New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-30


Constant Lefebvre. Laurens. Chartran and
Gabriel Terrier, was opened this afternoon by
President Loubet, and il will be open TO the
public Tomorrow, vanishing day. Altogether
there are 4,26S numbers of which 1880 are
oil Paintings and $50 are sculpture the rest
being watercolors. pastels. architectural draw
ings. engravings and objects of art. There are
4l2 paintings less and eighty-three works of
sculpture more than last year. The jury of ad-
mission has shown greater severity than for
many years. Nevertheless the Salon contains
some FIVE hundred pictures that ought to have
been refused There scores Of distressing
limitations OF Bouguereaus nyn1phs and of Har
pigness oaken landscapes. but on the whole
there is evidence Of conscientious emulation and
increasing sincerity.
Indeed. thoroughness and sincerity furnish the
keynotes to this years Salon although in many
instances evoking impressions of respect rather
than sympathy or admiration There few
nudes. scarcely dozen Scrptural compositions.
and the canvases that within the cate
gories Of allegorical horrors or naturalstic
freaks may be counted ones fingers. There
is only one lobster, and not a single automobile.
On the other hand, there are excellent portraits.
including very remarka bic ones by young and
comparatively unknown men, such as Caro-
Delvaille Paul Chabas, Eugene Pascau and Pa
tricot, which compel the Bonnats, the Benjamin
Constants and Jules Lefebvres to look TO their
laurels. There is profusion of delightful land
scapes seascapes and charming interiors.
Detsille exhibits two vast mural decorations
for the Hotel de Vile One Of these. "1Soa,
represents the municipality of Paris presenting
TO the color bearers of the Imperial Guard gold
en- crowns for the regimental eagles the vet
eran troops. returning from Jena, Eylau and
F'riedland. enter the capital This splendidly
composed and harroniously colored reconstruc-
ton of one of the proudest pages of the Napo-
leonc era is unqpestionably the finest picture Of
Detaiile's career It is a masterpiece. making
the other historical paintings. for example, Ma
poIeon's Coronation, by David. in the Louvre
seem like the work of a mere tyro.
The portraits OF Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Alice
Roosevelt hold their amid Partisan sur
roundings ana pronounced by French crit
les specimens of Chartrans best work. surpass-
ing in distinction and refinement anything he
has vet done. In the room near that in which
the portrait of Mrs. Roosevelt occupies the place
Of honor is a large portrait of Nine Emile Lou
bet a solid composition, sombre in tone and
admirably drawn by Patriot, who has sue
ceeded in portraying the maternal dignity and
true wounanly character OF the lady who pre-
sides at the Elysee Palace. A brilliant portrait
OF Eugene Rostand, in velvet and yellow reflect
ed lamplight, reclining a sofa reading and
holding a cigarette between his fingers, painted
by Pascau. attracts attention.
Of the 1907 painters who have oil pictures In
the Salon seventy-two are Americans, of whom
twenty-four are women. The Americans this
year evince close and accurate observation and
more than the usual technical skill. Their works
are full of interest and sympathy. a young lady
in a Colonial white satin gown, gazing at a mir
ror which reflects her face and bust. is pro-
-nounced by French critics the finest work that
Walter MacEwen has painted. It has grace of
design and refinement of feeling, is more ami
mated and more expressive than the somewhat
similar picture of girl looking at an ancestral
portrait recently exhibited ct Philadelphia by
the same painter Bisbines soft and mellow
cattle piece compares favorahly with any pict-
ures of its class in the Salon.
Seymour Thomas exhibits two portraits, which
are hung as carefully as if they were canvases
by Bonnat or Benjamin-Constant- The one in
pale lime colored tones is a portrait Of Mrs
Clarence Eddy; the other is a conscientiously
composed study in portraiture Of q young lady,
in soft subdued tones. the notes disclosing re-
raarkably successful treatment of values and
atmospheric space, proving that this rising por-
traitist can give something finer than mere
academic thoroughness Edwin Lord Weeks, in
his Nineteenth Century Buddha. gives superb
orange toned sculptured front of the famous
Temple Of Chitor mentioned in Kiplings Maui
lahka." Dashes of Complementary color bring
out the values, while the groups of natives I'M
part life and animation to one Of this Oriental
lists best works.
There are thirty-three pictures Of sheep in the
salon OF the painters Of these TWO Americans,
Herman Hartwich and William Horton. easily
carry of the honors- The former has large
canvas of sheep browsing under trees while
Horizons has the idyllic calm and meditation OF
the modern Dutch school
Miss Blackstone Freeran's Counterfeit Coin
ers" is one Of the most virile OF the American
pictures It Is dark picture, with lamp re-
factions on the coiners alarmed at their work
hx arnroa ching footsteps. while the blue light
Of dawn trickies into the stone cellar through
an iron-barred gateway. John Aid has de-
upnrf,1i rose colored interior Miss Greene's por
trait of a girl reclining straw sofa reading
Is an excellent composition; so. too are two
Landscapes near Fontainebleau in soft Fantin-
Larour tones by Albert Gihon- Dick1nsons soft
portraits have suavitv and repose Of workman
ship.
The young American Aston Knight comes
out strongly as painter Of charming land
snenes in q lighter and more modern tone Of
eatnlent than those Of his father, Rfdgeway
KNIGHT. who exhibits his favorite ACCIDENTALLY
treated peasant girls
The sculpture section is dominated by Ge-
rau,e's superb bronze eagle with broken wings,
intended Cor the battlefield Of Waterloo &C.
-snae's polvchronae marble woman dropping
balls into cups is delightful, while MacMonnies's
admirable equestrian General Slocum' and Ere
raiet's grandly conceived equestrian "Dugues-
clin" give martial aspect to the broad expanse
Of the unusually interesting statuary-
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