Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-29
THE PARIS SALOy.
SOMETHING ABOUT THE FRENCH ART
EXHIBITION.
Some Prominent People-Madam Adam
Bernhardt-A Romantic Case
Dumas Daughter.

Some Prominent People Adam
Bernhardt-A Romantic Case
Dumas Daughter.
PARIS, May l, 1880
To-day the doors of the salon are opened
to the public. Yesterday was vanishing
day, when the artists were admitted tc
varnish their pictures. The artists years
ago began by inviting friends to accompany
them on this occasion, which was consid.
cred a great privilege, and it has become
the fashion to invite all gems de iettreS and
important personages to attend this re.
union. Only those possessing cards are add
mitted, and it is perhaps needless to add
that the greater portion Of the visitors are
glad to avail themselves of this oppor-
tunity for the purpose of seeing collected in
one assembly all the talent and genius OF
France. The doors were opened at 6
o'clock in the morning, and all artists
fastened to finish with their pictures be.
fore the crowd should arrive. At 2 o'clock
the circulation was exceedingly difficult,
for the crowd amounted to about three
thousand persons, and what with straining
the eyes, with the heat and dust, many a
visitor returned to his home with raging
headache.
THE ELEGANT THING
IT. do ~, 4b;s oooo,;o,, - -. l,o
salon at nine or ten o'clock in the morning,
and at ROOM time breakfast at the restau-
rant adjoined, the proprietor of which, by
the way, takes ample advantage of the
custom and forces his fashionable clients to
pay his royal prices. After breakfast one
promenades through the halls again until
the moment of closure Others breakfast
at home at ten o'clock and remain at the
salon until four or later, and others break
fast at eleven or twelve, the usual hour,
and devote the afternoon to admiring the
pictures if not talking to friends, for the
whole affair seems social gathering, and
more time is spent in friendly greetings
and conversation than in art criticism.
Among the illustrious persons present we
reau, Mrs. Palmaroli and Carolas Duran,
and other artists of course. Mr.. de Girar-
din we saw promenading with Madam
Adam on his arm, his hand stiffly spread
upon his breast, and his little body
stretched up as though it would be several
inches taller, SO as to render himself wor-
thy the honor he enjoyed. Madam Adam
was dressed in most conspicuous toilette.
composed of a garnet colored satin dress and
hat with feathers to match. Madame Adam
is perhaps the only respectable French
woman who would dare to appear in a SIM
liar gathering in such gay costume, but
she considered herself privileged on account
of her talent and enviable position. She
was followed by quite a
TRAIN OF ADMIRERS, @
Who merely trod in her footsteps like fas-
cinated and humble beings. l also saw
Sarah Bernhardt on the arm of fine
looking artist, Mr. Clairin, the same who
illustrated her absurd book, titled
L'histoire dune Chaise. She was accom-
panied by her son, and also followed by a
train OF admirers. Her hair was dyed red,
with two curls down her back, as though
she were not sufficiently eccentric without
descending to anything so common. She
was dressed very simply in black CO.'S
tune in fact she is little DESTROYS of at
tracing attention through the richness of
her toilette since it is next week that her
case comes up in Court, and it is 300, 600
francs instead of 100000 francs for which
the company of the Theatre Francois sue
her. She, 1t seems, is not in an enviable
situation. She has no positive en-
gagement at present, is to be sued
for three hundred thousand francs,
and is actually in debt for 200, :
coo francs, so costly are marble and
paints and feminine caprices. More than
usual excitement and interest have been
manifested in regard to the salon this year,
even more than formerly, for the reason
that radical changes have been effected al
though not those at first supposed. Instead
of placing all the landscapes in one room,
the figures in another and so on, as Mr.
Turquet, the Sous SecTetdrie aur Beaur-
ArtS, was accused of wishing to do, all
pictures marked "Hors concouys, that is
the pictures of those artists who had OBJ
tanned a certain number of prizes and were
no longer to enter the list of competitors
except for the medaille d'honneur, were
placed together; all the pictures of those
artists who had obtained one prize, or per-
haps two third.class prizes, and whose
pictures were marked q Exempt" that is,
exempt from passing before the jury for
admittance, occupied another portion of
the hall together. Then came the pictures
of artists who had received no prizes, then
were all the pictures of foreigners collected
in special halls. This arrangement GER
tainly possesses many conveniences, but it
raised many objections on the part OF some
artists. In the first place, there is quite
war raging between the old school, now
called classical, at the head of which to-day
stand Bougoureau, Cabanel, Gerome, Lee
fevre and so on, and
THE NEW SCHOOL
Verging on naturalism, and at the head OF
which stand Carolus Duran and others.
The members OF the classical school for
years have been constantly reelected