The Redwood gazette., 1893-07-20
WORLDS FAIR STATUE OF THE REPUBLIC

1dT1S, OuI cOuG1uucO 10 SkcUCu oil Gue
time, still among the military cadets.
The artists tried to discourage his
father from letting him come among
them, but he took a prize in 1859, when
he was twenty-three years old, and
Eugene De Lacroix, an eminent artist,
took fancy to him. and he obtained a
commission to paint Garibaldi. which
he did very badly, but at twenty-five
one of his soldier pictures pleased the
French, though he had to make wood
cuts for q living after, he left his IA
theirs house, and drew for most of the
French illustrated papers. Mr.. Wal
tiers, of Baltimore, and other Ameri-
cans have purchased his pictures,
which are strong in their physiognomy
and gesture.
Tyron, whose pictures we see with
admiration of French pastoral scenes,
sheep, landscapes, etc, was intended
by his parents to be painter of porce-
lain, and he actually went into the
porcelain factory at Sevres, which
gives such a fine exhibit here, but he
preferred wider range, and began
travelling through France and Holland
and England, painting as he went He.
is esteemed one of the most honest of
French artists, in that. he does not try
to convey what nature does not ex-
press. =
Diaz, who is we'll known in America,
and has had several sales here of paint
ings which brought high prices. is a
brilliant colorist. His parents were
driven out of Spain to Bordeaux, by
politics, and he became an orphan and
was taken charge of by a Protestant
preacher. His mother having gone to
Paris to give Spanish lessons, a bug bit
him on the leg, which had to be ampu-
tated, and the cripple was put in a
china shop. where he began to initiate
the pictures on the china, and the man
ufacturer Of porcelain" sent him up to
the studio; but.he did not like his mas
ter and quarreled with him, and, pass
ing through period of long poverty,
finally executed a picture which would
not bring for long time as much
money as would pay for its materials.
However, a man came along one day
and paid three hundred dollars for it,
raising the price voluntarily two hun.
dred dollars. 1t turned out to be one Of
his most famous pictures. 1.-THE Gyp-
sies."' He had to leave figures, how
ever, and come to landscape before he
was fully appreciated, and he was ;thir-
teen years getting medal, at the age
of thirty-seven. After he got the mar
ket he painted too fast and sold too
many pictures. and seemed to be drunk
for money. ~.
/ ,Bougereau was born in 1925, at the
old Huguenot place of La Rochelle, and
while in business house in bordeaux
attendeda drawing school two hours q
day. When with SO Little training he
took the prize, over the other pupils
they meanly raised a riot His uncle.
T q priest at Saintonge, gave. him
shelter,for his easel. where no painter
had ever. been, and he worked hard to
save one hundred and eighty dollars,
with which he entered Picot's study at
Paris At twenty-five he. gained the
grand prize which sent him to Rome,
and at twenty-nine he had fame. he
has decorated theaters and churches
and town halls fsa In slS73 he painted
the nymphs and satyEs. now in Stokes,
baErooms. . superb specimen OF cold
vestal style, the nymphs being litby
m6on,i and sub, their ,fssh SPARKLING
FIiKe icieles,,o their s,deshableness not
human, their dAficate,fun mefmaidisb
Eand shrattle.t ,s.tsssfss.s siss.s ~ q asF"'
The French Landscape painter.
D'Aubigny, who died in 1878. at the
age OF sixty-seven, was q sketcher and
massive formulator Of the effects OF