Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-07-15
EVENING STAR.
Thu RSDAY.. Jsly H, 1875.
Antoine Louis Barye.

He was the greatest sculptnr that ever
nFef. Barge, "a a moieler OF animals. had
TO equal. No artist Was ever grieyed FOR by
/ lis brothers as Barge is to-day. Every az
! tiSt in Paris viii follow him 10 his tomb.
lie was the noblest, the simplest, the most
unaffected OF creatures. he lived o1fy for his
art; be had Lot an idea outside IL One iaY
"a the summer of 1s67 Knocked a, b.. door.
Mime Barye opened IL, and / asked for mon
sieur. -, :, For three weeks I have not seen
/ him There is new tiger in the Jar,lin. alNi
WINE trace of the jungle remains NJ Hsrye
VIII stay there" This was how Rarye 81 udis
re loved his wild animals, and the Jartin
Ges PlaEteS was his home When he mo-
GelIed he seized not upon mere forms OF flesh
and bone. His gift IL was 10 ia1prison the
spirit OF the animal. His lions are true lions
they are true monarchs OF the desert. and II
we had never heard OF the king OF beasts nor
seen him until We came face TO face with
q lion of Barge, yet should we say. {ngreiu
TeT-Royaity is his inheritance IL was so
with every form Of animal life that Parye
portrayed. The same patient. loving toll
met ever with the same reward. No che
ever more abandoned the world and Its ANTI
tious out of pure love of his art than did Ba-
rye From morning until night he devote
himself TO il; when he was not modelling ne
WI, WIS reSoIVihg forms or live animal beauty
before him in his mind. He talkei of nothing
else with his pupils at the Jariin, an hS
made all his studies suhservient to it Whom
he made wafer. color sketches of the ora
trees and dark woodland bottoms al Foa-
talnebleu, there were tigreSSeS that stake
Tor him IN the shadows, great pytheOnS that
t"iHeN spout inelr trunks. and slender deer
that fitted beneath their branches These
water colors haS rare charm of their own
that nothing can efface, and many of his
brother artists have wished he had oftaDar
painted them. They had ali learned 10
revere Barge. Jerome came 10 him for
his lion in the Martyrs" The animal
is just loosed from his cell and emerEeS
into The glare and sunlight of the vast am
phltheater with its countless thousands and
the pomp and pageant OF a Roman holiday
IL was Barye who made him blink and pause
before that strange, unwonted spectacle.
Any one else would have made him spring
upon his Christian prey. Barge leaves 10
has memory many monuments that he
bullded himself 1t is not thirty years since
That he sold his casts almost, one might
say, as does an Italian who hawks mis-
clumsy images on a board, but since
mat his genius has been recognizei
Who that sees the walking lion of the
Tutleries or the lions of the Column of Julv
can forget Barge. He went TO see the two
bullet-holes that the Commune made, and
ne smiled as he said they needed no mend
ing. Probably the last collection OF his work
that there is in existence is In the United
Corcoran Gallery of Art lie made n
for his friend, Mr.. William T. Wal
ters, one OF the trustees. who, but for his
aid, could not have secured il. 1t would
not be easy TO say what its value is now
The "Theseus and the Curtain" is among
its treasures. This is one of his most fm7
pOrtant works, and one which he himself
dearly priced. The Tiger Hunt in the Pun
jab, which he did for the Duke OF Orleans
is in this country. 1t is i'm the Walters GAL
ley at Baltimore and has no duplicate in
existence. Barge modelled IL in wax. Mr.
Taylor Johnson has some exquisite Rarye
bronzeS. Barge was already an old man
Had he lived until September oath he would
he never became rich. Like AgasSiz, he used
TO say he had no time,