Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-02
Notable Collection Sent to Ma
tionaI Gallery in Recognition
of War Aid.
REPRESENTS THE WORK
OF THE MODERN MASTERS
Contributions Include Sketches in
Water Color, Crayon. Pencil and
Ink and Clay Modelling.

A notable addition has been made to
the National Gallery at Washington
The people of the French republic have
presented to the people of the United
States, as a token of their appreciation
of the action taken by American citl-
zens toward relieving the distress oc-
casioned by the European war, a col
lection of pictures by prominent artists
of France. This collection, which has
recently been placed on view in the
National Museum, comprises no less
than eighty-two items, and includes
works in water color, crayon, red chalk,
pencil, pen and ink. pastel. charcoal
and India ink.
The pictures are mainly sketches,
some probably made as studies, and for
this very reason they have eXtraordi-
nary interest and value. The drawings
by the old masters of the Italian renais-
sance are now the most priced posses
Sions of public museums and private
collectors. These drawings presented
by the French people to the people OF
America are the works of the masters
in art of France today. Such drawings
and sketches are of a peculiarly init
mate and personal character, and In
some respects represent the genius of
the artist even more than his finished
works.
Long List of Contributors.
The list of those who have contributed
to this collection is long and will be found
to constitute the honor roll in art of
France today. No single school or circle
is exclusively represented. There are
works by academicians, those who hold
to the old traditions, tonalists, impress
sionists, post-impressionists and modern
lists. The veteran landscape painter,
Henri Harpignies, has contributed land
scape sketch in charcoal. This painter,
who is now more than ninety years of
age, is the only surviving member of the
famous school of 1880 and has had the
uncommon experience of seeing his own
fabulous values.
Leon Bonnat. who is now eighty-two
years of age and has been for many years
one of the foremost portrait painters of
France, the official portrait painter. 1t
might be said, has sent pencil portrait
Of no less distinguished a man thar Fer
dinand de Lesseps, the great engineer, to
whose vision We owe not only the Suez
canal, constructed under his direction, but
also the Panama canal.
Carolus- Duran, the teacher of Sar-
gent and many other painters of great
distinction. has contributed a sketch OF
a lady. in pencil. From Francois
Flameng, in whose ateier many OF
the leading American artists have re-
ceived inspiration and instruction, has
come water color Saint Cloud, June
4th. 1906"
A third great teacher. Jean Pau
Laurenz. whose painting OF Saint Gene
We've in the Pantheon, Paris, s rot only
known but greatly admired by visitors
to that city, is represented by pencil
sketch of a soldier Leon A. Liner
mite, famous for his harvest scenes
has sent charcoal drawing of har-
vesting group of peasants. His pic
ture in the Luxembourg of a somewhat
similar subject is very famous In the
Corcoran Gallery at Washington. the
Metropolitan Museum and other Ameri-
can art galleries he is represented.
Joseph Bail has given crayon pic
ture of French women making lace, q
subject of which he has made a spe-