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$20,000. Other fair prices were realized, as for Mil- 

 let's Landscape, $8,250; Manet's Sortie du Port 

 de Boulogne, $7 ,050; Degas s Les Coulisses, $6,100; 

 Daubigny's Cliff at \illerville, $5.500; Homer 

 Martin's Westchester Hills, $5,300; and Puvis de 

 Chavannes's L'Esperence, $4,100. 



The sale of the collection of oil-paintings, 

 water-colors, bronzes, etc., of the Paris firm of 

 Boussod, Valadon & Co., who have discontinued 

 their branch shop in New York, occupied the last 

 three evenings in February. The amount realized 

 on the first evening was $30,542, on the second 

 $76,475, and on the third $156,093, or a total of 

 about $269,000. The picture that brought the 

 highest price was Regnault's well-known Autom- 

 edon and the Horses of Achilles, which was sold 

 for $12,500. This large work (10.4 high by 10.9), 

 painted in Rome in 1867, was bought by L. P. 

 Morton, of New York, and sold in 1882 to S. A. 

 Coale, Jr., of St. Louis, for $5.900. Two years 

 later it was placed on exhibition in the Boston 

 Museum of Fine Arts, where it was supposed it 

 would remain permanently. The only other pic- 

 ture that sold for more than $10,000 was Corel's 

 La Ferte, which brought $11,500. Another Corot, 

 Twilight, brought $7,100. A Rousseau, La Ri- 

 viere, brought $9,500, and a Jacque, Shepherd 

 and Flock, $8,100. Diaz's Sandy Road sold for 

 $7,800, and Dupre's Frog Pool for $6,850. Sir 

 Joshua Reynolds's Portrait of Sacchini brought 

 only $2,450. 



The sale of the F. O. Matthiessen collection, on 

 April 1 and 2, realized $348,780, of which $112,505 

 was obtained for 81 pictures, and the remainder 

 for 64 pictures sold on the last evening. The 

 highest price was obtained for Rubens's The Holy 

 Family, which was bought in by George P. Blow 

 for $50,000. The picture that brought the next 

 highest price was Jules Breton's Harvesting the 

 Poppies, which sold for $36,500. Other good 

 prices were: Landscape and Cattle, Troyon, 

 $16,500; Portrait of an Old Man, Rembrandt, 

 $16,000; Portrait of Antonio Grimani, Doge of 

 Venice, Titian, $13,000; Mary Magdalen at Pray- 

 er, Murillo, $13,200; Arabs Crossing a Stream, 

 Srhreyer, $13,000; The Awakening of Love, Diaz, 

 $10,000; Gipsy Mother, Ludwig Knaus, $7,200; 

 Normandy Horse, Rosa Bonheur, $7,200; The 

 Philosopher, Meissonier, $8,300; Summer, Dau- 

 bigny, $6,600; Avenue of Trees, Corot, $6,950; 

 Sunset after Rain, Rousseau, $5,300; Fontaine- 

 bleau Forest, Diaz, $4,500; and Officer ordering 

 an Advance, Detaille, $7,100. 



The Blakeslee collection of early English, 

 Dutch, and Flemish masters, sold on the evenings 

 of April 10 and 11, 163 paintings in all, reali/ed 

 $168,940, of which $85,220 was obtained at the 

 first sale for 82 pictures. The highest price re- 

 ceived was for Sir Thomas Lawrence's famous 

 portrait of Mrs. Siddons, which sold for $17,000. 

 Van Dyck's Portrait of the Duke of Portland, 

 a full-length, life-size canvas, brought $16,000. 

 Constable's Opening the Lock was sold for 

 $13,000. Other good prices obtained were: Les 

 Deux Soeurs, Bouguereau, $4,400; Allant au Pa- 

 turage, Corot, $3,000; The Butcher Boy, Knaus, 

 $3,850; Portrait of Fanny Kemble, Sir Thomas 

 Lawrence. $2,850; and Nell Gwynne, Sir Peter 

 Lely, $2.600. 



Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of 

 Fine Arts. The seventy-first annual exhibition, 

 which opened with the usual reception on Jan. 

 18. was the most notable art show held in Phil- 

 adelphia in the past five years, even exceeding 

 that of last year. The collection, which included 

 many of the prize pictures from the Buffalo Ex- 

 position, comprised 745 numbers, of which 439 



were paintings in oil, 60 pieces of sculpture, and 

 312 water-colors, black and whites, etc., including 

 0(3 etchings by Whistler. The place of honor was 

 given to George De Forest Brush's portrait group 

 of Mrs. Goodwin and her Sister. To the right 

 of it was Edwin A. Abbey's Penance of Eleanor, 

 Duchess of Gloucester, from the Carnegie Insti- 

 tute, Pittsburg, and to the left a fine landscape, 

 with twilight effect, by Charles H. Davis. Dag- 

 nan-Bouveret's large figure piece Consolatrix 

 Afflictorum was loaned by Henry C. Frick. An 

 attractive figure study, entitled Une Parisienne, 

 was contributed by Albert Lynch, the Parisian 

 artist, his first appearance here as an exhibitor. 

 Among notable portraits were Whistler's L'Anda- 

 lousienne, Sargent's G. M. Williamson, Eastman 

 Johnson's John D. Rockefeller, Cecilia Beaux's 

 Mrs. Phelps Stokes, Alexander's Newbold Morris, 

 and Anna E. Klumpke's Rosa Bonheur. Milton 

 Lockwood contributed five portraits and Horace 

 Walker five pastoral scenes. Winslow Homer 

 was represented by an interesting study of Wild 

 Geese, and Edward Simmons by a fine marine, 

 The High Sea. The sculpture exhibition was 

 confined principally to portraits, but St. Gaudens 

 was represented by his Stevenson memorial 

 bronze, Karl Heber by a figure of a resting boy, 

 entitled Pastoral, and Herman A. Macneil by an 

 Indian group, The Sun Vow. 



The honors and prizes connected with the ex- 

 hibition were awarded as follow: Walter Lippin- 

 cott prize of $300, to Walter McEwen, for his 

 picture An Ancestor; Temple gold medal, Wins- 

 low Homer, for his picture Northeaster; Mary 

 Smith prize of $100, Eleanor Earle, for her pic- 

 ture entitled Fire Light. 



Miscellaneous. Memorial Day was observed 

 in New York by the dedication in the Riverside 

 Park, at the foot of Eighty-ninth Street, of the 

 Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Monument, one 

 of the most beautiful structures of the city. 

 Before the unveiling of the monument there was 

 an imposing parade by Government troops, sail- 

 ors from the battle-ships, regiments of the Na- 

 tional Guard, Grand Army posts, and other or- 

 ganizations, reviewed by Acting-Gov. Nixon, 

 .Mayor Low, Gen. Miles. Gen. Horace Porter, and 

 Gen. O. O. Howard. The oration was delivered 

 by Gen. Howard. The battle-ship Alabama took 

 part in the celebration by firing salutes. The 

 monument, a circular Corinthian temple whose 

 design suggests the Choragic Monument of Lysic- 

 rates at Athens, but which is much larger and 

 is embellished with symbolic ornaments belong- 

 ing to its national character, is of pure white 

 marble on a circular basement surrounded by 

 terraces and approached by grand staircases on 

 each side. 



The unveiling of the Rochambeau statue, in 

 Washington, on May 24, was an event of almost 

 international importance, and was marked by 

 the presence of a laqge special French emba>~\ . 

 including the present Count and Countess de 

 Rochambeau, descendants of the marshal's broth- 

 er, Gen. Brugere. commander-in-chief of the 

 French army, the Count de Lafayette, the Marquis 

 de Chambrun. great-grandson of Lafayette, and 

 other prominent representatives of the French 

 Government. The occasion was made notable also 

 by a military parade, a speech by Ambassador 

 Horace Porter, and an oration by Senator Lodge. 

 The statue, the work of Ferdinand Harrier, of 

 Paris, stands in the southwest corner of La- 

 fayette Square, a short distance from the White 

 House. Rochambeau, in bronze, in the uniform 

 of his rank, stands on an ornate pedestal, with 

 a scroll in the left hand and pointing with the 



