. 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. 2 he received an order of an eques-trian statue of Napoleon I in bronze to be erected at Ajaccio, Corsica, aspot he had never seen and indeed never did see, the monument beingerected without his presence or care. The Sainte Clotilde at theMadeleine is sweet of face and graceful as to drapery but the NapoleonI at Ajaccio comes perilously near being a failure. Yet to the epoch1850 to 1860 belong statues and gro
. 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. 2 he received an order of an eques-trian statue of Napoleon I in bronze to be erected at Ajaccio, Corsica, aspot he had never seen and indeed never did see, the monument beingerected without his presence or care. The Sainte Clotilde at theMadeleine is sweet of face and graceful as to drapery but the NapoleonI at Ajaccio comes perilously near being a failure. Yet to the epoch1850 to 1860 belong statues and groups into the making of which thebest powers of Barye went. His merits as an artist risen from theranks of artisans were never denied. Only he suffered from the castefeeling which introduced itself into such matters from the surroundingsocial atmosphere and which bade him remain an artisan and ceasetrying to be an artist. We need not be surprised to find him in 1863 President of the Con-sultative Commission for what is called the Central Union of Artsapplied to Industries. His statuettes were indeed conceived andmodeled on a scale which adapted them to enlargement, but they were 98. o -SSH^H^^^^^Hk THE LION OF SOLID SILVEE table and mantel ornaments nevertheless, even as Baryes enemiessneered. More strictly belonging to the field of arts applied to in-dustries are the candelabra, such as those showing a stag rubbing itsantlers against a trunk, or those designed on the poppy plant as thetheme of ornamentation. In the Hdtel Pereire at Paris is a clock witha decoration by Barye never repeated and therefore unique. Thefigures of the Hours lead onward the horses of the Sun while Apollohimself guides the chariot. Separate studies for the chariot and femaleHours together with a standing and a seated Apollo are in the owner-ship of his daughters. Without ever becoming popular Barye had thus won for himself inhis sixty-eighth year an enviable reputation as a sculptor and thewarmest of fr
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