Morning journal and courier., 1891-03-26
No. 73

successive times the same picture, the first time under the title of ''The Passage of the Red Sea- the second time under the name of ''The Passage of the Beresina,r and, as it was still refused, he sent it back the next year designated ''The Passage of the Panoramas.-
 M. Chauchard has, in truth, proved him ssif most generous amateur of art. The sum of seven hundred and fifty thousand francs he has paid for ''The Angelus" rep resents, at the usual commercial rates of tour per cent, daily income of ninety francs. If NJ Chauchard should live un- nl the consummation of the ages, it will cost him ninety francs a day to look at his picture. There will doubtless be many days when he will not look at it at all, and only others when he passes through his superb gallery. This might indeed be called dearly bought glance.
 In considering this rather fictitious en- thusiasm, the memory of poor Millet's hard life suggests itself how he WAS mis- understood, laughed at by the general pub lie, not then so we'll educated in art as it Is at the present day-while other artists. upheld by fashion, received blind applause and universal praise. An artist must ae- cept such disappointments. A new form Of art does not find devotees at once. The public must get accustomed to it. tis study on initiation.
 One of Michael Angelo's first statues was bought for twelve ducats. In order to receive better remuneration for his tal- ent he made a Sleeping Cupid" which he buried. It was discovered by chance It can be imagined that the chance WAS guided by him. They were in raptures over the beauty of the work, taken for an antique, and they paid two hundred du- cats to the discoverer of the statue.
 Dornenichino only received one hundred and fifty francs for his 'tCommunion of Saint Jerome;" twice the price was paid short time after for a copy of this chef de oeuvre made by one of his pupils POus- sin, whose bust ornaments the entrance to the Ecole des Beaur Arts. sold his pictures for eight francs when he was young He associated himself with painter better known to picture dealers than he WAS him. self, who received three times more money for the copies he pilfered and made of Poussin's work
 Contemporaries are often unjust. gene rally through ignorance. Louis XIV thought he had paid Puget in a royal man ner for his "Andromeda," with fifteen thousand francs. The artist had spent that much for the marble and its transpor- tation. The Marriage of Cana,'' at the Louvre, was originally sold for four hun uAS0 AionSs- NSESESAOS S ohAul JSIOl1c- on which he worked six months, was bought for five hundred and fifty francs. His Might" for four hundred and eighty In ten years this great master only made nine thousand eight hundred and sixty four francs. It does not take longer at present for fashionable portrait painter to make enough to have his hotel on the Avenue de Villiers
 The Queen Regent of Holland, Marie of Austria, thought herself most generous in paying the artist, Bernard orley, twenty eight or thirty francs apiece for the DOT traits he painted of her fascinating self: it is the price to-day of photograph al q fashionable photographers. Artists for merly were not very eIacting on the whole. Jacopo da Pontormo. having made the portrait of the Duke of Medici, the latter asked him what he desired as his -ecompense. Pontormo asked for enough to get his cloak out of pawn.