The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-06-21
HAWAIrS WONDER.
Jules Tavenier's Great Panorama of
KiIauea.

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KiIauea.
This is the title by which this work OF
art is known and under which it is copy
riehted, a short history of this painting
and what has become of it may be OF IN
terest to the public, and in order to give
this We will have to mention few of the
artists traits which strongly impressed
the writer during a business acqualnt-
ance of three years and which may be OF
interest also. Work commenced on this
picture three years ago in Hllo, Hawai-.
But he had been talking about work OF
! this kind from the time of his first visit
to Kilauea perhaps year previous. de !
was a very quick workman and COM
pleted the painting in three months. 1t
was not steady work with him, that was
apparently impossible, but he worked
hard and enthusiastically and seemed
Indifferent to the hour of day or night,
when his conceptions, ideas, ideals, and
mind pictures had been transferred to
the canvas, and others must be thought
out and arranged before the work could
proceed. He knew just what he was
going to do before he put his brush to
the canvas and worked with feverish
haste fearing perhaps that something
might escape him before it was put IN
D shape favored by his mastery hand.
I Never before did the writer realize SO
fully that painting is more an effort OF
the brain than the fingers. With hlm
t their execution seemed to be OF second
h ary consideration of which he judged as
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a change it would be oftener one OF color
It than of design or figure. This seemed
to be the secret of his rapid execution
) and explains how so great work was
n painted by our artist in so short time,
q when YOU consider that this painting
takes in all points of the compass from
y the center of the basin of Kllauea to It's
TO banks and the top of Mauna Loa. Not the
: minutest detail neglected in the whole
10 sweep of the horizon and then with
I'd drawing with the eye you contemplate
g. the eternal fires of Pele in the
foreground. We cannot repress the
y exclamation land why should we
i'll that it is wonderful, beautiful, grand
20 the frailties of human nature arr
70 forgotten and we thank our maker tn
or Great ARTIST that he did bestow OF
Of. human hand the talent to produce sucl
I,o a work and put in his heart the ambition
n0 to spend SO much time in such an on
an of the way place as the Volcano OF n
and IL feet high, its actual cost outsld
49, of the artists time was $4,000
lc- was painted for exhibition, which e1
49,, plains the writer's interest in it in do
lars and cents, after being duly admire
is in Hilo, it was brought to this city an
ye: the artist was thoroughly satisfied wit
oh the reception it received by the either
vi and press, nevertheless, it was final
rd, cial failure for the stand in the center
no. the picture was small and hot. II
% artist was not satisfied with it, he wishe
% to paint a larger and better one ar
ale destroy this, it was then that the writ
took it to the States, had it Photographic
. and copyrighted at Washington, Sc
the East and slowed away in garnet In tt
,Ols State of Maine where it remains; from
49, can be produced as many PanOramas
YOU want of any size, and one OF the
and would indirectly benefit every ma
ere woman and child in this kingdom, WIN
90 placed on exhibition in any part OF t
% world, it would not be hampered in a
mol manner by its present owners we
,l. pect our present outlay to be refund
and a per cent. of the gate money
uct- lowed by Copyrighted Law in
fig States. While in San Francisco, we II
the manager OF the Panorama OF
Ill d Battle of Waterloo, Mr.. Pisen, tn
painting was hung in a building tt
de- cost them $4,000, they paid $500
month for ground rent, and they h
d 10 made net profit of 100000 in less til
ion, three years. Jules Tavenier could
4bo any work on that canvas, Mr.. Pisen g;
VIC him very high reputation as an art
the John D. Spreckels also expressed
his. strong desire to see the picture hu
H.: There was two reasons why it was
Aoe hung. One was, Tavenier objected tc
n OF Every one knows that he was very
.los- sative of his reputation as an artist.
n was morbidly afraid that the Panora
call of Kilauea might be copied and all
that fruits of his labor lost. We know
it has an error in the perspective in
o. Standing thirty feet from the canvas
nds, looks better than from the stand or
Tn the distance The fault was matt
one in the first Cyclorama of this sub
olP- ever painted and could be easily recti
lblic in copying. The other reason it
N in not hung was want of funds. Ii
sugar mill is required to take off {
state of cane 100000 is chucked up at o.
We Then why not forward this enterI
- ~ which will bring both profit and he
10 oO to this country and her citizens. !
able it will be done, sometime, somehow
years self-evident. For any further particu
path 1 H9wa;ian Panorama ComDanv.