Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . eat success dates back to 1904 when he exhib-ited at the New Salon the canvas entitled My Wife andHer Sisters which was purchased for the collection of theMusee du Luxembourg. He came to America for the first time in 1913 andremained here but four months. Early in 1914 he returnedwith the intention of remaining longer, but the War cameand Caro-Delvaille answered immediately the call of hisFlag. Back he sailed for France and, once in uniform, helearned the bitter life of the trenches. He fought at Ypresand Arras, in the Vosges and in Champagne until 1916,when his hea
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . eat success dates back to 1904 when he exhib-ited at the New Salon the canvas entitled My Wife andHer Sisters which was purchased for the collection of theMusee du Luxembourg. He came to America for the first time in 1913 andremained here but four months. Early in 1914 he returnedwith the intention of remaining longer, but the War cameand Caro-Delvaille answered immediately the call of hisFlag. Back he sailed for France and, once in uniform, helearned the bitter life of the trenches. He fought at Ypresand Arras, in the Vosges and in Champagne until 1916,when his health gave way completely and he was honorablydischarged. Thus he came again to New York, this timewith his wife and his son (who is going to enter one of thegreat American universities) and took a studio on Wash-ington Square. Shortly afterwards he gave an exhibitionof his paintings, and, for the first time in America, the pub-lic had the opportunity of being acquainted with the remark-ably decorative quality of his art. 7 i. SELF PORTRAIT In 1918, thanks to the initiative of its Director, theBrooklyn Museum was able to exhibit in its galleries the en-tire collection of the French art section of the Panama-PacificInternational Exhibition which could not be returned toFrance on account of the unsafe condition of shipping, and,included in its Contemporary Paintings Division, was Caro-Delvailles Lady with the Hydrangeas. It was given aplace cVhonneiir and when the exhibition was taken down,it was not stored away with the rest of the collection but keptin a prominent position with other paintings of the Frenchschool belonging to the jNIuseum. Then tlie armistice wassigned, the hostilities ended, and, one day, we were told to 78 pack. We did . . but made a successful attempt to keepthe Lady with the Hydrangeas and it was thus that, thislast month, it has been purchased for the permanent collec-tion of the Museum. For the Lady with the Hydrangeas is not the ordi-nary portrait, painted
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