. 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. ver-present law of hunger brought them together in a strugglewhere the weaker must succumb. It looks so easy—but how could hehave done it unless he saw them in the act with his own eyes ? To askthe question is to assert that their maker is a genius. II Theophile Silvestre published a very appreciative essay on Baryein his Histoire des Artistes Vivantes which appeared in 1856 with aportrait by Flameng on steel
. 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. ver-present law of hunger brought them together in a strugglewhere the weaker must succumb. It looks so easy—but how could hehave done it unless he saw them in the act with his own eyes ? To askthe question is to assert that their maker is a genius. II Theophile Silvestre published a very appreciative essay on Baryein his Histoire des Artistes Vivantes which appeared in 1856 with aportrait by Flameng on steel which has been retouched by that etcherfor our frontispiece. The year before an English observer, Bayle , called attention to his merits in The Louvre, a work publishedat London by Chapman and Hall. M. Barye is assuredly one of thegreatest artists that France possesses he wrote; one of those also whohave been most roughly tried in the course of a life fertile in master-pieces of a deep and enduring character. The death in 1855 of thesculptor Rude who composed the only brilliant reliefs for the Arc deTriomphe and also contributed groups full of audacity and fire to the 88. : • .-. ■-- THE JAGUAR DEVOURING A HARE decorations of the Louvre must have made people think that Baryetoo was growing old. But the article by Gustave Planche in the Julyissue of the Revue des deux Mondes of 1851 brought him first beforethe scholars and connoisseurs of France. These owe that acute andvaliant critic much for constituting himself the life-long championof an artist who could not or would not advance his own interestsby intrigues and prayers. The following year the Salon accepted a Jaguar Devouring a Harewhich contains that ferocity and that gluttonous enjoyment of itsprey we find in all the cat tribe. The modeling of the jaguarsshoulders and head was of the broadest, so that it bespoke a greatchange in the standards the jury kept before them that the group wasentered at all. But it
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