. The table book of art; a history of art in all countries and ages . ry art sympathy centres there. It is said, on good authority, that the sale ofpaintings last year in Paris amounted to over $8,000,000, and that the average popula-tion of artists in Paris is 8,000. The Government is behind all this immense organiza-tion. There is in France a Minister of Fine Arts, appointed as much a matter ofcourse as the American Government appoints a Secretary of the Interior or a Secre-tary of the Treasury. His portfolio is joined to that of Public Instruction, whichmeans that proper education in the Fi
. The table book of art; a history of art in all countries and ages . ry art sympathy centres there. It is said, on good authority, that the sale ofpaintings last year in Paris amounted to over $8,000,000, and that the average popula-tion of artists in Paris is 8,000. The Government is behind all this immense organiza-tion. There is in France a Minister of Fine Arts, appointed as much a matter ofcourse as the American Government appoints a Secretary of the Interior or a Secre-tary of the Treasury. His portfolio is joined to that of Public Instruction, whichmeans that proper education in the Fine Arts is considered by France the highesteducation of the highest civilization. The famous names of the modern French school which we have not been able toembody at length in this work, but which names, in all instances, are richly deservingextended record, are as follows: Chintreuil, Bonnat, Fromentin, Merle, Le-compte, Daubigny, Zeim, Lalanne, Allonge, Jacques, Regnault (dead), Lambinet,Harpignies, Rousseau, Gide Bern/er, Toulmouche, Schenck, Defaux, Van Marke,. THE ANNUNCIATION. {From the original painting by Alex. Cabanel.) L E VS. 219 Mauve, Levy, Chaplin, Dubuffe, Carlos Duran, Tissot, Detaille, De Neuville,Protais, Philippoteux, Pasini, Belly, Volon, Appian, Antigna, Armand, Dumer-esque, Baron, Barrias, Bayard, G. Becker, Bougereau, Boulanger. Comte, (whose Louis XI. and the Performing Pigs attracted such attention in thePhiladelphia Exhibition of 1876). Curzon, Cot. Feyen-Perrin, Goupil, Hebert,Henner, Huey, Laurens, Lecomte-du-Nouy, Mazerolle, Perrault, Priou, Plassan,Ribot, Bida, Veyrassat, Vibert, Vidal, Worms, Yon, Berne-Bellecour, J. LewisBrown, Luminais, Moreau, P. Baudry (the decorator of the New Opera House) andGavarni. We might have very considerably extended this list of distinguished Frenchartists, because, as we have said, there are at least 8,000 artists and students of Paint-ing in Paris to-day; and when we take into consideration the organized encourage
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