Arizona silver belt., 1894-04-14
THAT PICTURE.

! lSdtS NhiS iltottilitIONA IOluI uuu httH obstinately refused by the jury ut the annual salon,
 So. from force of habit in going and coming so often from the studio to the musee and from the musee to the studio, tho picture knew the road so well that. if one had set ito wheels, it would have been able to go all alone to the Louvre.
 Marcel, who had ten times repainted and rearranged this canvas from top to bottom, attributed to personal hostil ity of the members of the jury nguinst himself the ostraCisn which rejected it annually from the Square calon, and in his idle moments he had com posed in honor of the Cerberuses of the institute a little dictionary of curses with some illustrations of savage fe. rOcity This collection, which had be. come celebrated, had obtained in the studios and ut the School If tho Fine Arts the popular suCecss which is at- tachod 10 the immortal complaint of Jean Belin painter in ordinary to the grand sultan of Turkey. All the daub. CTS of Paris had copy of it in their memory.
 For a long timo Marcel was not dis. couraged by the determined reiecuons which he received gt each annual ex- hibitop. He was com ortably se fled in the opinion that his picture was, in its least proportions, tho long sought for pendant to the Marriage Fglst at Cana that gigantic masterpiece whose brilliant splcnloT the du.t of three cen. tuyies has not been able Co tamish. So, every year at the eTCch f tde salon, Marcel sent hls picture Co bs examined by ,Ee jury. Ouly--in order to tMuv the examiners of thg sc Ht and to try tu oal.!o th ui in their prgconc tyud de- termination to exclude it, whic ] plciu- dice they seemed to have aga st the
 Crossing of the Rcd Sea ith0ut changing anything in the gCner com position Of the painting. be n hfed certain details and changed the tale uf his picture. Thus. one year it cane before the jury under tAe name Of The Crossing ot the Ruhicuu. Eut Pha- rauh uadiy disguised under CSsar's mantle, walnstantly recognized andre lected with all the honors due hi;a
 The following year Marcel t5rew upon the foreground oi bis ranya lay. CT oi white paint to represent snow, planted tree in one corner, aud dress. ing up an Egyptian iu the uniform of the imperial guard Of France le bap- tized his picture The Crossing of the Beresina. The jury, winch h.d rub- 5gd up its spectacles that day upon the tails of its green pabI cCI,s-0n official occasions the members of the institute wear dress coats having green palms embroidered on the lar k and coliaTs-was not duped Ly IS new ruse. It recognized perfectly t-e obsii nate canvas, especially by a E devil of many coIored horse that pranced about ou top of wave of the Led sea The dressing of this horse served Mar eel for all his experiments in ,.loriug, and in his everyday speech he called 1t
 a syuoptlcal tableau of fine tones, be- cause it reproduced all the most vaned combinations of color with their plays of hcht and shade. But once more. annoyed by this fine detail. tho jury had not black balls enough iJ fully cx press their feelings in rejecting Tho Crossing of the Beresina.
 Very well said Marcel, 'I' II wait, Next year shall send it again under the title of the Passage das Panora mas. '
 4 few days later. and when Macrel had already forgotten terrible threats of vengeance he had uttered against his prosecutors. be received a visit from Father Mcdicis, Thus the bohemiaus had nickuamed Jew named Solomon. who at that epoch was well known to all members of artistic and literary Eo- henia. with whom be was in perpetual relations. Pore Medicis did business in all sorts Uf bri. 8brac. He sold com plete sets of furniture at from | ? francs upto 5000. He bought everything and khew how to soil 1t again at profit,
 The exchange bank of M Proudhon was very little affair compared to the system applied by Medicis. who pes sessed the genius of traffic 10 a degree never before attained by even the most a,ile of bis fellow believers. His shop which was situated in the Place du | Carruusel. was a fairyland where one found everything 10 be desired. All the products of nature. all the creations of art. all that comes forth from the bowels of the earth and of genius. Med lcis made of it an object of negotiation
 His business touched everything, ab- solntely everything that exists; he dealt even in the ideal. Medicis bought ideas in order to exploit them himself or to sell them again, Known to all the ltterateuys and all tho artists. an intimate of the palette and a familiar friend of the writing c, be vas the Asmodpus of the art. He would sell you some cigaT9 for the plot of novel, some slippers for sonnet, some fresh fish for paradoxcs; he chatted by the hour with writers whose business it was to relate in the newspapers tho scandal of society; he would procure you places in the galleries Of the honse of parliament and invitations to private soiTees he lodged by the night, the week or the month the wandering daub- CTS who paid him in copiCsof thoworks l of Flayius Josephus.
 On entering the home of the bohe. nnans. with that intelligent air which distinguished him, the Jew digined that be had arrived at q propiGous mo ment In fact, the four friends found ! theinselves nt that moment met in cuun- ell and under the presidency of fero cious appetite they were discussing the grave question of bread and meat, It | was on Sunday, and the end of the month! Fatal day and sinister datei The entrance of Medicis was therefore .-.--.A.-a ...;AL :. in....,,. ..hn,un lo, Lho,-