. 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. s are on the surface; below the technical shortcomings lies thepower that came of a profound study and understanding of animalsin their bony structure, their flesh and hides, their movement. Alexandre gives an anecdote of Delacroix that means agreat deal.* Barye presented to Lefuel the architect of the Louvretwo water-colors of tigers, before which Delacroix used often to stopin admiration; and somet
. 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. s are on the surface; below the technical shortcomings lies thepower that came of a profound study and understanding of animalsin their bony structure, their flesh and hides, their movement. Alexandre gives an anecdote of Delacroix that means agreat deal.* Barye presented to Lefuel the architect of the Louvretwo water-colors of tigers, before which Delacroix used often to stopin admiration; and sometimes he took the trouble to make a rapidsketch of them. Occupied in a way so flattering to their maker, con-sidering the mastery he has shown in painting animals, Delacroixexclaimed: I shall never be able to give the curl of a tigers tailas that fellow can ! And the truth thus blurted out may be observedin twenty bronzes by the sculptor. No artist before or since Baryehas known so well how to render the expressions that the great andlittle members of the cat family register by the sinuous movementsof their tails. * A. L. Barye, par Arsene Alexandre, Paris: Librairie de LArt, CRUELTY TO CAPTURED ANIMALS IV A prison is a horrible and unnatural thing, but men in captivity-have at least their minds to occupy them; work, books, exercise andeven play relieve the tedium of their lives a little. A spider is taughtto be the comrade of the prisoner in a dungeon and rats learn to comeat his call to cheer his solitude. The wild beast however, as it paces toand fro in its bare cage with nothing to see beyond the bars but troopsof staring meu, is a yet more pitiable sight. Every now and then thetiger will stop and gaze fixedly, the round pupil dilating a little, as if in awaking dream of freedom in the jungle. Then with a hoarse smoth-ered roar that is a sigh, the striped beast falls again to its monotonousstride, to and fro, to and fro, a movement which some instinct causes itto make
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