. 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. care—and alsounfortunately infected with reproductions, some of them secret andfraudulent, others openly manufactured and sold under the protectionof the law. It should be remembered to the credit of M. Barbedienneof Paris that, while he makes the best of all reproductions of Baryesbronzes, having bought at the sale after the sculptors death a greatmany models and originals, yet he also takes pains to show on
. 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. care—and alsounfortunately infected with reproductions, some of them secret andfraudulent, others openly manufactured and sold under the protectionof the law. It should be remembered to the credit of M. Barbedienneof Paris that, while he makes the best of all reproductions of Baryesbronzes, having bought at the sale after the sculptors death a greatmany models and originals, yet he also takes pains to show on eachbronze in the plainest possible fashion that his are not originals butcopies. A round brass stamp will be found inserted in all such bronzes,making it impossible for the ignorant or the dishonest to sell one forBaryes handiwork. Barye did not meet with such scrupulousness often, for it is said thatone member of his own household was base enough to palm off wretchedpieces on the world, thus stabbing the father in his most sensitive founder who obtained possession of models by Barye issued a greatquantity of poor things and the sculptor was not able legally to stop 94. NO. 71. TARTAR WARRIOR CHECKING Hi I -. AMERICANS DISCOVEE BARYE it. Another fabricator however, not protected by law, was caught athis tricks and his shop seized by the police. In foreign countries Baryesanimals have been copied right and left for such iron lions and dogsas some people buy at the weight in metal for the decoration of theirgardens. It may be said, however, that in these extreme cases the work-manship was bad that no reflection was cast on the originator. Not so with the Parisian copies, legal and illegal. They are still atrouble, because they give themselves out for Barye bronzes and arereadily mistaken for the best by persons who have no little artistic tastebut happen never to have studied bronzes enough to guard them frommistakes. In such matters people are no more to be blamed th
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