New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-21
FRENCH ART AT ST, LOUIS.
n Representative Erhibit Of the
Best Work of Partisan Artists.
Paris, December Z


for the st. Louis Exposition. which this week.
under the presidency of M Leon Bonnat has
terminated It's work. NJ. Andre Sago. the
French Government Art Commissioner for the
Exposition, has assembled all the pictures
cepted by the jury in the rooms of the Grand
Palace of the Champs Elys6es, while the stat
uary is being carefully packed in straw and
sawdust in large coffin-like chests in the Gal
lery of Machines near the Eiffel Tower The
French fine art exhibit for the St Louis Expo
sition is pronounced to be altogether superior
in quality to any that France has ever before
sent to foreign country. Neither the pictures
nor the statuary be viewed but from the
official lists the following names of artists and
their works of interest indicating the
character of the French exhibit, which consists
of 600 pictures. 200 works Of sculpture and 200
watercolor drawings pastels and engravings.
William Bouguereau sends Les Oreades' and
the Assault Upon innocence; Leon Bonnat
sends three portraits: Jean Beraud, THE Scarlet
Christ Bound to the Column Marcel Baschet,
a full length portrait of Nine. H with Span
ish greyhound. portrait of Ambrose Thomas,
and the portrait of a little girl; Carolus-Duran,
portrait of Nine. Jacques Stern, portrait of Nine,
Georges Feydeau and the Last Hour of
Christ; Dagnan Bouveret a portrait and an
allegorical study; Paul Chabas "Derniers Ray
ons" and Les Charbonniers'; Chartran sends
'Richelieu" and "Siegfried' Cesbron, Roses
and Lilies; Chaylery, "A Fantasia; Cottet,
"Old White Horse" THE Bonfires of Saint
Jean" and a 'Seascape"; Georges Clairin, "A
Woman and Flowers; Courtols, Adam and
Eve" Love at a Banquet" and portrait of
Nine G.; Paul I.aurens Toilette de Venus
Jules Lefebre. Three Studies Of Women; Rob
ert Tong FIeury, Washington; LIE Sidener.
Moonlight; Lhermitte Death of the Woods
man." 1.-THE Marine" and THE WasherwOmen';
Claude Monet. lie Printemps" and two land
scapes painted Giverny; Montenard two
landscapes; Roll, ''L'Allee Herbeux.' Dams un
Jardn' and 1.-The Old Woman with Fag-
COTS; Nine. Claude Marlef sends a head
and bust of an autumnal Bacchante, gay
ly laughing, with hands full of ripe grapes
Tattegrain, 'Saint-Quentin After the AS
sault," and THE British Army Crossing the
Ford at Etaples" Prinet Entire Amies" and
Picnic; lie Gout-Gerard, two Venetian pict-
ures with female figures; Rondel. a portrait;
Saglio 1.-The Visit and Before the Looking
Glass; Simon. portrait of mother with her
children; Daucher, Ecu de Goemon'' and La
Dune; Damoye I'm the Briar Wood and
''Nanterre''; AubIet. Eve and THE Holiday
Aman-Jean, a decorative panel; Joseph Bail,
The Lesson in Lacemakirg in Auvergne''; Bill
lotte, three landscapes; Dubuffe. categorical
studies; Carrer-B elIeuse women and flowers
Dawant, "Miseres'; Debat-P onson, La Cote"
"Fleur de Mer' and a portrait of Mile. Sandrini
the ballet dancer at the Opera; Besnard sends
a decora tive frieze 74O metres in length-nearly
half mile Nine. Madeleine Lemaire. Girls
and Flowers: Gabriel Ferrier The Victor of
the Victors" and THE Flower of the Harem'
Mile. Delasalle, portrait of Maurice Faure; Mile
Duffau, n landscape with female figures; De-
wambez. THE Spectators in Popular The
atre' and The Charge of Police at Mont
martre'; Dinet. three Arab pictures with char
acteristic heads; Umbricht, La Parisienne';
CASTOR La TOuche Descent from the Cross
and female figures; Guedry. La Guerre en-
Dentelles'; Jan Monchablon, two landscapes in
Eastern France. and Jobert Newfoundland
Fishermen" Albert Dagnaux sends one of the
largest canvases in the exhibition @ by 6 feet)
representing ass between two nude allegOri-
cal nymphs. pulling the animals tail. there
by preventing him from running after the sec
ond beauty, who holds before his nose an ap-
Petizing whisp OF grass and wild flowers File
mens sends "KIeber Before Marengo"; Abel
Faivre, "Reverie"; Lauth, two female portraits:
Gervex, "Ophelia," portrait of Mrs. Carroll and
the head Of a child: Gosselin, Evening in a
Valley; Jose Frappa, signing OF the Con-
cordat"; Richard Hail. portrait of Miss Busch:
Jacquet, "IiAttentive''; Humbert, two portraits
of women, and Raphael Collin. female studies.
Prominent among the French sculpture ex-
hibit will be the colossal figure by Rodn repre-
senting LIE Penseur'-"The Thinker" The
man. nude and in meditation. is seated on a
rugged rock. The head and chest lean forward
the elbow is supported by the knee. Upon the
broad hand rests the head. with contracted
face revealing concentrated tension of the
brain. The execution is finished as is not
usually the case with Robins works. The mas
sive strength of the figure of 1.-The Thinker is
at once suggestive of Michael Angelo and of
Carpeaux. 1t is a splendid piece of work. The
original idea was furnished by Robins concep-
ton of y small figure of The Thinker which
surmounty his Gate of He'll" It will be seen in
bronze at st Louis. the founding being success
fully executed by A. Hebrard.
The list of sculpture exhibits accepted by the
jury include Carries, who sends "Pasteur'' and
"Humanite Reconnaissance; Charpentier, Vic
TINS; Fremiet, Gorilla and Bears: Saint
Marceau. "Destines', BarthoIome Dead Child:
Bartholdi. Lafayette" and Grand Supporters
of the World; Pueche. 'Pere Didon" and Muse
OF the Poet Chenier'; Hamar, Merchandising
Dalou. Scene Bacchiqre'; earlier. La Joie'
and a marble bust; Carabin. ''Douceur," and
Spicer- Simson. three busts. The objet dart
section contains beautiful iridesCent porceIains
by Fernand Thesmar and jewels by Lalique
The above list will convey a rough notion of
what the French art exhibit will be at the St
Louis Exposition. There are representative
works by the best artists of the two great rival
societies-that of the Champs EIysees or French
artists, and that of the Champs de Mars. or
societe NationaIe des Beaux Arts, and the
younger talent is accorded ample elbow room
c. I. B.
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