

FINE ARTS IN 1898. 



retour des Homines est signal*.' " : Mile. Angele Dela- 

 salle, " Lt> Ketour de laChasse"; Fernand Sabatte, 

 "Un Philosophe"; Leon Gagneau, " Le Viaduc 

 des Moulineaux " ; Edmond Georges Grandjean, 

 44 Le Clmr ilu Soleil"; Edmond Debon, " Les Va- 

 rechs & Carolles " ; Jules Charles Aviat, " Portrait 

 de .Mine, la Marquise de X "; Jean Joseph 



class medals: Louis Ridel, Louis Cavallier, Jean 

 Larnn/e, F.u-ene Antoiiie Guillon. Marcel Rieder, 

 Fortunio Soriano. Louis linger, Maurice Jeannin, 

 CliarlesCres. Henri Kdmond Rudaux, Adolphe Henri 

 Laissemcnt, Henri ('ourselles-I)umont, Henri Da- 

 badie, Julien Adolphe Duvocelle, Louis Abel Tru- 

 chet. Leon Pierre Felix. Albert Thomas, Georges 



andre Chieotot, < ; income Grosso, Mihie, 



Amrdee Buffet. Desire Lucas, Max Bolim, Victor 

 Ferdinand Bourgeois. Kugene Henri Cauchois 



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(marble group): Hippolyte Lefebvre, "Niole" 

 (marble group) : Paul Loisseau-Rousscau, " Le Sup- 

 plice de la Croix " (statue, marble and bronze). 

 Second-class medals : Victor Peter. " Maternite " 

 (lioness and whelps, marble group) ; Joseph Antoine 

 laniard, " Ksjtoir Vaincu " (mantle statue); Henri 

 Honore Pie. " Echo des Bois " (marble statue) ; Leo 

 Laporte-Blairsy, " Le Reveil de Morphee " (marble 

 statue) ; Auguste Maillard, " Chute a Icare " (mar- 

 ble) ; Paul Roussel, " Le Pelerin de la Vie '' (bas- 

 relief plaster). Third-class medals : Georges Emile 

 Muhlenbeck, Andre Vermare, Paul Darbefeuille, 

 Louis Castex, Eticher Girardin, Paul Duchuing, 

 Kuiile Derre, Paul Eugene Breton, Emile Guillaume. 



Section of Architecture: No first-class medal 

 awarded. Second-class medals: Emile Andre,. Jo- 

 anny Bernard (with M. Robert), Henri Fernand 



Si n>t. Third-class medals: Charles Letrosne, 



I'x'iiiinl. Louis Jaumin, Charles Chauvet, Pierre 

 Choret, Gaston Munier, Joseph Charlet, Edmond 

 Fatio. Justin Krnest, Marcel Bidoire. 



Section of Engraving and Lithography : Medal 

 of honor, Jean Patricot. No first-class medal 

 awarded. Second-class medals: Jules Simon Pay- 

 rau (engraving); Georges Sauvage, Agricol Charles 

 Betiard. Marie Edmond Honer (lithography); 

 Louis Valere Ruet, Lucien Marcellin Gautier, Andre 

 Charles Coppier, Gaston Albert Manchon (etching). 

 Third-das* medals: Abel Jamas (engraving); Alex- 

 andre Felix Leleu. Kirmin Bouisset (lithography) ; 

 Lt'-'in Ba/.in, Krnest Maitre (wood engraving) ; Mine. 

 Clemence Elisa Chauvel (etching). 



limner's Le Levite d'KphraTm et sa Femme 

 Morte," the medal-of-honor picture, attracted much 

 attention from the public and, with a few excep- 

 tions, commendation from the critics. The dead 

 wife shows the same nude, with the ruddy glory of 

 flowing hair against pale-gray flesh tints, which 

 Ilemierhas painted faithfully for nearly half a cen- 

 tury, and (he head of the Levite looking down on 

 her face from the shadowy background is a good 

 illustration of his peculiar handling of light and 

 shade. 



U- .ehegrosse contributed a large decorative canvas, 

 intended fi.r the staircase of the library of the Sor- 

 bonne, entitled, "Le Chant des Muses i'veille 1'aine 

 humaine." The sky is filled with the Muses, who 

 with shadowy garments float past singing to the ac- 

 companiment of a lyre borne by one of the fore- 

 most; below them, in the foreground and at the 

 right, many specimens of prehistoric man, arrested 

 in various acts characteristic of him and of his age, 

 look up in evident ama/ement at the novel sight 

 and sounds. In the center are the inevitable nudes, 



one on her back, the other posing to the front and 

 looking askance over her shoulder at her sisters in 

 the sky. 



The "Decoration d'une Salle du Museum," by 

 Fernand Cormon, is a still larger decorative work, 

 to which an entire apartment of the Salon was given 

 up. A large ceiling exhibits the several human 

 races, the Aryan, the Semitic, and the yellow, black, 

 and red races. In the foreground is primitive man, 

 behind him at the left the Aryans, to the right, on 

 high, the Semites, and below the yellow races, the 

 blacks of Africa, and the red men of America. Ten 

 panels exhibit the rise to civilization : 1. The qua- 

 ternary period, with the megatherium and other 

 prehistoric animals. 2. Glacial period, with the 

 mammoth and cave bear. 3. Polished stone age, 

 in the distance the funeral of a chief. 4. Bronze 

 and iron age, in the foreground a primitive for^e. 

 The next six panels show the development of hu- 

 manity: 5. Primitive man devouring the crawfish 

 which his woman digs out for him among the rocks. 



6. The flint age. Man conceives the idea of a tool. 



7. Huntsmen in the ice age, with perfected stone 

 and bone weapons. 8. Fishermen, age of polished 

 stone a lacustrine village in Switzerland. 9. Age 

 of bronze ; agriculturists. 10. Age of iron ; emi- 

 gration of a Gallic horde. 



Jean Paul Laurens contributed another of his 

 scenes of Paris history for the Hotel de Ville, 

 " L'Arrestation de Broussel," a staircase filled with 

 descending men at arms, their leader with drawn 

 sword at the foot and the guarded prisoner closely 

 following him. On the balcony above crying 

 women look down, and on the stairs several men 

 seem to make energetic protest. 



Gerome contributed one of his oft-painted in- 

 teriors, an Arab or Moorish porcelain bathroom, 

 superintended by a blue-draped eunuch in the back- 



f round, and three nude odalisques in the middle and 

 )reground, two chatting beside the water and the 

 third posing to the spectator in front. 



One of the strongest pictures of the year is Roy- 

 bet's " L'Astronome," representing a number of 

 Parisian celebrities of the present, including Jules 

 Lefebvre, Cormon, and others, in costumes of the 

 time of Louis XIII, grouped around a celestial 

 globe listening to a lesson in astronomy. 



Paris : Salon of the Soci6t6 Nationale. The 

 ninth annual exhibition of the Societe Nationale 

 des Beaux Arts comprised 2.569 numbers, of which 

 1,286 were paintings, 599 designs, drawings, etc., 147 

 engravings, 209 sculptures, 240 art objects, and 88 

 architecture. 



The death of Puvis de Chavannes, the mainstay 

 of the secession Salon, made necessary the election 

 of a new president, resulting in the choice of 

 Edouard De'taille. 



Prominent among the exhibits was the great 

 decorative panel which the late president added 

 to the history of St. Genevicve, for the Pantheon, 

 entitled " Ste. Genevieve veille sur la Ville Endor- 

 mie." The saint stands on a terrace which domi- 

 nates the ancient Lutetia. She has just left her 

 cell, which is lighted by her lamp, and with her 

 hand on the stone balustrade, beside which is a 

 single pot of flowers, looks down on the roofs of the 

 city that cluster around a basilica within the narrow 

 precinct of the ramparts. Back of the ramparts 

 the river mirrors the moon, and back of that spreads 

 the country, tinged with blue and dotted with villas 

 under a sky full of starlight. St. Genevieve stain Is 

 immovable in the silence of the night, her head and 

 shoulders covered by a white veil falling over iv 

 robe marked by straight folds of greenish brown, 

 and, though her head is marked by no aureole, im- 

 presses the spectator with all the supernatural 

 charm which belongs to her legend. 





