New-York tribune., 1905-08-07
PARIS ART NOTES.
Ziem's Private Collection an Petit
Pdldis-Ne7C Lourre Museum.

into municipal art museum, although its OFF,
cial Inauguration such will not take place un
Ill October. The Petit Palais which contains the
Detuit collection of paintings, illuminated ff-
teenth century books, carved statues in wood
and ivory. rare enamels besides well selected
gallery OF modern pictures and statuary, has
Just been enriched by four additional galleries,
open to the public.
The veteran Orientalist painter, Felix Ziem. is
perhaps 1eenly appreciated in NewYork as
in Paris. Entering upon the twilight of his ca
reer he presented to the city of Paris his private
collection, comprising what he himself justly
considers his finest works. Most of these We're
painted some twenty thirty years ago and re-
veal the artist in the period of his greatest
vigor untrammelled by later conventionalities
and mannerisms. Ziem said to DR.. Brousse. pres
ident of the Municipal Council of Paris Il prefer
to give the pictures to the city now, when can
see them arranged in the Petit Paas. rather than
wait until after my death" Very we'll" replied
DR.. Brousse. Il will ask the Municipal Council
to authorize me to place your collection in the
Petit Palais, in a room which shall bear your
name" The conversation took place last Jan
nary. and a few days ago the ffty-six paint
ngs seventy-fouT studies. forty-one water
oors and five large albums of drawings and
sketches together with the artists portrait by
Ricard were placed in the northern wing of the
deaf ear TO dealers and amateurs who offered
tempting prices for the pictures in this colleC-
tion. 1T is an old painJers pride, he ex-
/ claimed. and if he may have fewer banknotes
among his assets, this Will be more than COM
Iensated for in reputation and fame. The Wis
itor is enchanted by the radiant hUes of gold,
red, blue and violet all combined harmoniously
about his favorite motifs chosen at Venice
Constantinople. lie Coup de Canon"-zem's
masterpiece. for which only fortnight ago he
refused the price OF 2T0O00 francs-hangs in
the centre of the collection. A frigate of the
old fashioned type fires the gun announcing her
departure from the Lido. Various quantity
trimmed Adriatic craft, with brightly colored
sails, surround the frig2te and in the distance
are the campanilles of Venice. The water is
transparent, the atmosphere is saturated with
moisture, catching and rejecting the luminos-
ity of the sun. Here have Ziem at his best
Groups of sightseers stand if enchanted be-
fore this canvas, radiant with life and color
Near by is The Sunrise at the Golden Horn"
wherein Ziem imparts the fascinating mysteries
of the Levant One is transported to scenes in
Asia Minor Algeria, Naples and Provence
There studies of Holland and of Fontaine-
bleau. Scores of paintings sketches or water
color drawings convey the concentrated well
| thought out impressions of the marvellous col
animal painter. His groups of Oriental horse
| men at full gallop breathe nervous action
| and harmonious movement. Zem's fruits and
| flowers will be surprise for many of his ad-
mrers
| In an adjoining hall in the Petit Palais one
| finds upward of three hundred works of the
late sculptor, Jules Dalou, presenting in their
| earnest, conscientious thoroughness an invau-
able object lesson for young sculptors. The
great works of Daou. such his Triumph of
the Republic and his "Silenus." naturally do
not figure in the collection. but are represented
/ by maquettes. There replicas of the busts
of Albert Wolf Charles FIoquet DR. Charcot
Henri Rochefort. Francis Maynard, Vacquerie
| Philippe Gille, Gustave Courbet. DR. Richer and
others as we'll as small studies that served the
| sculptor for his monuments of Gambetta, Victor
/ Hugo and Delacrox. Jules Dalou was in sculpt-
ure very much what Alfred Roll is i'll painting
and from the works of each two sentiments
forcibly disengage themselves-the love of life
and the love of labor. 1t is difficult to imagine
works imparting the sensation of joyful life
more intensely than do DalOu's "Fountane of
the Bacchantes'' and Rolls July Fourteenth"
both of which in the Petit Palais
| Two additional galleries in the Petit Palas
| contain the works of Carries. the ceramic sculp-
tor and the porcelans of the National Manu-
factory OF Sevres, which were exhibited at the
| st. Louis Exposition
American tourists will be glad to learn that
new museum, devoted to Mosem and Oriental
| art, has been installed in the Louvre The gall
| leries, opened to the public last week, contain
| remarkable specimens of Persian carpets of the
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Here one finds
! beautiful forged iron hanging lamp, inlaid
with gold and finely worked as to resemble
! lace. There four sharp points projecting at
each corner Of this lamp, which made in the
fourteenth century, which, according TO tradi-
ton, intended to support the heads of the
! Sultan's victims Several rooms are devoted to
| Japanese silks and lacquer of the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries There is beautifully
| carved ivory casket of Arabic workmanship OF
! the tenth century Other rooms contain speci-
mems of Rhodes faIences and Persian glass.
The death of Henner, the painter, has cast a
gloom over art circles, for, although confined
TO his studio residence in the Rue Bruyere for
! the past six months by malady of the in
4 testines of which he died July %. he was Il
firm and genial friend to younger artists
Physicians say that Henner would have lived
! much longer than his seventy-sxth year had
| he cIung less obstnately to his peculiar fad
of eating only solid meal day. He used to
rise at ; o'clock. He would drink cup of milk
and smoke his famous cherry wood pipe. At six
in summer or at eight in winter he began work
in his studio which he seldom left until half
past seven in the evening. when he would sit
down to a copous dinner. Henner would
then eat large quantities Of beef mutton or
! ham, garnished with mustard and horse radish
Sauerkraut. cabbage. onions carrots and
potatoes fried in lard his favorite vegeta-