Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-10-29
r.,E FINE ARTS IN FRANCE.

WORN IN THE MUSEUM OF THE LUXEMBOURG
[Paris (sept I'D correspondence OF the London Ne~sl
The Museum Of the Luxembourg, which is con.
sdered as place of passage ,or moo h %oTks oa art
Versailles or 10 The imperial residences, has Within the
last thirteen yerrs received the greater number OF the
naint,nps ard statutes purchased by the government
Near The works of Nm. Ingres, Delacroix, Dearoche
A CLorar r,ov he seen those of M Ri. Flandrin,
Hehort Roucnereau together with twenty-slx newer
paintings placed there within few days, and some Of
which were exhibited this year Among the
latest arrivals the most [ehatAaoIo aLe'
Snrino nv Danbignv valuable fOr'its colorlng pro-
menade in the Tuileries, by Kaun, aud Veew OF the
Rnsnhous by Sabutz m5arger. These paintings arc
in the northeast gallery. A view OF Fonlal1eoeau by
Decaen an Episode OF the ReVoutoh OF LOU; ny
DeIecroix q Study, by Staub; Caravan, by Billy
and the Death of Gercault, by AIRY Sehe4r, Ge plac-
ed in the eastern gallery, and worthy OF notice
Piiorimsge in the woods Of AIsace, oy bTion hFe-
ton Wedding by Adolphe LeIuel and GLASS Lamp
bv Despo are to be- seen in the lower gallery In the
middle of which is bust CT Arindne In tears FL Aime
Miett and two statues in bronze, by Dure; one rep
reganting fisherman dancing the tarantea, anu IA
poIitan vine dresser relating comic incident.
Tn the rotIcda, between the Eastern ana western
ool RIGS ara several new statues among hem the Ed
nc ,ion of Bacchus" by Perrault, group when ob'
tanned the medal of honor this year occupies Ine cehie
P1 scbe returning from the Internal regions Agrppua
occupv the inches The magnificent group OF CoTnc-
lima and her sons faced at the side OF the rotuhua
and at the Eas ern entrance may be seen Inc puSts VI
the Gracbi executei in brorz. bJ Gu!Aune' ana lie
bust G. Rembrandt, by DIVA ..-
In II gallery to the right hand which IS divided II.
70 f,ur commandments are La Berouse, by Jules Brc
ton the Review OF the Tdileres, by Belange several
landscapes by Frau:as and DesIo5e'tl; painting by
Beaume, representing. Charles n laying the nLsI eoh
of monument on the Place de Ia COncord2, dedicated
to Louis XVI; the waiting room at the Monte dc
Piete by HeiIouth the Gathering IN oi the POPPY
Crop, by Laugie; two landscapes by Lanode ana Ma
ION View Of Manchester, by justin OuVrleF' "hl
! Arab uorsemen, by Fromentn.
| In that gallery are also placed 4" Inc weeping Is &
gar Girl" by Hughes Merle, ard the "Return from u
Festival in AIsace," by MaFechal. Opposite are two
small paintings by Fcbel and Chevt, which are very
much admired The first represents wine shop al"
the other s2inniug girl asleep procession at Pa
lesmo, by Coubortn Hawking Party, by tromed-
tin View in Morocco, by 10; and the interior OF
convent dspensary, By Leeux, ore IN tue same Ea'
lery.
1t is much TO be regretted that the last mentioned
four compartments are badly lighted that some O.
the paintings are scarcely visible. When the Senate
was insaled in the Luxembourg, during the first EN-
pre- the greater part of the magnificent gallery, dec
rated by Rubens, between the years l62i and lo2".
with twenty paintings, representing the history OF
Mary de Medics, destroyed, to make room for The
grand staircase constructed by Chagrn aud what re
manned was arranged as it is at present
la 1901, ChaptaI, Minister of the Intersr, decrcci
that a museum of which the gallery OF Rubns Should
form the richest ornament should be established N the
eastern gallery of the Luxembourg, and Naigeon wos
appointed conservator Of this new museum in 1901.
But after the return OF the Bourbons in 1915, royal
order removed the collection in the Luxembourg to
the Louvre, to ell the vacancies caused by the re,
mova of number of pictures restored to the foreign
governments from which they bad been taken by Ma
pocon. Subsequently, Louis XVIII, not wishing tina
the Palace of the Chamber of Peers should be deprived
of museum that contributed to its Importance, COM
manded that the most remarkable productions OF the
living artists should be collected there. For this pu7
pose he selected all that valuable in the royal resi-
dcnce and III the of the Louvre, and he thus
restored the gallery OF the modern French echooL