. Art and criticism : monographs and studies. penalty of losing all public esteem, and was by thistime gradually becoming a little more liberal. He obtainednine votes, and vowed never to make the experiment a secondtime. Thanks, however, to a friendly subterfuge, he was in-duced to become a candidate again in 1868, and this timehe was elected, and so, thanks to the efforts of Lefuel, theInstitute was saved from the shame of not having countedBarye among its members. The story, as it was related tome by M. Henri Dumesnil, is this: Lefuel, after having talkedseveral times to Barye about again be
. Art and criticism : monographs and studies. penalty of losing all public esteem, and was by thistime gradually becoming a little more liberal. He obtainednine votes, and vowed never to make the experiment a secondtime. Thanks, however, to a friendly subterfuge, he was in-duced to become a candidate again in 1868, and this timehe was elected, and so, thanks to the efforts of Lefuel, theInstitute was saved from the shame of not having countedBarye among its members. The story, as it was related tome by M. Henri Dumesnil, is this: Lefuel, after having talkedseveral times to Barye about again becoming a candidate, in-vited him to breakfast one morning. After the coffee Lefuelpretended that he had a number of visits to make, and insistedthat Barye should come with him in his carriage. We cancontinue our chat en route, said the architect, as he put Baryein his coupe, and gave the coachman the address of a memberof the Institute. When the carriage stopped at the door, Le-fuel said to Barye, I am just going up to see so-and-so; you o o. ANTOINE LOUIS BARYE. 211 know him; come up with mc; he will be delighted to see Baryc went up with Lefuel, and as they were comingdown-stairs, when the visit was over, he said to the sculptor: There! you have made your first visit. Now go and makethe others, ce nest pas plus difficile que 9a. And at last,after the renewed assurances on the part of Lefuel that hiselection was this time certain, Barye made the visits whichthe etiquette of the Institute demands from all candidates, andso he was finally elected. After 1848 Barye had lived successively at Rue St. Ana-stase in the Marais quarter, Rue des Fosses St. Victor, andRue Montagne Sainte-Genevieve, and finally he had settledon the Ouai des Celestins, where he continued up to the endof his life to publish and sell his own bronzes. Having losthis first wife and the children he had by her, he had remar-ried, and a new family had grown up around him; but forreasons which we need not
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