The record-union., 1891-02-08
ART NOTES.

Madame Leon Bertaux, President of
the Association OF Women Painters and
Sculptors, is trying hard to obtain the adj
mission OF female students to the classes
and privileges of the Ecole des Beaux-
Arts, in Paris.
The Boston Art Club had better restrict
the circulation of their tickets if they
nave found 1t necessary to print in their
catalogue, Visitors are cautioned against
touching frames or pictures" A man
VINO Will finger canvas ought at once
TO be crossed from an artists list.
a new art journal in Paris, which giyes
attention to art in America as well. is
called T. Art dons les Deur Mondes. It
is illustrated with choice engravings, the
articles are written with ability and JUS
tlce, and 1t is especially rich in inforIna-
tlon OF the modern painters of Europe.
Ii is published weekly by j. Rouam 81
Co. IA Rue de Helde, and the New York
ONCE is at 3l5 Fifth avenue, where sam
pie copies may be obtained and subscrip-
tons made.
Here is an interesting item taken from
the Statdao:, This years budget of the
Minister OF Fine Arts in France amounts
to about s., 400 900. Compared with our
American budget, the United States Lii
brary Committee, who have charge of the
purchase of works of art, the amount is
enormous. We expend annually, for art
(?l, on an average, about $10,0OOEthe fig
ures, dare say, are high. That is the
way we encourage art, The artist who
can paint the perspective of our National
School OF Art must use a volt meter to
prevent the sensitive polarization of the
diminishing point.
Among the works of art which have
recently arrived in New York from
Europe, are several of the Paris Salon
pictures of Leslie Giffen caldwell, one
/ of the most promising members of the
colony of American artists on the banks
OF the Seine. Considerable cleverness is
displayed in his Portrait de M, de c.
which is remarkable for the excellence of
It's coloring and for its powerful delinea-
ton OF the features of the subject. Equally
worthy of commentator is his charming
view OF coast scenery near Havre, paint
ing of much delicacy of tone and warmth
of treatment. OF the three Salon pastels,
that representing pretty little Japanese
Musme is undoubtedly the most attrac-
tive and the happiest in its execution.
The hands of the old woman knitting a
stocking IN the large oil painting, entitled
'.VerS la fin," are delineated with rare
skill and strength. Mr.. Cauldwelps work
is by no means unknown on this side of
the Atlantic, for several of his paintings,
notably a delightful little oil sketch en-
titled IA Tidal River" have occupied
prominent places on the walls of the art
exhibitions in this city, as well as in
Philadelphia and Boston.
Jean Louis Meissonier, the illustrious
French painter, is dead. M. Meissonier
was born of humble parents at Lyons on
February 81, 1915, and was pupil Of
Leon Cogniot. After avoyage to Italy he
returned to Paris and devoted himself to
a style of painting until then entirely ne
elected in France-the painting of genre
pictures, most of which represented but
one figure. For five or six years he UNI
derwent great trials and sufferings, dur
ing which he was willing to do any ar
tistic work that came in his way. Mean
while he labored diligently at his own
conceptions, executing them with Flem-
ish carefulness of detail and exquisite
finish, which has since become his best
known characteristic. 1.-THE Chess
Player" in 1886, ended his period of want,
after which he enjoyed a worldwide
celebrity. The episode of his portrait of
Mrs. Mackay, for which that lady paid
Sl5, 600 and destroyed, is still fresh in the
public mind. Personally Meissonier was
not popular with either artists or the
public. Vain and irascible to the last de-
gree, he was engaged in more than one
quarrel with wealthy and distinguished
patrons, to which the attention of the
whole polite world was attracted. He
was accused of treating ladies who were
his patrons with most un-Frenchlike in
ciyiiity.