bordeaux Museum ; 

 " Women of Algiers in the Bath," 15,500 ; J. 

 F. Millet, "Goose Girl," 29,100; Theodore 

 Rousseau, " Spring," 24,500 ; Tassaert, " Temp- 

 tation of St. Hilarion," 15,900. 



An exhibition of the works of Paul Baudry, 

 deceased, was held at the Ecole des Beaux- 

 Arts in April and May. The catalogue com- 

 prised 424 numbers, of which 168 were paint- 

 ings, and the remainder designs and cartoons. 

 The receipts are to be applied to the erection 

 of a monument to the artist. 



Jules Breton has been elected a member of 

 the Academy in place of Paul Baudry, de- 

 ceased. 



The Museum of the Luxembourg has been 

 removed into the building called the Orangery, 

 which is to be extended to meet the growing 

 requirements of the collection. 



Munkacsy's " Last Moments of Mozart," was 

 put on exhibition in Paris in February. The 

 dying composer, in a yellow dressing-gown, 

 and seated in an arm-chair, holds in one hand 

 a leaf of the score of the requiem which he 

 had composed to be sung at his funeral, and 

 beats time with the other for a group of sing- 

 ers at the left, who are rehearsing it. Behind 

 him stands his wife and at his right his little 

 son. A third group of friends, near the piano 

 in the background, observe the master with 

 sorrowful countenances. 



London : Royal Academy. The Royal Academy 

 is composed (1886) of 42 academicians. 30 as- 

 sociates, and 6 honorary foreign academicians, 

 viz. : Louis Gallait, Jean L6on Gerome, Claude 

 Jean Baptiste Guillaume, Louis Pierre Hen- 

 riquel-Dupont, Ludwig Knaus, and Jean Louis 

 Ernest Meissonier. 



Sir Frederick Leighton, President of the 

 Royal Academy, has been created a baronet, 

 and has been elected an associate of the Royal 

 Academy of Belgium to succeed Louis Hague, 

 deceased, and a full member of the Berlin 

 Academy. 



The seventeenth winter exhibition (January 

 4 to March 13) was devoted to works of the 

 old masters and of deceased masters of the 

 British school. The collection contained 210 

 oil-pictures, and 46 water-color drawings by 

 Joseph M. W. Turner. 



The one hundred and eighteenth annual ex- 

 hibition opened in May, with 1,925 numbers, 

 selected from nearly 9,000 contributions. Of 

 these, 1,111 were oil-paintings, 435 water- 

 colors, and works in black-and-white, 202 ar- 

 chitectural drawings, and 177 sculptures. 



