The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-13
ART PRICES IN FRANCE.
Examples OF the Increase In Value q
Works q French Painters.

Works 81 French Painters.
PARIS. May 2S.-The prices realised 1t
recent picture sales have brought up once
more the subject Of the amounts paid to
the artist "a compared with sum paid
later for the same works.
A week or two ago Courbet's Femme
au Cant CLadytwith the Glove). for which
the painter received $500, VA knocked
down to NJ. Durand-Ruel for $4,000.
Renoir's 'Famille Chsrpentier' was cold
two years ago to 60 to America for over
$4,000. Renoir, born in 1871. u still very
much alive and doubtless his memory
takes him back to . day thirty years ago
when he sold sixteen canvases for sol.
Claude Monet. who ID showing just now at
nirand-Ruel's the wonderful nympheas,
a series Of waterscapcs which moved N.
Clemenceau to admiration, once sent a
Sunset at Gayacourt' to the Salon. II
was 30 badly hung that no one noticed 1t
but a dealer who bought 1t for 500.
Three years ago It was sold for $1,000
and presented to the city Of Paris.
Sisley once asked his friend Theodore
Duret to find him q picture lover who
would give him 500 a month for sI
months-total 5000. In return sislsy
would hand over thirty pictures. One Of
these thirty pictures twenty years later
was acquired by Count ]. de Camondo
for 5000.
The Berlin Museum in 1874 bought part
Of the Suermondt collection, the most In.
portant picture being Van Eyok's Man
with the Carnation,' for S25O,0oo. In
1890 this museum bought Albert Durer't
portrait Of Holtzchuher for 800 100 and Ia
1892 Crivelli's -vierge- for $4,000. It
acquired the Hamilton library for $4,000.
It il true it contained Botticellis draw.
ings for the .,Divine Comedy"
A Rotticelli. the Paradise cost d.
National Gallery in London $4,000 IN
1855. and Ansidei's .Vierge' at the Duke
OF Marlborough's sale went to the SANE
gallery for $3.50. 900. At tho Lansdovus
sale It bought three portraits by Veiu-
quez. Morone and Holbetn for 5000 Q
The Italian GoC Hn.m IT, pa AID 1 I;s,;,rs
In which, fitian's aSaored and Profsns
Love- a collector offered the price Of ths
whole.
sIa Tasse dams Ia Maison des Fou.'
by Eugene Delacroix. realized $500 10
1896 at the Dumas els sale: In 1858 Il
reached $500 and In ls72 5000. botA
at public auction: The Same srtastt
Enforcement de Rsbecca' jumped iron
Gales have shown that Del.croiI's pie
lures maintain their high prices.
Works which Ingres sold for SEQ nex
sell for 81, 600. Some OF his last protrait:
for which he got les than 800 have soA
for 1900. Count Primoli owns IL
Family Of Lucien Bonaparte.' . black
pencil work which would bring s3oIoNs
and the owner Of Tho Birth Of the nuses.
in is5s, has refused $4,000 for it
Tho Marquise LAndolfo Caroeno 2
Paris has refused 500. 900 Tor Fortuny1
Spanish Marriage and the ams su@
for Henri Remault's s6aloue.' Tor whid
she did not pay oue-teoth Of @s so"
offered. -
The increase in prices paid for Troy,ous
and Millete p greatly due to me saIa =
America. Take Troyon's Animals IN ths
Shade by the Side Of . Pool i has essa
sold at auction six times, In 1855 Tor 80 -
in 1865 for $500, in 1878 for $50, IN is5s
for $500. in is7e for $500. and IN n@i
Trcyon's .Le Cue (the Fordl beE.ntn
1850 At te4O. Prince Napoleon, w v"II-}
cold It for d 900 and IN is1S II rsaonSa
Sl2, 100. In tsee his White Gov, oroa4n.
Sl7.ooo at auction, and n. ChAuchArd toe
millionaire owner Of the Louvre 10y,
bouRht Il the ame year toe So.oVo, ~
same price for which he bad IN ~
before acquired the sCro0Ane q
Ford which bad Just bsfore been 500
at auction for $4,000. ,,
At tho Secfetan Ale IN 10ee Iroyon.
Cows at Pasture realised 5000; nMs
years later 1t the Fuller sale IN New lot
it's price vas "a. o0o.
No article dealing With picture PIE e~
would be complete without = reere1T
to Millet's sAngelus.' It vas onSnth!
painted for an American and tns ~
was to b 400. The Amesican houea'
better Of his bargain and retu;ea y
picture. Millet thSo sold II to ~. rHty.As
Tor $500: . little la4sr II becam
property Of d. Paul Teass. who so1
10 u. Gavet for Soe0. o
Dursnd-Rnel soquirsd u nsxt for
j. Wilson bought II for 1850. Az
Wilson sale In ISL Georges Pvu!SSr
veutured 1900 on ~ ~
years later In iNSe at tho Secretan AsH
group Of collector rot an option .ot
Tor Siio,eo 10, but - the STATE coulo ~
zee it, way 70 finding any Of tho pure.
money the .AnGeluss departed 70 AnS
iCa vhence IL returned thanks W