, 1874-05-03

! great rpicture OF Fontainebleau,-the dark
| Italian face Of the father bending over th
| golden cur1s Of the child; Austria and italy
| Austria and France,-sworn foes Tor centu1les-
meeting in II fatal kiss OF poace
Mono Of these souvenirs OF Napoleon ar
quite 30 suggestive az the ittlo chalk sketch
lin
At THE AGE OF s11rEE1.
At the foot OF this is scribbled in italian. in .
| school-boy hand, " Buonapa1te, by his gooe
cature in tho skotch which suggests q waggist
disposition, and it Is pleasant to catch thil
glimpse OF the two young students putting
their heads together over the same desl
at Brienne- The features are in the
turning to look at the silver statue in the centre
OF the room. representing Napoleon as pupil
in the school Of Brienne, It 16. In later years'
both features and figure inclined to corpu1ency
bat here both are Of the severe old Roman
type,-n mold in which his mind and body ware
cast; face and form arc almost gsunt. and chow
premature thought aud night yigils. This ID indu.
bitably the boy who abjnred food and s1cep until
he had solved the mathematical problem which
Threatened to master him In TINT problem
Napoleon mastered Franco and conquered Eu-
rope, and it is for the sake Of the Lessons Of
thoso carly years that We do well to
linger in this memorial chamber. For the
manner in which Napoleon used the
wonderful ascendency which he acquired
to the Higher Powers; bnt the means by which
he acquired that power arc the finest leason
ever offered to youth and genius
Leaving the~MuBeuzn Of sovsrefgns, you can
not help feeheg that new life has been infused
into the dry bones Of History. On your way
out, persuade some obliging attendant to show
you tho way through the endless succession Of
rooms to the suite containing the Collection
Sauvageot and, in the third room, give half an
hour At ieast to
REnxAnD pALIssY's EAnTHEywARE.
1t Is 3 long way from tho exquisite seyres por-
celain Of our day; but no one can read his lifo
without strong desire to see these germs of
great idea, whose full flower is now the per-
fection Of Art. Vas it for baking these,
5odsted Chairs and tsbo into into bis 9 furnace b o5
ivious OF haploas wife mud children in the sacred
fury Of creat1on7 The best specimens here are,
however, to bo found in the Galorie d'Apollon !;
among them, q series OF plates With colored 6g-
They are certainly 8 long step in advance Of
those called his at tho Museum Of Cluny,-
coarse piatters with green serpents and brown
fish on q raised surface 10 the centre.
The sculpture Of tho Louvre ia contained in
Reries Of connecting galleries on the ground
monse, but OF the antiques there are few OF so
striking character as to imprint themselves on
tho memory. or whose typo cannot b. better
seen and studied at the Vatican. The visitor
will hardly have cause for regret II he gires his
tull time to the ono great exception
THE VENUS OF xlLo.
This is tho grandest conception of woman
hood which the Greeks have handed down to u.s.
BY its side the Venus de Medici looks like sim
perlng coquette. The massive but har1no-
the noble bust. and the large, vigorous limbs,
have led many critics to pronounce it q Juno or
q Minerva. But whoever will obsarva the full
ness and grace OF these outlines will confess that
they convey as valid tito to the nana of the
Beautiful Goddess Is does the doll-!ike pretti-
belle whose unfortunate ideal OF Womanly love-
liness forces upon us tho curious anomaly Of
country containing the largest rivers, the grand
eat forests, Inhabited by the most delicnte and
fragile humanity IN the world, would do well to
snatch moment from the fascinating shops OF
the BoulerA.dg to stand before this breathing
marble, and 10 realize, in slightly altered form,
the aspiration Of Matthew Arnold:
But would that Fate would let har xea
Women Of nob!er type than NC.
II she were persuaded by it's eloquence :h7t
beauty is in no wise antagonistic to strength
and Nature, it would be worth TO her aud to
her country MORO than all the Teet Of her tour
through Europe. The only defect which critics
other than tLa French we're accustomed to End
in this statue was, that instead Of standing, as
is whole bearing seemed to demand, "erect
and tall in god-nke majesty" it bent forward in
luiousness which every Partisan considers the
only true womauly posa The exigencies Of the
var Of 1870, which compelled the taking
spaft of The statue for purposes Of conco1lrnsut
aave justified not only these cayilers, but tho |
Unknown Greek sculptor, BY showing that this |
'and was produced By the insertion Of piece OF !
sood between the whist and lower limbs, and by |
Misrepresentation Of tho proper level in the
'lacing Of the feet
Going out from the presence Of the Goddess |
r~t+&
d BY his sympathzing, though sell. elected, |
'uido to turn his back upon its remaining At !
ractions, hal \ carriage from the nearest stand. |
nd, driving out to the cool, gresn avenues Of !
be Bois de Boulogne, lind q
REST ASp RESTORATION IN NATURE
rom what will appear to him at the moment |
urfeit OF Art The long ristas OF CANVAS which |
orm SO largo part Of the treasures Of the !
louvre ought to be attempted first in the morn
7g, when the physical forces ara freshest, snd |
he eyes yet unwearied by the stir, glitter, znd |
lvacity OF she Paris ssreets.
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