Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-10
A RIVAL ART SHOW.
The Champs de Mars. Exhibition in
Paris to Open This Week.
SEVERAL REMARKABLE PICTURES.
Modern Parisians as Characters in q Scrip
tural Painting.
A FEW AMERICAN ARTISTS EXHIBIT

PARIS, May.9.-On Thursday the Ma.
tional Fine Arts Society, the formidable
rival of the old Champs Elysee Salon, in
vites Parisians to the vanishing day cere-
mony, and on Friday the paying public
will be admitted. NJ. Dnbufe, whose father
and grandfather before him we're well
known artists, and whose exhibit at the
present salon is one OF the finest there, has
had charge of the preparations of the gal
leries this year. Although the "last
touches" have not yet been given, enough
has been done to show that the Champs de
Mars will be more artistically arranged this
year than last, and will again surpass in
neatness, harmony and good taste the ex-
ternal arrangements of the Palais de
PIndustrie. The space occupied this year
is nearly twice as large As last year. p,
Vastly Enlarged This Year.
"This does not look very much as il we
were going. back to the old salon." re-
marked NJ. Dubufe, referring to this en-
largement. Last year our. receipts were
100000 francs and our expenses 14O, 900,
leaving 10000 profits, which we have spent
every reason to suppose that our receipts
will be still larger this year. But our
financial success is not the only reason why
feel confident that this salon is perma-
nent institution. 1t is to the benefit of art
that there are two salons, and every artist
and lover of art should be happy that they
both exist and both flourish" +"
Of the French artists, Puvis de Chavan-
mes, President of the society, exhibits
large panel intended for the Paris Hotel de
Vile, entitled "Summer." The foreground
shows women bathing in summing stream,
on the opposite bank of which some hay
makers are loading wagon. Besides this
important painting, he shows two pictures
destined for the Ceramic Museum at Rouen.
A scriptural subjec. Modernly Treated.
In the Salon. Bleu the ceiling is decorated
by Gerveux's principal exhibit, "Music,"
destined for the Hotel de Vile. It repre-
sents musical arts from the earliest time to
the present day.
Jean Beraud, whose Monte Carlo" was
great success last year, exhibits most
extraordinary picture. It is called xThe
Feast at the House of Simon the Pharisee,"
and bears this quotation from st. LukeS
Gospel: Wherefore, say unto thee, her
sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she
loved much; but'to whom little is forgiven,
the same loveth little" The picture repre-
sents Madeline at the feet of Jesus, who is.
surrounded by skepticai Pharisees. ButM.
Beraud's treatment of this Scriptural sub
ject is more than modern, and will certainly
cause great surprise. His supper room is a
modern Partisan dining room; his Madeline.
is Partisan lady in ball dress; his Phar-
lsees are modern scientists, judges, bankers,
society men, etc., and are portraits of
Parisian celebrities, which, if not faithful
likenesses in every detail, are, at any rate,
recognizable.
The Department of Sculptures
Last year the sculpture exhibit was weak
as far as quantity was concerned. This year
the number of sculptors is much larger and
their work quite as good as last year.
The Ame1icsns who exhibit at the Champ
de Mars are small and select body. Among
them are Carl Melchars, who sends one Of
his admirable Dutch interiors, a choir of
girls being trained by the old church
The effect is excellent. GAP.
Healy, the veteran American artist, who
is now in the United States, has life-siss
portrait of the Due D. Aumale, painted at
William T. Dannat, of New
York, societary OF the society, exhibits
three portra its-those Of "Miss L. H."
Miss r. H, and "Miss l.. T." and three
other canvssses, 'Un Guerrillere," or
'JManuels, u Spanish head, and
two Spanish women, and man reading
letter by candle-light. Alexander HaTri.
son, also 2 societary, sends, though not in
Paris, ix pictures. most of them being