==Hans Schuler==

Schuler's a piece of work. He certainly chalked up a lot of minuments, so putting him in the "monuments" section would certainly be defensible. On the other hand, the sort of piece that won him the Paris Salon prize and fetches high prices at auction to this day is probably more like this one: , which just sold at Christies in London for over twelve thousand dollars. The most important Schuler piece in the Walters Art Museum is of this sort - an extremely sensual, forlorn, decidedly unmonumental, and almost embarrassinbly life-like Ariadne writhing in an agony of sexual abandonment. Very decadent, very fin-de-siécle, and apparently very appealing to the present-day avoir-de-l'argent. Please do advise.