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james Pate Jones announces that
he is candidate FOR Register Of
Deeds. subject to the Democratic
primary.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-26
Notes of a Winters Holiday in
European GaIIerieS-lV.*

For those who revere the name OF
Ingres. the little town of Montauban, In
the Southwest of France. is a shrine.
There he was born in 1880 and there,
since his death, in 1861, his collections
have been assembled, including vast
number OF his works and many souNe-
Mrs Of q personal character. l cannot
count the times that | have pored over
the map and speculated as TO how
might make a pilgrimage to the spot
but it always seemed very remote from
Paris, and once, when l was near
enough. at Marseilles, to make the jour
ney other plans bore me away TO Rome.
Montauban was forever receding into the
distance, but as more and more 1t APP
peared inaccessible the desire to go there
only grew the stronger. This winter.
travelling down from Paris to Madrid,
found It hard TO avoid turning off at
Bordeaux TO follow the GarOnne past
Agen and Moissac TO where the TarE
hurries beneath the walls that l longed
10 see. / resisted this temptation and
went on TO the Prado but even while l
rested there, content among the master
pieces of Velasquez, 1t was an ever pres
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Am q shopkeeper? Do / sell my com.
sci? Monsieur. you will come to-morrow
to the studio or ! shall consider you,
conduct as personal insult. Never LA
this question arise between us again =
But against this noble wrath 1t Is undo.
niabe that we have to set many an In
stance Of almost incredible intoleranc.
You are my pupils" he would say u,
Amaury and the rest, land in cCnss.
quence my friends. You would not g.,
lutte one Of my enemies II you pass.,
him in the street. Turn then from,
Rubens when you pass him in the nm.
seums, because IL you do not do so yo,,
are treacherous to my teaching and :.
me-" When he found Delacroix IN 4,
room containing one Of his pictures r.,
could hardly wait for the hated Roman
ticist to leave, so that he might open tn
window and purify the air. 1t Is na.
thetic and little amusing 70 read N.
references to him in Delacroixs journa,
The earliest of them is favorable enough
He goes TO the Luxembourg and sec,
there a picture, probably the "Roger
Delivrant Angelique," and notes simple
"Iagres chdrmdat' But Delacroix 20,
over that. The time came when he could
say Of an exhibition Of his rivals wor.
that 'it is the complete expression Of an
incomplete intelligence" Every biogra,
pher of Ingres finds it necessary to apol.
ogize for his attitude toward Delacroix.
lust as every biOgrapher of Delacrox
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-26

ccrto Of Viottfs. and later he liked to
recall that he had played the second
violin part in the Beethoven quartetS
organized by Paganini during his so
iourn al Rome. But il is TO he gathered
from Amaury that Ingres never eXag-
gerated his musical proficiency That,
as a craftsman he had the root ~ the
matter in him he showed when he WtS
only nine years old NJ. Lapauze has III
his collection a drawing, from the east,
that Ingrcs made then, a drawing aston
ishinglv good for one 50 young; ana 80
far as one may infer from the cI:licS.
relics at Montauban his hand thence
forth never fatered. His father gave
him his first training. and then sent him,
at the age of twelve, 10 study Under
Rodues, at Toulouse. He also h1d *
this time some instruction from Brian,
a landscapis remembered not so nucn
for his works as for his energy in saving
many Of the artistic treasures of
Toulouse from the vandalism of !H.
The student made rapid progress. At
sixteen he vas on his way To Paris.
where he entered the atclicr Of David,
and In five years he had won the Prix
dc Rome. Technically he was then one Of
the best equipped young artists of his
time and already he had begun To 'hink
for himself
Those were long. long thoughts Of his.
David meyer had - more loyal pupil, hu:
when Ingrcs settled down in Rome,
young. ambitious and happy, his ar
tistic character was as wax 10 receive
the impress Of Raphael's genius, and
Raphael. he felt in his soul, WAS IN M
mcasurably greater man than David.
Between the two Influences he proccede!
To beat out - style of his own. COM
pounded of Greek idealism and the truth
OF nature as he saw 10. We are to be-
lievc his detractors. and he has hal
many Of them, he frozc these elements
into formula. but when you come
really To trace his familiar walk and d.
neanor YOU find II impossible to regaid
him as an artist who lived by any giv"n
sol Of rules. devised 10y himself or by
ANYBODY disc He lived rather, b. IT,
stinct. by enthusiasm. and both We're for
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body, but 1t was his boast that he o'o
not know any of them by name. and iris
nice distinction between artistic anu
anatomical authority was very chac-
acterlstic. I'm the construction or
figure" he would say to his pupils GO
not proceed bit by bit, but build IT up at
stroke; get the ensemble" And again:
Draw purely, but with largeness. Pur-
ity and largeness, UOild le deSShi, C0ttd
PdH" Once he was prevailed upon 10
authorize the purchase Of skeleton Tor
the studio used by his pupils. Amaury
told his comrades that he would give
them fifteen days to retain their prop
erty," but by the end of the first week
Ingres had had the abhorrent thing
thrown out.
That last episode might seem to sug-
gest an incurable unwillingness to come
to close quarters with nature. and there
are sayings of his which nominally point
to a narrow arbitrary conception or
truth "In the images of man In art, ne
says. ''repose is the first beauty OF the
body, just as in life wisdom is the high
est expression of the soul" He chose
his subjects accordingly. But that sure
" was his right, and having made his
choice he proceeded on the hypothesis
that he could not be too faithful to the
actual object before his eyes. An old
pupil of his. one Granger, was looking
at the "Edipus," and, recognizing the
model remarked that it seemed to him
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besides there were thousands Of those
even more personal studies which show
the craftsman at his daily work. pre-
pairing for his exploits with the brush.
There are numerous paintings Also re-
nowned originals. and in certain cases
where great canvases of his have not
been available good copies have been
substituted. In the room that is first
entered, containing his portrait and par
TALLY embellished with decorations in re-
lief made by his sculptor father, there Is
glass-inclosed alcove where his desk
and violin, the gold crown bestowed upon
him In his old age, medals, manuscripts
and other relics are brought together.
The very spirit Of the man fills these
quiet old rooms. His whole career Is
illustrated. Musing here, one follows
him literally from his boyhood. amid tho
clash of Napoleonic developments, to
those last days In the COS when he car
ried himself in Paris like an ancient
Roman Senator. and, as the late AL
phonse L3Sfos loved to remember. his
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notes and reflections, catalogues the
works and adds number Of let
tors. II is curious that this pre-
cious volume, printed in 1870 has
never passed into now edition.
and that copies Of n are still To he
had at the publishers. ono would have
supposed that there would have been a
demand sufficient to have exhausted sew
cral editions long ago. VI. Boyer d'Agen
has produced good book. useful for the
documents it contains, IN his "Ingrcs
d'Aprcs unc Correspondence Inedite."
Invaluable services have been rendered
ITO the fame of the master by VI. Henry
l.apauzc. Some years ago he published
monumental work on the drawings,
accompanying his volume Of text with Il
portfolio of six hundred facsimilcs. and
only last year he printed a copiou5 and
well illustrated biography. In lie Roman
Glamour de NJ. Ingrcs" he has told the
rather cynical story of the painters
passing infatuatiOn with Julie Forester,
and ne has I'm preparation two volumes ot
the letters Of Ingrcs, u volume of hith-
crto unpublished documents. and de-
scriptive catalogue of all the works. NJ.
apauZc, in short, has made lngres his
own, and in the process has put us all
In his debt. But one must always turn.
as | have said, to Dclabordc. and there
Is one little book which is better worth
having than all the rest. This IS Late
licr dIngres," the collection Of souvenirs
which Amaury- Duval one Of his pupils,
published in 1873. Amaury, az he pre-
ferrcd to call himself in his own pages.
was "A disciple no less obscrvant thar
loving, and through his tenderly sympa-
tnetic descriptions and anecdotes We ara
brought close not only TO the painter but
10 the man.
As child at Montauban InEres felt
within him the STRINGS Of his destiny
He was only twelve when lie saw by ac-
ciGent some copies after Raphael p1d
come fragments OF antique sculpture.
He fell upon them, as he was wont 10
say just as cat falls upon its prey.
Delabordc tells, too. how the lad used to
weep with admiration as he shared with
his violin In the performance of some Of
Gmck's music. when he earned his bread
I'm the orchestra OF the theatre at TOu-
louise TWO arts claimed him in his
youth, but lie and his father both APP
pear to have realized soon enough
that he was meant To be painter ard
not a musician. He was, no doubt, a
fairly competent violinist. AS n boy he
won applause at Toulouse with a con-
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! seeks to explain away his observations
on Ingres.
There is. however, profitable sugges.
ton in that remark Of DelacroiXs about
Intelligence" Ingres painted the KIM
Of picture with which one not uTpatl.
rally associates ideas Of intelligence, *
reason. of carefully pOndered constru1.
ton. He was. emphatically, man wh)
mixed brains with his colors. But il is
even more important 10 remember that
pictorial idea, with IngreS rs with
Delacroix, stands for a jet ~ emotion.
He was not a native Of MontauJla for
nothing Impulse, a sudden and swift
inspiration, the conviction whose spring,
cannot be analyZed-these things wcre
forever influencing his work. TAKE. ;F
example, that mastery portrait OF W.
Berth in the Louvre which ranks amons
his highest achievements. | have aeard
II condemned by no less a person than
Whistler, who met my enthusiasm for II
with the round assertion that it was no
better than figure by Meissonier'
laboriously and nervelessly built I'D inch
by inch. with every button on the coat IN
the right place but with no life lett
II. Now as matter of fact, lnSres ga
york like "A slave on portrait OF Bertln.
The latter, telling Amaury OF the MAJ
ter's despair through sitting after s1-
ting, said, He weeps and pass my tiIpe
consoing him" At Montauban thers
are number of drawings showing ''
false and heartbreaking steps he TOOK
toward his goal. But when he .each'
that goal il was by leap. one nlynt Z"
dinner he observed Berth IN the poS7
that we know. come and sit to-ho
row." he whispered as they parte''
your portrait is made" and the NEXT
day. abandoning all that had oe'"
previously done. he attacked his c%h''S
with the certainty of success. III '@S
than a month the portrait was nnisue'
He could take infinite pains. lie tecos
nized his mistakes when he made p"e'n,
crying like a child as he cleaned theHi O'
the canvas and started again. Du' q"
bottom II was an affair of vision ho'
hand. that thus delayed him. He hdu
see his subject in tho right way - :,
as mere dexterity went lngreS %"
work miracles. Horace Nernet useU
say TO those who thought that he pa'ii'
with rapidity that they ought 10 20
Ingres at work. Beside him \erA'' ~
that he was no better than tortoise
One measure of his greatness Is a''''
sible In the resolution with which ho
fused to presume upon his facility VA
ter of line that he was, he insisted opV'
remaining its master No techhiVa'
source would ever be brought L! U.s.
into the foreground. Touch Oh WIZ"
some of his contemporaries were Pro''
make so much, struck him as on! S
abuse of execution, quality belohs'"'
to false talents, to false artists
painted pictures merely to sho" ~"
own adroitness. To magnify the
ton of touch" was, he malntaihe"
draw attention from the object iep'
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ent ioy to have at the back Of my mini
a sense Of the fact that Montauban was
only postponed. TO know that l would
presently be sitting at the feet of 1ngres.
The transition from the Spaniard to
the Frenchman is easily made. 1t is al
ways easy TO pass from one great artist
TO another. There are many modern
painters who can see only an impassa-
Bile gulf between VelasqueZ and 1ngres,
but then there are others who are con
scious of no gulf at all, fact of which
| was delightfully."- reminded when, on
the road back into France, paused at
Bayonne. Leon Bonnat was born in that
old Basque town, and to show his graft
tide for the municipal aid that had en-
sbled him TO pursue his artistic studies
In his youth he has given to his fellow
citizens a rich collection of pictures
drawings, sculptures and other objects.
This distinguished painter has all his
life long had a passion for NelasqueZ,
and has done much TO foster apprecia-
ton and emulation Of the master III
France. But, like Degas, he also Wor-
ships Ingres, and the Musee Bonnat con-
tains some perfect souvenirs of the lat
ter. Among the paintings there is
replica of the exquisite Mime. Devau-
cav" one of the triumphs of the paint
er's earlier period In Rome. IT is study
IN black and yellow, almost Whistlerian
IN the purity Of its tones and the simple
effectiveness OF their arrangement
There is, by the way. touching anec-
Gote relating 10 this portrait. Many
years after Ingres painted it an aged
lady, shabbily dressed, called upon him
in Paris. "You do not recognize me-"
she said. "and yet you have painted my
portrait. But" she slowly added. with
manifest embarrassment II was young
then. and. they said. beautiful l am
Nine, Devaucay. She went on to ex-
plain that Ill fortune had harassed her
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many noble antiquities, its atmosphere
is. on the whole, determined by the bust
ness activities Of to-day. The town wears
another aspect According to the Judi
cious Baedeker. its affairs are sound, and
/ assume, therefore, that its people are
comfortable, but the physiognomy Of
Montauban is somewhat severe II not
actually forbidding. 1t struck me IKE a
page out Of one Of Balzac's studies Of
provincial life. a place of cherries, in
communicative facades, Of dispirited
streets, ill-kempt and uninviting to a
degree not altogether explained by the
gray, wintry weather. There is scarce
any architecture of interest in the place,
the tower of the old Church Of St
Jacques. the double arcades around the
Place Rationale and the great bridge
across the Tarn being the sole monu-
ments having any weight or picturesque
ness. The ancient chateau Of the Counts
of Toulouse, which is now the Hotel de
VILE. has passed through many vicissi-
tudes and its present character, fixed in
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the seventeenth century. is in no wise
impressive. One turns 10 the buildlns
only because il contains the Muse
Inercs. Not alone in thus shelterlns
his works has the town sought 10 90
honor to its great man. At one ehd ol
the Promenade des Carmcs he has his
monument. a colossal affair by EteX. one
If his pupils. It ia seated hshie III
bronze set against relief reproducing
the masters "Apotheosis Of Homer
The portrait is tolcrahlc. The back
ground is beyond description inartistic
and rcpcllcnt. Hand on heart. ! 10 not
believe there is a more dcplorablo mona
ment in all Europe. one regrets this the
more because they gave NJ EteN
glorious site. The view from the prom
enade sweeps tho country for miles. and
it is lovely view. which in clear
weather. il is said, includes In" stan;
Pyrcnces.
! found tho museum locked and Seem
ingly deserted. but from his retreat in 4
corner of the huge. silent courtyard !
routed ont the concierge, a terrific and
explosive parsonage accompanied by an
infinitcsimal and madly excited puppy.
In an instant the noise in the place was
dcafcning. and il was with difficulty that
learned that the museum WAS closed.
| VIII not pretend, however, that | felt
at all discouraged, for there was, indeed.
too much humor i'm the idea Of ending
my long pilgrimage Just outside a locked
door. SO ] sat down to play with the dog
and give the concierge time TO finish his
rOars When he had at last lost his
breath told him how 10 go and find tho
conservator, and in a little while all IN"
reverberations had died away, a lean
and pensive garden had turned up from
nowhere. the doors had been opened and
shut behind me and | had begun 10 real
ize my cherished wish.
As il turned ont | was not 10 suffer
but the smallest shadow 81 a disappoint-
mcnt. There are not among the draw
ings as many Of the finished portraits
as / had expect ed 10 ind. but there were
enough of them. in all conscience, and
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nate in the work give it surprising
softness and depth. | was doubly glad
to see this picture on the threshold Of
Montauban
from Toulouse To Montauban, and the
brief journey takes one swiftly from The
present into the past The city is large
and prosperous, and, though it possesses
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not or would not, it was Idle to argue
sion" says Amaury, and the remark
brings up a fact which is not perhaps
generally appreciated. The classic calm
pervading his work and the gravely dig
nihed figure that Ingres presented to the
world, especially in his later Partisan
years. have withdrawn attention from
the southern passion Of his nature. He
was true Montalbanais, fiery impa
tient, and having small use for consist
ency or logic. over and over again
Amaury illustrates the tempestuous
habit of his master when contradicted or
in any way annoyed. When the CONVEX
sation took "A turn distasteful to him he
would move uneasily in his chair ana
beat with his fingers on the table. AT
dinner one night NJ. Theirs undertook to
develop the thesis that the Madonnas of
Raphael constituted his chief title to
fame 81 would give them ALL violently
exclaimed Ingres, yes, monsieur, all OF
them. for fragment Of the 'Disputa oc
of the School of Athens or of the Par
nassus,'" and ii was with difficulty that
his outraged temper could be soothed.
That volcanic way OF his was often
harmless enough. There was the case
Of the industrious young Lefevre, who
was very poor and suddenly absented
himself from the studio because he was
in arrears with the mdssier. He had
heen missed for two whole months when
lngres met him on the Pont des Arts
and wormed the truth out of him.
What. monsieur" he exclaimed would
Won insult me? Have given you the
siGht to speak to me In this manner
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beauty and the world we'll lost. lie had,
Of course, his theories, his principles,
but 1t is, | think, misleading To take
them too seriously. Beauty. he liked TO
say, as so many others have said before
him, resides in truth, but whcn truth
confronted him in an ugly shape he
turned his head away. There was MOTH
ing in him of that scientific passion ior
the exact fact which has been so widely
developed in modern art since his day.
He knew all the muscles in the human
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an idealized portrait. Ingres nearly lost
his temper. You may think what you
like" he said. but it is my effort to
copy my model as very humble SER
want and not 10 ideallze it," "ldealized
or not. 1t is very beautiful, retorteo
Granger. and there we have the art OF
Ingres in a nutshell Others may see
what he could not or would not see him
self. that his sense of beauty irresisu-
bly, governed him. Whether he could
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entrance into the Ecole des Beaux-Art
caused all those present to rise bare
headed 10 greet him.
His life may be reconstructed with ta-
cilitv. for he has had more than one zeal
Gus biographer. The first, and in some
ways still most authoritative memoir,
was written by his friend. the Nicomte
Henri Della borde whose book not on'y
traverses tho painters life. but repro
duccs voluminous series Of his own
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and that she needed. to her great regret.
to sell the portrait he had made Of her.
Ingres was profoundly moved. and with
characteristic energy found a purchaser
for the painting.
Bonnst secured several other i'm
portant replicas for his collection, and
'The previous articles in this series we're
printed in The Tribune on March II and "A and
May -
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