Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-06-18

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goddess hovers over him emitting glorious
| coior-clouds the initiated know it is poet
| leaning back for inspiration. But the car
| icaturist intcrprets 1t differently. THE
| Muse is setting off fireworks for the poor
| young man, to distract his ovcrworked
| mind;' while from a vase on the mantel-
| piece and a bottle on the table the rockets
| are seen shooting up. to form the color
| cloud. The caricaturist always follows the
| outlines of the original paintings faithfully
! on the whole, and gains his startling effects
| from few but bold distortions.
Spanish Subjects Attractive.
Everything relating to Spain is sure to at
tract attention. The French feel so sure
| that Spain is to be gobbled up by the
United States that they do not hesitate to
| give to their sleepy, backward neighbor
the sentimental sympathy accorded to the
| under dog in the fight. One painter has
given a scene where Don Quixote is charg-
ing on the windmill. The shock has dis
mounted him. and he lies in a pitia5le posi-
ton on the ground, while Sancho PanZa
comes into sight In the caricature it is
Jonathan, instead of Sancho Panza, who
looms up. as if to say, And now will you
be gOod?'
Otero," the Spanish dancer" known some
thing less than generation ago to Ameri-
cans for-her lack of prejudice and over
plus of diamonds. The caricaturist simply
puts a wickeder look in her eye and am
plifies her ripe proportions saying: .Por-
trait of the belle Otero, charged With the
secret mission of running the celebrated
American battalion of miilionaireS. If
Dams lie service de rAutriche,
LIE militaire nest pas richie.
it is different in America. The task of the
beautiful Otero is an immense one
Chartran, who has painted so many por-
traits of rich Americans, exhibits
Nv ounded Bull Fighter" The caricatu re
says ambiguously that the painting pre-
vents Frenchmen from regretting that
America has taken the painter COR herself.
Portraits Attract Notice.
In general the portraits being strong
this year and dealing with welI-known
Partisan personalities, they are receiving
deal of attention in the comic catalogues
and the caricatures of the illustrated
weeklies
Benjamin Constant who has done great
deal of high-priced work in New York, ex-
hibits full-length of NJ. Paul Schege. This
Is the gentleman who married the widow
of Isaac Singer. of sewing machine fame.
He is something of a sport, and is repre-
sented in riding costume, tightly breeched
and standing in rather defiant attitude
The caricaturist has caught him as the
boxing kangaroo"-not without strong
touch of the original picture. and not with
out secret aliusion to sparIing encounter
in which the gentleman recently engaged,
to the scandal Of Partisan society.
Roybet paints the secretary the Salon
with huge Medici lace collar, like those
OF the Florentine cavaliers; the comic art
ist turned it into the head of Johr the
Baptist on Salome's platter. The actress
Rejane has been done in his most impress
sionist manner by Besnard-a Little Rum
Pied" says the joker. And he represents
her-rumpled. Bonnat's portrait of Gen.
Davoust, who is chancellor OF the Legion
of Honor, is turned into a meerschaum
pipe bowl, under process of coloring, be-
cause Of the good mans yellow-brown COM
plexion. Bonnats other portrait, of Rosa
Caron, the prima donna Of the Paris opera,
who long since lost her voice, but still re-
tains her self-esteem and high salary is
turned into cross-eyed woman, from look
ing continually at the pearl which she
wears as Salambo, hanging down between
her eyes. The caricatures of the portraits
are all ill-natured, and many arc likely to
provoke Quarrels. Paris mist have her
little wars.
Sensation of the Salon.
The great sensation of the Salon--one
might say. the scandal--nas been the etatue
of Balzac, by Rodin. The sculptor has been
nearly ten years at work upon it, and won
ders were expected from the impressiouist-
sculptor, who is "of tomorrow rather than
today. At first sight it looks like a cross
between giant frog and man running
race in sack. Afterward you see that