PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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MEMORIAL SCULPTURE. 
The great need of to-day in our own memorial 
sculpture is variety of design and a greater breadth 
of true artistic originality, and it is to be expected 
that under the conditions of the new order of things 
in our cemetery management, in which it is desira- 
MONUMENT TO JOIGNEAUX, MATHURIN MOREAU, SC. 
ble that monuments should be fewer in number and 
of better design, more art will be exhibited in our 
memorials than heretofore. The same suggestion 
applies to the sculptural adornment of our cities 
and parks. There is on the whole too much same- 
ness in the design of our portrait statuary, which 
however, is in a large measure due to the inartistic 
features of modern garments. 
There is no necessity however to confine the 
memorial to a full length portrait model, but as the 
accompanying illustration shows, a beautiful memo- 
rial monument may be composed of a bust and ideal 
accessories. This form of memorial is gaining in favor 
and offers not only a pleasing but most artistic varia 
tion from the monotony complained of. The illustra- 
tion is of a monument modeled by Mathurin Moreau, 
to be erected in honor of Joigneaux, a celebrated 
French agriculturist. M. Moreau is of the younger 
school of French sculptors, and for this work he was 
awarded the medal of honor at this year’s salon of 
the Champs Elysees, Paris. 
Another illustration herewith given, shows a 
cemetery memorial by the celebrated French sculp- 
tor Antoine Mercie, who is famous for such work. 
It is in memory of Madame Carvalho a great singer. 
Mercie is noted for beautiful figure work, as several 
illustrations in these columns from time to time serve 
to show. Perhaps as far as character in the figure is 
concerned, the sculptor generally shows more in 
his work, but as Madame Carvalho created the role 
“TOMB OF MME. CARVALHO.”— MERCIE, SC. 
of Marguerite in Gounod’s opera of Faust, Mercie 
may have had the last scene of the opera in his 
mind when he designed the memorial. The idea is 
a beautiful one. The monument is cut from one 
piece of marble, a method often adopted by sculp- 
tors of such work. This is suggestive as an appro- 
priate cemetery memorial, entirely out of the mo- 
notony which does so much to mar the harmony of 
the mind as well as that of the surroundings in our 
beautiful cemetery grounds. 
