. 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. bjects of art to a re-alization of his worth. It may well be questioned whether the small anddevoted band in France who were the first to appreciate Barye andtrumpet his praises could ever have overcome the dead weight of popularindifference had they not been assisted from the other side of the At-lantic. For many years it was supposed in France that anything wasgood enough for Americans and in consequence of
. 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. bjects of art to a re-alization of his worth. It may well be questioned whether the small anddevoted band in France who were the first to appreciate Barye andtrumpet his praises could ever have overcome the dead weight of popularindifference had they not been assisted from the other side of the At-lantic. For many years it was supposed in France that anything wasgood enough for Americans and in consequence of that supposition itwas believed that painters and some few sculptors got rid of their infe-rior wares to rich citizens of the United States. One fine day somebodyhad the hardihood to remark that the Yankees were not so stupid as theyseemed and were even taking away masterpieces. The statement wasscoffed at for a while, until one writer after another corroborated thereport, and some even made use of intemperate language as is the wontof certain Parisian journalists when foreigners are concerned, takingAmericans to task for draining France of the finest canvases of thetimes. 126 Ii. cS £ v— 63 M <1 fc GO GD fc ,4 O © H a E-> ^ Oh X O x £ ^R Eh *H 63 63 S fc o GOOD OF AMERICAN COMPETITION However one may smile at the folly of imputing in Americans sucha compliment to the French as a crime, the fact remains that the largeprices for bronzes by Barye and paintings by Delacroix, Millet, Rous-seau, Corot and others of the Barbizon school, have had a powerfuleffect in France. They have increased the average Frenchmans respectfor his own artists and caused him to pay gladly such prices for worksformerly neglected as he never would have believed possible. Anextreme instance was the price Monsieur Proust wished to pay forthe Angelus by Millet at the sale of M. Secretans gallery; another wasthe great price the government did pay for the Deer Covert by it be true that
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