. 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. nately few knew of their 1854 the architect whose glory it is that he nearly finished theLouvre demanded from him a group in stone for one of the inner facesof the Carrousel court-yard—a group of War. M. Lefuel was so wellpleased with War that he ordered three more groups on the spot, namelyPeace, Order and Force. Strange to say these groups are seen by morepeople and can be better studied in the
. 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. nately few knew of their 1854 the architect whose glory it is that he nearly finished theLouvre demanded from him a group in stone for one of the inner facesof the Carrousel court-yard—a group of War. M. Lefuel was so wellpleased with War that he ordered three more groups on the spot, namelyPeace, Order and Force. Strange to say these groups are seen by morepeople and can be better studied in the United States than in while Lefuel perched them high up beyond the range of ordinaryeye-sight, where they are overcrowded by the excessive ornamentation ofthe Louvre, the city of Baltimore has them on one of its open squares,just on a level with the eyes. The originals are of stone half the sizeof life, but they are rarely seen because impossible to examine prop-erly without a scaffolding. The reproductions are in bronze and ad-mirably adapted for examination. Perhaps they would be still betterseen in Baltimore if placed near a wall, because the sculptor designed 100. NO. 74. Group on Louvre
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