. Art in France. i),-;.\ I ur\ui I JEANNE DAUl. Uliice des Pyramidcs, Paris ) NATURALISM. ilG. 931.—FALGUIERE. SAINTVINCENT DE PAUL. (Pantheon, Paris.) Chapus Youth presenting the palm of the hero to Henri Regnauh, Antonin Mercies Gloria Vidis and other worlcs offered their pride and grace as a salve to national pride. Happy the sculptor who can thus fix the emotion of a whole people in a beautiful form! Even the somewhat trivial charm of Pradiers statue in the Place de la Concorde has taken on a sort of mournful beauty. Several sculptors have been happily inspired by Jeanne dArc, because
. Art in France. i),-;.\ I ur\ui I JEANNE DAUl. Uliice des Pyramidcs, Paris ) NATURALISM. ilG. 931.—FALGUIERE. SAINTVINCENT DE PAUL. (Pantheon, Paris.) Chapus Youth presenting the palm of the hero to Henri Regnauh, Antonin Mercies Gloria Vidis and other worlcs offered their pride and grace as a salve to national pride. Happy the sculptor who can thus fix the emotion of a whole people in a beautiful form! Even the somewhat trivial charm of Pradiers statue in the Place de la Concorde has taken on a sort of mournful beauty. Several sculptors have been happily inspired by Jeanne dArc, because a great wealth of sentiment is inherent in such a figure. Chapus Jeanne is a humble peasant girl ennobled by her communion with the supernatural. Paul Dubois, with sword uplifted and eyes fixed on a celestial vision, urges her horse against the enemy. Fremiet s grasps her oriHamme, graceful and tri-umphant as a Saint George (Fig. 930). There is no danger of lack of ideas forexpression in a country where the generalconsciousness is vibrating with life, fullof memories, ready to feel in c
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