Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-26
VISIONS OF BEAUTY
Seen at the New Rival of the Champs
EIysees French Salon.
AMERICAN ARTISTS ARE THERE
Every Great City in the New World
Contributes Treasures.
SCULPTURE AN IMPORTANT FEATURE

next month, has had at least one good enec
| on the old Champs Elysees salon-it ha
| caused the Society of French Artists to pay
more attention to the aesthetic appearance Q
| the exhibition rooms in the Palaise de In
dustrie, which, until this year. has presented
pretty shabby interior. A pretty goot
idea can be obtained of what the coming
| salon will be from these notes.
William Bougureau's "Cupid in Storm,
L'Amour Mouille. is said by his friends tc
| be the best picture he has ever painted. 1
! depicts love as child shivering in the rair
under a group of trees, its arms claspec
round its neck, its wings drawn over it
body. and with one foot resting on tht
other. Its darts and bow have
fallen to the ground. This artists othel
| exhibit is ''The First Jewel" A skin.girt
hunter is seated on a large stone under some
cherry trees with his left arm around the
whom he is offering a handful of cherries
She has already placed an earring OF cher.
ries in her right ear, and, with both hands,
is putting another in the left ear.
Some Works of French Artists.
Benjaman Constans shows two portraits
Mr.. Alexander. of New York, and that OF
his wife. Both are remarkable works.
Gerome's "Crouching Lion" is vivid
picture of Arabian desert scenery, with q
lion preparing to make his spring from some
high rocks. His view OF Cairo" depicts
an endless vista of roof and mosquitoes. en-
yeloped in the clear atmosphere peculiar to
oriental cities. In the section reserved to
sculpture Gerome exhibits "Beatitude," a
life size lion in bronze, resting on his
Launches, with a sleepy expression on his
lace. -
Mr.. Cormon shows an oriental scene taken
from the Arabian Nights. Nourredin-Ali
is surrounded by a number of women actors.
A portrait of the Artist Gerome in his work.
ing costume is Mr.. Cormon's second picture.
Mr.. Maignan shows "a Sirens Sleeping
Place" picture of the same kind as his
"Birth of the Pearl" 1t represents a siren
at the bottom of the sea amid marine
plants and animals
NJ. Jules Monge sends a portrait. three
quarter length, of Theodore Tilton, who is
represented standing.
Pictures of Norwegian Scenery.
Grimelund, the Norwegian landscape
painter, shows two views OF the celebrated
Hardanger Fjord, "At the Entrance Of
Hardanger Fjord," ana ga Summer Even
ing in Norway"
Munckacsy exhibits "The Incorrigibla"
and the portrait of Mrs. Blumenthal, of New
York. 1.-The Incorrigible" gives view of
Hungarian ale fhouse, in which, after
night of carousal, man is seated in mel
ancholy mood, listening to the music of
some Tziganes, whom he has ordered to play.
Pierre de Bengy exhibits a life-like por-
trait of the painter, Lumanais, whose pupil
he was, "The result of Treachery," wherein
group of Dominican monks are seen stand
ing around the body of young man dis
covered wounded in wood, while one of
their number is trying to ascertain whether
the heart still beats; and "A Legend of
Britanny," passionate hunter and his
bounds rushing heedlessly past priest who
is carrying the viaricum to dying man.
Jules Breton sends 1.-THE Pardon of Ker-
goat" a crowd of persons in varied
costumes entering church in the midst Of
woods IN Britanny.
Laurens Historical Pictures.
J. Laurens exhibited picture entitled
''The Steel Roof" La Voute d'Acier), and
represents the visit OF Louis XVIII. to
Bartel Vile. On the steps of the wide
staircase leading into the Hotel de Vile are
seen the deputies OF various districts,
dressed in black. at the foot of the staircase
Bailly, the new Mayor of Paris, with La
fayette at his side, is handing to the King
a cockade decked with the blue and red
colors of the CITY.
Mr.. Franc-Lamy exhibits panel en-.
titled "Flowery Spring." companion to
his "a Summers Dream" which was
awarded a medal at last years salon.
In the department of sculpture Etienne
Leroux has two large plaster casts repre-
senting Commerce and Industry. Bartholdi
exhibits two marble groups, symbolic of
Alsace and Lorraine. Barrias shows a
marble statute of Mozart as child Of g.
Among the American artists, c. Hobart
Strickland sends only one picture to the
salon this year-the portrait of lady in
black satin gown against background of
red plush. Miss Elizabeth Jane Gardner,
of New Hampshire, exhibits "Soap
Bubbles,"a a large oil painting. It repre-
sents two young girls and an older sister
blowing soap bubbles from a clay pipe at
bought by wealthy English connoisseur.
Works of Other American Artists.
Henry Mosler figures to advantage, as
usual, with "Good Advice" The can
vas represents an old woman admon-
ishing a young girl. Both are seated
on the outskirts of village, which is illu
mined by the rays of the setting sun. The
figures are in bold contrast and relief being
in shadow, asAis also the entire foreground.
Miss Anna E. Kumpke, of San Fran
cisco. is represented by the dream, I'm
Oils" and the portrait OF a lady. In the
Ii l.
embroidering priestly vestments near
window, through which, in the background,
is cathedral church. The subject is from
Zola's novel, :'The Dream" lie Reve).
Miss Klumpke will open q studio in Boston
in the autumn.
William Henry Howe has two canvases-
ga Milking Scene in Holland" and
"Norman Bull" both being powerful re-
productions of animal life. Charles Heberer,
of St. Louis, exhibits informing in the
Orchard, and fellow picture. Evening in
the Orchard" two good landscapes in oils,
with animals and fruit trees.
Original Studies in Landscapes.
Robert w. Vonnah, of Hartford, has
dazzling landscape entitled Gathering
Poppies." 1t is daring and praiseworthy
effort. The entire foreground is field of
fiery red poppies, with four figures, one of
whom-a girl pIucking the fowers--glves
its name to the picture. The whole is suf-
fused with a midsummer gray lilaR film,
which contrasts with the gorgeousnesy of the
flowers.
Clarence Bartlett, of Cincinnati, contrib
utes an excellent portrait of William Aud
way Partridge, the American sculptor.
Walter Macewen, of Chicago, contributes
two good paintings in oils. One is the por-
trait of a very handsome young woman, of
gentle and aristocratic bearing. She is in
black, and stands on white carpet against