. Barye : life and works of Antoine Louis Barye ... in memory of an exhibition of his bronzes, paintings, and water-colors, held at New York, in aid of the fund for his monument at Paris. xposition made such a design perilous,because all attention would centre on the Champs de Mars; but othersheld that among the floods of French and foreign visitors a certainnumber would remember Barye, and that even a fraction of so large acrowd would serve to increase the fund. The exhibition was accord-ingly held, and so far as first proof bronzes, models in bronze, clay,terra-cotta and wax are concerned no
. Barye : life and works of Antoine Louis Barye ... in memory of an exhibition of his bronzes, paintings, and water-colors, held at New York, in aid of the fund for his monument at Paris. xposition made such a design perilous,because all attention would centre on the Champs de Mars; but othersheld that among the floods of French and foreign visitors a certainnumber would remember Barye, and that even a fraction of so large acrowd would serve to increase the fund. The exhibition was accord-ingly held, and so far as first proof bronzes, models in bronze, clay,terra-cotta and wax are concerned none could have been more there were plaster models of the great groups in stone atMarseilles and a hundred objects treasured by Baryes children and hisparticular friends which lend so much interest to a showing in thenative place of an artist. Nevertheless financially speaking the exhi-bition was a failure. The flood of visitors set so powerfully towardthat epitome of the world, the city reared just across the Seine from theTrocadero, that no side rills found their way to the Ecole des BeauxArts. Instead of adding to the fund there was a deficit from the exhi- 134. cc o 7. THE BARYE EXHIBITION IN NEW YOEK bition of Baryes works. Thus by reason of the overwhelming interestof the great fair the small side show was forgotten. Meantime the United States had taken so many of the bronzes, oilsand water-colors of Barye that a suggestion for an exhibition in NewYork, at the same time with that in Paris, was very natural. It led tothe formation of the Barye Monument Association, a list of whose offi-cers will be found in the appendix, and the decision that an exhibitionof works by A. L. Barye owned in the United States should be held inautumn at New York to collect funds for the monument to be erected atParis. When the Paris exhibition closed the plaster cast of the LionCrushing a Serpent shown there became available, and at the sugges-tion of Mr. George A. Lucas, the a
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