The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-12-14
European Correspondence-No. III.
PARIS, Sept. 20, 1867.
The international Exposition.

PARIS, Sept. 20, 1867.
The international Exposition.
In reporting the Universal Exposition to your
readers, which | shall do from notes taken daily at
the Exhibition, l shall take each nation which has
exhibited, separately, commencing first with France.
1t will be my aim to be rs concise as possible, neces-
sarily emitting many things which may be seen ut
the Exposition, but ut the same time telling you all l
can, and much that | know will interest the agricul-
turist, artist, philosopher, scholar, and man of the
wOrld-for everything that is interesting TO such diff
ferent tastes can be studied at the Exposition.
1t has been estimated by some one, that if the Wis
itOr TO the Exposition should spend in his study of it
five minutes to each case, it would take fifteen months
to finish up the whole, staying there ten hours a day.
This statement is not exaggerated. Some idea can
thus be obtained of the magnitude of the show.
Commencing first then with the French Department,
we will look at the innermost ring next to the central
garden. This gallery is devoted TO
The History of Labor.
This looks like n museum, and contains specimens
of the labor of the earlier ages in France. There are
over six thousand objects in this gallery. and 1 will
not mention them all they consist of old manu-
scripts, old coins, ivory work, wood carving, jewelry
work, pottery work, bronze work, etc. Most of the
objects in this department were obtained from the
Museum of Saint Germain, and the Lyons Museum,
and the student of ancient labor would find these
much better places to view the results of ancient art.
One cannot but admire here the beautiful Gallo-Ro-
man bronzes from the Lyons Museum the Apollo
Of the Troyes Museum, terra cottas, and other OBJ
jects of rude execution. These Were the first essays
of the Gauls in the state of civilization brought TO
them by the Romans. This gallery might be studied
in detail, every object being made the subject of a
descriptive notice giving it, origin, whence it comes
and its value. There seems to be very few people in
this gallery /; the next one, however, in to which We
will pass is always crowded-the gallery devoted to
fine arts-in which we viii look at the
Paintings and Statuary.
There are seven saloons in this zone, in which are
exhibited paintings from the young modern school of
France. Ii is Of course represented by its best mas
tiers. Cabanel, who received a medal of honor, ex-
exhibits six paintings, the most prominent of which
are Paradise Lost, II highly colOred painting; Birth
of Venus, good for modest eyes. This is a painter a
la mode. Why? lie gives also Il good portrait of
the Emperor. Herbert exhibits a number of paint
ings. lie has adopted n manner and never abandons
it. His painting. called Rosa Nera at the Fountain,
is very beautiful. Pills took a gold medal. He ex-
hibits two paintings Battle of the Alma, 10th Sept,
1854, and The Fete, given TO the Emperor and En-
press, 18th Sept, 1860. These are enormous paint
ings and attract considerable attention. The French
picture galleries abound in paintings of great size.
In the first painting mentioned, by Pills, the divis-
ions Of general CanrUbert and Prince Napoleon are
TO be seen in movement between the villages Of Bour-
liouk and Alma In the second the Emperor and
Empress stand out in life size, while before them are
to he seen the chiefs of the Arab goums, who offer to
the Emperor the horse Of Gaada, caparisoned in
gold. These are very attractive paintings
J~alabert, a very pleasing painter, but perhaps a
little affected, has a very fine painting Of Christ
Walking on the Water. Yrou has two mammoth
pictures, the taking Of the Tower of Milakon, Sept
s, 1855, and the Gorge of Malakoff. These are
striking pictures, and present an eloquent page
against war. The latter represents the desperate
struggle which took place between the French and
Russians in the gorge of Malakof. Creome took Il
gold melal. lie exhibits n number of pictures,
among them that of the Aimee or Female Dancer,
bearing n striking resemblance to a well known
character Of Paris, which attracts considerable no
tice. Toulmouche exhibits three very pretty little
familiar scenes: The Confidence, The Forbidden
Fruit, aud \ Prudent Marriage. Belange, who
stands first among the battle painters of the second
order, has several pictures. The Cuirassiers of
wa;crloo-passage Of the hollow ways one worthy
Of notice.
Prutais, a very young painter Of battles, exhibits
two or three pictures they are good, but suscepti-
Of being too sentimental. The Morning before
the Attack, and The Evening after the Combat, at
tract notice as being very good. Besides these, l
might mention pictures by Hamon, Millet, and Dau-
bigny-besutiful landscape painters also, The Prod
igal Son, by Dubufe, an immense canvas presenting
great qualities. France has decidedly the best ex-
hibition in the Exposition. But the best paintings
in the world from modern artists are not to be seen
in France-one must 20 further into the Continent.
We will look next NJ the statuary exhibited by
France, which is to be seen in the garden. This, as
|, gentleman from one Of the Western States Of Amer
ca remarked, might be considered "a very immoral
But statuary has its admirers, and they are
10 be viewed as grand works Of art. In statuary
cannot begin TO compete with Italy, but she
exhibits many fine pieces. Nearly all present that
character which IS sought after in our day,
md q moao;onous exhibition OF sculptures i the re-
would mention among the number Ugo-ia