The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-24

engaged upon the famous painting
which he said was meant to represent
the Passage of the Red Sea: and for
five or six years this masterpiece in
color had been obstinately refused by
the jury. Indeed, from it's constant
journeying back and forth, from the
artists studio to the Musee, and from
the Musee to the studio, the painting
knew the road SO well that one needed
only to set it on rollers and it would
have been quite capable of reaching
the Louvre alone. Marcel, who had re-
painted the picture ten times, and
minutely gone over it from top to bot
tom, vowed that only personal hostil-
ity on the part of the members Of the
jury could account for the ostracism
which annually turned him away from
the Salon, and in his idle moments he
had composed, in honor of those watch
dogs of the Institute, little dictionary
of insults, with illustrations of a savage
irony. This collection gained celebrity
the Ecole des 'Beaux-Arrs, the same
sort of popular success as that achieved
by the immortal complaint of Giovanni
Bellini, painter by appointment to the
Grand Sultan of the Turks; every dau-
Der in Paris had a copy stored away
in his memory.
For a long time Marcel had not al
lowed himself to be discouraged by the
emphatic refusal which greeted him at
each exposition He was comfortably
settled in his opinion that his picture
was, in a modest way, the companion
piece long awaited by the Wedding OF
Cana" that gigantic masterpiece whose
dazzling splendor the dust of three cen
turtles has not dimmed. Accordingly
each year, at the time of the Salon.
Marcel sent his picture to be examined
by the jury. Only, in order to throw
the examiners off the track and If pos
sible to make them abandon the poilcy
of exclusion which they seemed to have
a6ODtPd
Red Sea- Marcel. without in any way
disturbing the general scheme OF ms
nicture. modified certain details ana
changed it's title.
For instance, on one occasion 1t al
rived before the jury under the name Oh
the PAS of the Rubicon; put
Pharaoh, poorly disguised uhoer
Caesars mantle, was recognized anu
renulsed with all the honors that were
his due.
The following year. Marcel spreau
over the level plane of his picture 9
1aver of white representing SHOW
,,,.r+aa nfne-tree in one corner, ana
clothing an Egyptian as a grenaoier VI
tho Imperial Guard, rechrlsteheo 'ne
nainting the Passage of the Beresina'
The iury. which on that very day hsao
polished it's spectacles on the iihiiis -
itsillustrious coat, was not IN any way
taken in by this new ruse. 1t Feoo7
arfactlv well the persistent
nainting, above all by olg olo'e u :
horse of many colors, which was ie"i
ino ont of one Of the waves Oh liio A'0N'
Go THE coat of that horse had ser'-
,,ooo1 for all his experiments III
color and in private conversation
ouaa II his svnoptic table OF fine TONES
o he had reproduced, in tneil
~. aand shade all possible
combinations of color. But once oo
;r.ons;hIe TO this detail, the jury
"a scarcely able to tina
o,,ob to emphasize their reiusai -
..I,ossaea of the Beresina.
Very WELL" said Marcel; no i,
.x,.n expected. Next year
'n' ,,raar the title of Passage
des Panoramas. them
..rhat will be one on thehi
-, them. them, them, sang tue
TO, Schaunard, fitting the "oiu'
Ni'' haa been composing-a ter
r;hle air, noisy as gafhut o.
-, and the accompaniment ~
ei''po' o- RI every piano In 'A'
neighborhood- o+ nictur.
..uow could they refuse that p''la
.,tron+ having every drop Oh 80" .,oi,
,,,i,;on in my Red Sea rise up - .,
i'i''i0- oovar them with shame
r,rrnured Marcel, as he sazeo ." :,
ZINC when one thinks 'na' :,
antains a good hundred crowns w. -
o;n+ and million OF se"iN9'
a1 Of the fair days Oh my -
~ - lowing bald as my hat! bu' - ~,
iass ever have the last Woro' u.ls ~.
sn@~ diving breath I shall keep on s nav
ing them my painting I want ~
!. .naravea upon their memory
.rbat is certainly the su'e rnstav
80, letting it engraved" said euss~, :
e c,,,as in plaintive voice, aoaiA tna
,.aso1f. THAT was good ons + tba
really a good one; mus
49, next time I am asked out. .,on,
on w continued his impreoa'l0