New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-03-22
TWO FAMOUS ARTISTS.
EXHIBITIONS OF THEIR WORKS N PARIS.

frgoA REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRIBUNE.l
PARIS, ala.Su U.
Art exhibitions crop up on all sides. President
Grevy has opened two very interesting retrospective
exhibitions at the Cere.e de la IIbrarIe he pub
fishers and booksellers club and at the Ecols des
Beaux Arts. At the former are to be
seen the sketches. drawings, wateI-color
paintings engravIngs, and Illustrated works
of Gustave Doye The show at the Fine Arts
School contains 4S2 paintings. studies and
sketches fraginentary and other. OF Eugene
Delacrolx.
The Cercle de Ia Lihrarie was founded within
this decade by the Paris booksellers and publish
ers, who form wealthy body. One ascends by
stone stairs shaped in horseshoe fash
ion to the saloons where the Dore pictures
arc on view. Tne variesy of subjects which are
treated is astonishing How one small brain could
evolve such quantity of etchings, drawings,
paintings engravngs and sOon 1t is hard to realize.
It is calculated that there must be at least 10000
WORKS OF different kinds in the world of Gustave
Dore-a reason, perhaps. why so few OF them are OF
the hi CHEST order. None of the large other oil
paintings which he executed aie exhibited The
dominant quafIty of those which are there, and
NAV venture TO add those which are not. is riytu-
oste Dore was above all things vir-
tuoso. He chiefly relied upon his mental
VISION aud took NO hard grip Of
itself to the mind through the eye. Eng
lish fog in some degree toned down tho
effulgence of his vision. At tae age of hvo-and-
twenty Gustave Dore attempted to illustrate Dante,
and between that age and thirty he was busy IN
irving 10 give pictorial forms TO Rabelais and Bal
zae One fancies that the originals
never lived, but were creatures of the ARTISTS
IMAGINATION. One even gets this impress
son from the portrait Of his mohsr and Of the old
nurse OF the painter to whom he lett an annuity
and tae rIg GIT to inhabt for life an attic in the
house that be bought the Rue Grenelle, st. Ger
main, TO reside in. The former has eerie leOk.
She is very ike H. Isaac Perere, u great nnanc er
of the second Empire, aud has black eyes intensely
keen. sceainq and yet not unpleasant. She and
her artist-sOn were in the closest sympathy
| from his childhood 10 the day OF her Death am
told that she came Of a race OF goldsinitiis Ihls
| would point to a Jewish ancestry. The Old nurse
resembles her and has the Of beDeIeent witch.
| Was size a humble cousin vi tue o. lazy, or AZ
| tacbed TO her merely by tribal link . Perhaps
both II is vossible--,ray, probatie-th.t Gustave
| Dor6s facility designer was derived from sone
mothers side OF the house. In strasburg
| and the Old German towns decoratlvs art
| assumed the most fantastic forms and showed
prodIgious fertility OF invention. Albert DuIer
| in ms paintings was ralise But
| what creator he was, when he executed designs
| for gold and silver cups shleldS and vases lie
was master of his brain, and coudeyoke at VII aud
| lay when he pleased the images that he raised l
donot If iustave bore could do tiis. he was like
a man in a state of insomnia, who Is pc sessed by
the ideas that up in bis bead. Tins teeniug
eefebratIon became. to judge from fhe latter-day
pictures at the Booksellers club. a maiady. what
was morbid III 1t eDsitird bv his III ut anbi-
ton to RANK with the great painters He Used up his
energy and spent large sums Of money. 10
ADgeio attained IN the Sistlue Chapel:
The entrance of Christ INTO Jerusalem" and
Christ before Plate" fruits of III, ubiiIOn.
Designs OF them are exh b. ted at the Boulevard
ST. German, and no more sur one than Renal SINCE
ornamental pain ing alive with grIfins. slreIs aud
amoTetti Gustave Dure FEVER felt he spirit OF any
one or ANYTHING. As he became rich and celebrated
when he was scarcely 0u6 0t bis teens, he was not
acquainted With the sorrows involved in struggle
for existence. He lived IN a giy Bohemian sort OF
way. HI. mother had . lively disposition and en-
joyed fddhng aud dancing RS much as he
did Six months before he died he was
painfully surprised to realize that be aha nst
old bachelor and that It WAS rather late foI hiin TO
marry Ihose whom ne oves sne ss
Of poverty He prevente hun from ranking among
the greatest painters 1T mis- century;
WHAT contrast betweeI Doro and Deiacroix. who
was rad u obtain $40 francs tor ILLS Martyr ION
OF ST. Sebastian" aud was never able 10 make both
ends meet in comfor able way 70 one OK the 'et-
he aays In spea of the opposition AZ met with
and the hatred with which he Was pursned because
1 realize more and more ioree OF that saving,
Ny kingdom is not Of TINS world No I'M iator
treads on q smooth road. Ills reward lies In the
enjoyment that be derives FROM sense of d dicul-
ties overcome and the approval OF conscience.
can't run against what feel TO be tue tguth, and
must affirm my right to undergraduates though !
we're 10 be reduced TO beggary for dong hat
excite the laughter of most OF the art critics ana
amateurs, ] we'll know; But ! shoud aesp,se ny,
lean Ggoux one of his friends. wrste 10 hun TO
fec tate aim on beng left u small annuity. 10 his
congratulations Delacroix answered. " do truly
dsen INV self fortunate. TINS legacy relieves me
from the dread of some day being obliged to earn
! hose capital works of Delacrsix-" Trajan.'
1.-THE Genius of Greece Oh tho Ruias OF Msss'ion.
CHI and >larno Faiero ARE not eX aibited as
the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Blu. the show there pre-
sents one very original and interesting feature,
namely the abundant repetitions Of waat !
may be allos ca d,.. g oo.s tba, we're he
finished. but fully achieved. Although Delacrolx
coats of il, he never elaborated highly. Ills
shadows are very boldly done. very traasparent
and warm and not ,heky pa mt d. issrS
paius 1.-THE subject of which was taken from the
drama by Byron-wbich IS one OF the hnes' things
Grisntai carpet. and nothing could be
more sSperb dramatic No painter came sr 81 near
having imagined the scens IN the openine ot
"NarInion,' of the tournament and the sleGe OK
the cas IN IN ana IN %
all alive. There is an Intensity Of action in by
works, great ID small, which places him above all
are admirable in their health. strength and and
beauty. Tho horses apd the hons ana
tigers in the pictures he did In Algeria are enough
10 gain for him immortal renown As porirsitist
he had no superior. bur he did not ofien 90 por.
traits, There are three OF himself, He has in them
the face OF vulgar freshman, with dark complex
Ion. tnrnedu up nose wide and rather coar.e mouth.
black Observaut eyes and very prominent browa
Curran the orator. had JUST such . physiognomy.
There are many frsgmsngary studies which show
the infinite trouble he was ct In turning down work
~ much pains a. Msisonisr bat for tho pur..
ross Of beng able 20 ebey his tsmpcrnnont
IN aashing alonG. We 20 ~ ~ faster" y once
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