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FINE ARTS IN 1899. 



tires were increased to the highest figures on 

 record in recent years. The woolen industry was 

 not so active as was that of cotton until after 

 the middle of the year; then it gradually im- 

 proved and its condition was thereafter very sat- 

 isfactory. Though there was less marked im- 

 provement in other lines of industry, all were 

 prosperous. The dry-goods trade was exceedingly 

 profitable throughout the greater part ot the 

 year in all branches, and consumption appeared 

 to be largely in excess of production, causing gen- 

 erally advancing prices. Indeed, not since the re- 

 sumption of gold payments was activity in trade 

 and manufactures so general. 



Commercial failures during the year numbered 

 9.337, the smallest since 1883, when they were 

 9,184. The liabilities amounted to $90,879,889, 

 against $130,062,899 in the previous year, and they 

 were the lowest since 1881, when $81,155,933 were 

 recorded. It is noteworthy that not only were 

 the liabilities smaller in the aggregate, but they 

 were less also in both manufacturing and trading 

 in every section of the country, except New Eng- 

 land, where the financial troubles in December 

 involved several manufacturing concerns with 

 heavy liabilities, though their failures were not 

 due to the condition of their trade. Such uni- 

 formity of improvement throughout the country 

 is extremely rare, indicating the exceptionally 

 prosperous and sound business conditions prevail- 

 ing during the year. 



Exports of manufactures during 1899 were 

 $380,787,891, against $307,924.994 in 1898, $279,- 

 052,721 in 1897. and $253,690,533 in 1896. 



FINE ARTS IN 1899. Under this title are 

 treated the principal art events of the year end- 

 ing with December, 1899, including especially the 

 great exhibitions in Europe and the United States, 

 sales and acquisitions of works of art, and erec- 

 tion of public statues and monuments. 



Paris. As in 1898, the two Salons were obliged, 

 on account of the preparations for the Universal 

 Expositon of 1900, to give their exhibitions side 

 by side in the Galerie des Machines, which after 

 the close will be transformed into a Salle des 

 Fetes for the coming exposition. A single admis- 

 sion gave access to both exhibitions, the Society 

 des Artistes Frangais receiving two thirds and 

 the Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts one third 

 of the receipts. In the future art exhibitions will 

 be held in the new Palais des Beaux Arts, now 

 building in the Champs Elysees. 



Paris: Salon of the Artistes Francais. The 

 Socie'te des Artistes Francais elected the follow- 

 ing officers for the year: Honorary Presidents, 

 Lon Bonnat, Edouard Detaille; President, Jean 

 Paul Laurens; Vice-Presidents, Benoit Edouard 

 Loviot, Emmanuel Fremiet; Corresponding Secre- 

 tary, Tony Robert-Fleury ; Treasurer, Emile Andr6 

 Koisseau; Secretaries, Albert Maignan, Auguste 

 Bartholdi, Jean Louis Pascal, Augustin Mongin. 



The annual exhibition (May 1 to June 30) com- 

 prised 5,152 numbers, classified as follows: Paint- 

 ings, 2,033 ; cartoons, water colors, pastels, minia- 

 tures, enamels, porcelain pictures, etc., 1,110; 

 sculptures, 808; engraving on medals and pre- 

 cious stones, 111; decorative art, 244; architec- 

 ture, 203; engraving and lithography, 523. 



The following are the honorary awards for 

 1899: Section of Painting: Medal of honor, Fran- 

 cis Tattegrain, Saint-Quentin pris d'Assaut. No 

 first-class medal awarded. Second-class medals: 

 Alberto Pla y Rubio, La Guerre; Hubert Denis 

 Etcheverry, Les Nounous Ariegeoise et Bre- 

 tonne; Fulop Laszlo, portraits; Desire Lucas, Y 

 a Personne? Interieur de Ferme Bretonne; Emile 

 Boggio, Labor; Louis Lemaire, Pivoines et Rosier 



Grimpant; Marcel Rieder, Nocturne; Henry Per- 

 rault, Defense heroi'que du Col de Banyuls ; Pascal 

 Blanchard, portraits; Ernest Gaston Marche, 

 Automne; Edmond Borchard, Un Coup de Co- 

 llier Concarneau; Jean Eugene Julien Masse, 

 Les Clos a Vaux-Harlin ; Jean Laronze, Le Calme ; 

 Charles Hoffbauer, Les Gueux; Antonin Mercie, 

 Colere d' Amour; Maurice Demonts, Les Sorcieres; 

 Henry Gaston Darien, Marche aux Oiseaux 

 Paris; Amedee Buffet, Jesus a Bethanie; Victor 

 Bourgeois, Fin de Rude Journee Maraichers 

 Picards; Paul Sebilleau, Le Lever de la Lune 

 au Golfe Juan. Third-class medals: Adrien Mo- 

 reau-Neret, Georges Lavergne, Louis Alexandre 

 Cabie, L. Jean-Pierre, Henri Zo, Leon Eugene 

 Gerome Dambeza, Henri Thierrot, Jacques Ca- 

 moreyt, Marius Barthalot, Prosper Piatti, Jules 

 , Pages, Maurice Chabas, Alexandre Chantron, Wil- 

 liam Edouard Laparra, Theo Henri Mayan, Henry 

 Grosjean, Albert Decamps, Jules Victor Verdier, 

 Mme. Gruyer-Brielman, Paul Eugene Sieffert, 

 Victor Tardieu, Paul Place-Canton, Henry Mou- 

 rin, Mile. Hedda Stoffregen, Frederick Melville 

 du Mond, Alfred Renaudin, Edmond de Palezieux, 

 John Noble Barlow. 



Section of Sculpture: Medal of honor, Ernest 

 Dubois, Le Pardon (marble group). First-class 

 medals: Aim6 Octobre, Le Remords (marble 

 group) ; Jean Carlus (bronze and granite monu- 

 ment) ; Jean Boucher, Un Soir (marble group). 

 Second-class medals: Jacques Louis Villeneuve, 

 Jules Grosjean, Roger Bloche, Pierre Laurent, 

 Mile. Jeanne Itasse, Charles Louis Picaud, Syl- 

 vain Kinsburger, Paul Melin, Paul Breton, Charles 

 Perron, Ferdinand Faivre. Third-class medals: 

 Mme. Marguerite Syamour, Albert Guilloux, 

 Frederic Pierre Tourte, Nicolas Grandmaison, 

 Paul Moreau-Vauthier, Pierre Aubert, Marie 

 Pierre Curillon, Richard E. Brooks, Paul Auban. 



Section of Architecture. Medal of honor, 

 Edouard Loviot, Grande Salle des Fetes et Cere- 

 monies and Exposition de 1' Agriculture for the ex- 

 position of 1900. First-class medals: Henri Paul 

 Hannotin, Projet de Sanatorium; Felix Bou- 

 tron, Etat Actuel et Restauration des Thermes 

 d 'Augusta Trevirorum (IV e Si6cle) ; Alexandre 

 Maistrasse, in collaboration with Marcel Ber- 

 ger, Projet de Salle des Fetes pour Aubervilliers. 

 Second-class medals: Benjamin Frangois Chaus- 

 semiche, Georges Balleyguier, Paul Edouard He- 

 neux, Jean Laborey, Joseph Charles Chausspied. 

 Third-class medals: Gabriel Belesta and Joseph 

 Thillet, Max Sainsaulieu, Fernand Jules Bour- 

 dilliat, Louis Charles Guinot. 



Section of Engraving and Lithography: Medal 

 of honor, Aristide Lionel le Conteux (etching). 

 First-class medal, William Barbotin (engraving). 

 Second-class medals: Louis Jean Muller (etch- 

 ing^, Joseph Sourbier (lithograph), Eugene Juille- 

 rat (lithograph). Third-class medals: Julien De- 

 turck, Lucien Penat, Georges Antonin Lopisgich, 

 Georges Serrier, Pierre Gustave Taverne, Antoine 

 Martin, Mile. Marguerite Vernaut, Eugene Det6, 

 Victor Dutirtre, Leonard Antoine Jarraud. 



The great picture to which the medial of honor 

 was awarded Tattegrain's Saint-Quentin pris 

 d'Assaut exhibits the flight of the inhabitants 

 of the town after its capture in 1 557 by the army 

 of Philip II under the Duke of Savoy. Women 

 of all ages, with disheveled hair and terrified faces, 

 accompanied by many children, crowd the streets, 

 hurrying frantically between burning houses, the 

 walls of some of which are falling in on them. 

 It is a striking illustration of war's horrors. 



Another great canvas, by Rochegrosse, L'As- 

 sassinat de 1'Empereur Geta, represents the young 

 emperor hiding despairingly under the robe of 



