Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-27
Art Studies
Tell q Story
ofHdte's Act
Marie Antoinette in Her Royal
Robes and in a Chenise,
Doomed to Death.

In an art atelier in Newark are two
pictures representing Marie An
toinette at different periods of her
tragic life. One is a beautiful Paris
print of that celebrated painting of
Paul Delaroehe in which the queen is
represented at the moment of her
condemnation; the other is a repro
duction of the Natter painting. ex-
hibited some years ago. picturing the
consort of Monsieur Veto" in all the
glory of her royal attire, her lovely
head adorned with the marvellous
pompadour coiffure
Paul DeIaroche Canvas.
In the first Delaroehe painted the
hapless daughter of an empress erect,
proud but, true to historical fact,
gray, haggard, despairing, a mourn
full sight for gods and men. The
artist, cold. correct poured into the
conception of the painting all the
genius which he had developed under
the training of his master, Gros. The
son-in-law of Horace Nernet in this
canvas exhibited all those merits
which made him an idol to be wor-
SHIPPED by his students, who finally
ru ned or marred his fame by their
indiscriminate alteration.
The second canvas shows the queen
,, at the time when she was beginning
to excite the hostility of the Parisians.
As one gazes at it there comes pain
fully to mind the horror of the scan
dial which overwhelmed this doomed
woman. Only those who have seen
that dreadful book. LA Messaline
Franchise" can understand the
fiendish malignity of the hate which
fell like a rain of fire upon the head
of Marie Antoinette.
This unspeakable book, the very CHI
max of human depravity, was widely
disseminated in Paris and throughout
France in the days of the Terror"
and sealed the fate of the queen.
The two pictures of which | speak
should always be viewed together.
Hecate herself would laugh with un-
holy joy at the portrayal of despair in
the one; the hearts of the pitiful must
be filled with anguish as they study
the other and recall the sequel.
In the last the queen is at the age
when, by the veritable irony of the
devil she sang a favorite song, lie
Carlton National" to the air of which
We're afterwards set the words of that
terrible song of the revolution. "Ca
Irai"
The Macmillans have lately pub
lished a book by Lady Younghusband
painting the life of Marie Antoinette
in her early married life. 1t Is graph
ically written, but it does not explain
the fatal failure of the Dauphine to
win the heart of the Parisians.
Her Brother-in-layv's Judgment
Some time ago, in the Revue DIES
Deux Mondes, there appeared a
study of the character and career of
his sister in law by the Comte de
Provence, Louis XVIII. His judg-
ment is that French society could
not accept the fact that the leader of
that society was not a mistress even
when she was queen.
French court society had always
had mistress and was determined
that the new feminine head of the
royal encourage should conform to
usage sanctioned by centuries in the
mind of Frenchmen. Thus, as the
Comte de Provence says, calumny
foully exaggerated what faults there
were and when the supply failed In
vented others which did not exist.