The sun., 1883-09-30
PARTISAN ART NOTES
The New Official Snlon-Meissonter's New
Plctures-Tha. American Artists.

PARTISAN ART NOTES
The New Oniciai snion-Meissonier's New
Plctures-The American Artists.
PARIS, Sept. 17-Paris is just now in
transition season. The social unties that 60
to make up the brilliant and eternally amusing
ensemble Of tom Paris. of the all Paris. thai
one finds at the opera and the Francais on
fashionable nights. on the race course at Long.
champs in the Bois do Boulogne in the after
noon. at the fetes and worldly meeting places,
the marriages and the funerals the flower
shows and the picture exhibitions; the ali
Paris. whose sayings and doings whose whims
and oddities. whose enthusasms and whose
crazcs have constantly Interested the civilized
world during tho past four centuries the
social unitics Of the tom Paris tina,
makes and unmakes worldwide regulations
are still scattered far and wide ut the seasils
or among the mountains. or are visible here
simply as birds Of passage. resting day or two
Oh their journey between tho yellow sands and
the golden copses Of some chateau where the
rartridges and pheasants and hares are await.
ing the honor OF being shot by distinguished
sportsmen. and where the Partisan eityat,tei
are developing new graces ia their role oi
chateaines; And SO it happened that varnish.
ing day NJ theSalOn last Friday was not ut all
lis brilliant ceremony IL usually is.
INC Salon in September you will ask. what
Ioes lnat mean III means that in these modern
days the painter is one Of the happiest of mon.
The painter, the rapm Of the novels of Balzac
q Pau! dc Kock. and Of lTurger the eccentric
Bohemian who lived in, +" garret and prided
lormess cap and threadbare velvet Jacket is
Iucntly, figures as the hero of a drama or a
i,o: novei: he Is considered an eligible and de-
srable mattel, for richly lowered madens; he
las las il lhS finest 9anrsls 4 Paris: ths Govern
nIl 4 mi Il, do
ing him honor aud iIling his purse: and II II tho tho
painters COMPLAIN of being badly treated
and the public set about seeking how to rem
eedy tho injustice. Hence. besides the regular
., II will bo remembered that since isso 3 the
isfy the artists, has abandoned the material
anu artlstle management of the annual Salons
to the artists themselves who have formed
Inp themselves into demqcratc corporation, un
fas. The admission Of pictures and the award
Ing Of medals and recompenses are entirely in
dasfs Of se fS Ss Ssas saah a9ns nsa e
certain travelling scholarships. So far so good.
rgmd neie are the ss rsti en0ys
But in country like France D in whose Vi oe eXst St
state can hardly entirely dsnterest s f9e Itself In IN
artistic questions. and the artists on their Side
ta senors II not ar the IN.
stance would be in n bad way If the State did
nv DhS iHcil liSl WoTkS ana give them tho
marble to work upon tho frescoes Of the Pan.
nnd tne2d an hnd the deSorat3n Of great monuments
Of the State; the Organization Of museums a1d
schools Of art is the business of the State. Il
has eTb,dan both the in rsbf short and that the state
intervene; and, SO. while i giving i the a' art.
lists perfect liberty to organize as they
Its Intention Of organizing at fixed intervals an
eSIhioition eSIa, E, On its own account an official and
ffluny WAS the first official nyhibitin,
this new regime. Hencelorward every five
YEA years besides the usual annual Salon the role
and wide publicity when is the first condition
OF the artists career, and the foundation of ali
An An official Salon which shall show the state OF
aI, pr,ehch art, and in which tho Governments oi
Of ofher hni nations VIII be invited 70 see that the a
and ana adequately represented. We shall thus
work n OF each nation, and enabling US to note
anu an. eiosmpare tho progress and tendencies of
lhe dli1crent schools OF national art
such is the programme of the future Tho
present exhibition, having been organized
S3eTaat Tiah tba aa;s,y somewhat Tentatively and
aoVei move attempt Is far from realizing this pro-
Glbimlmie, Mbicl i on ana that too for various reasons
Dnt among which the principal are that new
w9iks Hr,il, are an innitesimal minority that tho
rtls.s an have my, not made special efforts in view Of
J. u hnu that the majority Of works exhibited ars
sti too fresh in our memories to be- seen nratn
Hhy Nv, ysy y ssanadsiacti0n snd To PVT the matter
known, and very many are pictures that The
Pnniic saw rs recently as al the Salon Of last
Exyyo;s Eay; HOY, M,oweNyer In spite of shortcomngs the
1eresting and Important exhibition, and ID Worthy St
Oh reorahan m9re than "a pa, passing notice, ,,,,,,
II Il ,;,p open TO the works OF French and foreign
iiIVing artists. executed since May l. 1878 in tho
SsaTHhfs Thc
@phihtihgs PUN ,exhiblted Is III, representing the
work OF 372 painters: there are 297 pieces Of
sculpture, representing the work Of l5l artists.
Tor no limit was put tothe number Both paint
lhGs l,Es and sculpture are exhibited in modest,
on the eye line; the statuary is arranged In the
garden, which is adorned with the finest Sjvres
splendid tapestries from the Garde Meuble. In
iacl me Parisians have never seen a Salon so
snlendihy sII arranged. The l2l pieces of tapes,
catalogue II, published describing them while
some sin WIS who depreciatc the Exposition, M;
TAPESTRIES TO be n cruel Joke on the part OF he
state 2t he expense Of the artists
Iruly These tnpestrtes arc splendid; they arc
stphe ol the yery nnest pieces manufactured at
tho Gobelins in tho seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries Tor the royal PALACES; immense pic,
tender hued silks from the designs Of painters
ilke Mlgnard; Oh. lie Brun. Van der Meulen,
\, m1si y oi2yGe ha6ens Giuio Romano laphael
piece surrounded with a border d the richest
EihS P, promenade in tho Palais do i,Indusuio
py lhe conlemplation OF these splendid lnOnu-
as a as ao MSsS r Of the %s
artists OF, the day devoted the best OF their
nnsita;w Ialsiht; whea one sees these grandiose com.
groups. this inexhaustIble invention In de-
tai,sl the splendid results that contrbu;ed 80
Of habltations,. one can Scarcely help looking
saLp hoipe QeKree OF contempt on the