New-York tribune., 1906-06-25
DECORATIVE ART SHOW
american Women IN Paris VIII
Find 1t Worth q Visit.
Paris. June Is.

Paris has nothing interesting attractive
TO offer American visitors OF the fair just now
than the loan exhibition of fans laces. erbroideries
and costumes opened recently in the Pavilion de
Marsan. which forms the northwest corner of the
Louvre. and is entered from the Rue de Rivoli.
Many of the objects exhibited lent by grandes
danes Of Partisan society, to whom they have come
either by inheritance by purchase. The Princess
Amedee de Broglie lends beautiful eighteenth cen
tury fans. other treasures OF toilet costume
belong to the Colntesse Chollet the Comtesse de
GrenhUle. the Baronne de Ciunzbourg, the Baronne
de Rothschild. Nine. Porges. Nine. Denorua ndie
and others
The modern articles or women's attire and orna-
ment are collected in the large entrance hall. In
rooms TO the right may be seen the gala costumes
by Napoleon L Near by ball dresses
of the Empress Josephine. To the left is a large
room containing what amateurs consider the finest
show of fans ever exhibited in France. Prominent
in the collection two fans painted by Coypel
C66-l122J, in which a group of graceful figures is
depicted in strong, rich. mellow tnts characteristic
of that master. The happy possessor of these two
gems has lent two other fans only less beautiful
than the Coypels- One is painted over the whole Of
its space with little French street scene. and the
other has background of thickly clustering. life
like flowers, whose colors are as rich and vivid as
when they were first painted.
But the work in this exhibition is not all of
French origin Very Dutch and very dainty are
some fans painted by Van Ostade. on a soft back
in with firm yet light brush. the homely interiors.
and the homely folk smoking their pipes by fire
and lamp light in high. quaint chairs, while a
couple in the working clothes of Dutch peasants
perform a country dance in the middle OF the floor.
This fan is mounted richly embossed sticks Of
silver gilt. and is thing of beauty These Dutch
artists were fond OF gray paper for their work;
Jacob van Bruysdael uses It also for his lovely
landscape in which the sky is as blue as that seen
in the old illuminated missals. Both the gray and
the blue are cleverly toned by the splendid sticks
of smoked mother of pearl embossed in gold.
EMBROIDERED GLOVES
Tearing ones self away from the fans. and turn
ing 10 the wonderful embroideries OF the same
artistic period. one comes upon a high glass case
filed with gloves. Gloves of leather and gloves of
lace gloves of kind of knitted silk and gloves OF
fine cambria. The gloves of silk and cambria have
no fingers; only the tip of the thumb is accommo-
dated. for they are rather mittens than gloves.
Made early in the sixteenth century these lawn mitts
curious. They are thickly lined and are
covered with stitchery in fine pale yellow silk the
tiny stitches forming little conventional geometri-
cal tnconSpiCuouS designs all the back of the
hand A white kid glove which belonged to
M ee eosam q Of fRa nach as t en e vent
ing the, fair. Diane de Poitiers. in his carefully
evidently made for a slim hand. and the gauntlet is
e a with IN o IN @ 0we e n sbs snd S1t
broidered lines run across the back of the hand.
the gloves exhibited in this case which belonged TO
King Charles l of England. 10 King James of
England and to Louis XIII of France.
CARMEN sYLvA'S BEDsPREAD
King Francis must have had pretty taste in
gloves. for pair OF his shown here have their
broad gauntlets ornamented in little panels, with
delicately etched designs. In of these dainty
compartments is a large snail OF the kind found
on French vines. and used for food The snail sits
In the most natural manner his leaf. his head
out and his horns erect. The next compartment
has geOmetrcal design, a third rose and so
forth. the whole being finished off with much
tarnished gold lace. In later times Louis XVI
would appear 10 have patronized very curiously
made gloves. A pair of his is OF yellow silk made
without fingers but the back of the hand Is con-
tinued into a point reaching somewhere about the
middle joints of the fingers There Is little light
embroidery in gold thread wandering over the
glove. Far more elaborate is ladys glove OF his
time. Also in rich silk of pale straw color this
glove has garland OF flowers solidly and some
what heavily embroidered in natural tints running
all up the arm. II is curious to reflect how com
pletely this particular industry has died out. The
nineteenth century to have killed the m
broidered glove. which is now exclusively reserved
for bishops cardinals.
The day this exhibition opened its doors saw the
closing of another show in the Champs EIysees
which was of kindred description. The Paris
skating rink was filled with examples of women's
work drawn from all countries of Europe This
exhibition. which was organized by the "Gaulois"
a Paris daily paper, seemed protest against the
current Of modern life which draws women away