New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-12-10
NEW SCULPTURE IN PARIS.
DALOUS TRIUMPH OF THE REPUBLIC
BARTHOLOME'S GREAT TOMB

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Paris November %
The unyciling last Sunday Of Jules Dalou',
immense monument in bronze representing THE
Triumph OF the Republic furnished the occasion
for violent political discussion: but az to the
artistic merits OF Dalou's work there seems to
be but one opinion, namely, that it ranks among
the finest Of the modern monuments erected in
Paris.
This female figure personifying the Republic
stands erect in triumphal chariot drawn by
two lions. The body Is draped In q floating
cloak The head is surmounted with the
Phrygian cap The left hand rests upon the
fasces. With the right hand the figure invites
the city Of Paris to reconciliation and peace
The sculptor has succeeded in imparting to his
central figure an impression Of strength and
grandeur. Seated on one Of the lions is a nude
female, representing the genius OF Liberty. Tho
right hand grasps torch, while from the left
hand hang the chains that have been removed
from the people. Two other figures are at the
right and left OF the trumpha car; one Of them
IS O. robust smith, with barred chest, personify-
ing Labor, and the other is a massive female
wearing long robe symbozing Justice. Be-
hind the car is a nude female with joyful ex
preston holding arnfuls OF fruit and flowers.
This is the personifcation OF Plenty. Groups
Of children dance and gambol in charming
postures.
The female figure of the Republic Is four and
a half metres In height. The chariot and tho
pedestal upon which 1t rests are six and half
metres high. The figures at the base are each
four metres or forty centimetres In height Each
lion is four metres in length The total weight
OF the bronze is $4,000 kilogrammes The sculp
tor Dalou began the work in 1878 shortly after
the close Of the Paris Exhibition OF that year.
Dalou who had been involved in the Commune
outbreak in May. 1871. living in exile in
London when the City OF Paris opened COM
petitive examination for statue TO be erected
in one Of the large squares Of the city in COM
memoration Of the Republic. The model pre-
scented by Dalou, then quite an unknown youth,
secured the prize. The original model has, how
ever, been repeatedly changed. and the work as
it now appears is the result Of twenty years
labor.
NJ. Dalou has also completed a monument in
memory OF Aphand. the architect OF the City
Of Paris which was recently erected in the Ave-
nue. du Bots de Boulogne. He is now engaged
in finishing the sculptural decorations Of tho
Alexander III Bridge across the Seine at tho
entrance TO the coming Worlds Fair Of 1900
In the cemetery of Pore Lachaise. facing the
main entrance, there is an abrupt rocky promi-
ncnce. This has been shaped. by the aid OF
masonry into sort Of Egyptian tomb upon
which Bartholome, the sculptor, has completed
his work in memory Of the dead unproyided
with special tablets tombstones. The vast
work is In admirable harmony with the sur
roundings Two broad avenues OF the great
Partisan metropolis encircle the monument
Poplar and cypress trees near II make an APP
proprate frame for the Srayish white stone
upon which the figures are chlselled. The er-
ecutlon Is excellent The motive may be de-
scribed in few llnes-a broad expanse Of gray
wall. In the wall there is a sombre abyss into
which two nude figures about to enter. They
are husband and wife. Their arms are enlaced
and they step toward the unknown At both
sides groups Of every age and condition OF
humanity follow the two central figures. Be
meath and In the same axis as the first abyss
Is a second chasm. Here repose at full length
the husband and wife and their offspring. all
three united in the common earth being radh
ant IN light personifying Hope invokes them t.
eternal life. &. l. Il