. 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. study which Barye himself did but initiate ; circum-stances prevented him from carrying it very far. There is however in this direction a field for the development ofbronze surfaces which the founders in Paris like M. Barbedienne haveby no means explored. Color in bronze statues has been generally left tochance. When a public statue is cleaned it is scraped and rubbed fromtop to bottom and a coating applied,
. 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. study which Barye himself did but initiate ; circum-stances prevented him from carrying it very far. There is however in this direction a field for the development ofbronze surfaces which the founders in Paris like M. Barbedienne haveby no means explored. Color in bronze statues has been generally left tochance. When a public statue is cleaned it is scraped and rubbed fromtop to bottom and a coating applied, the results from which are, that fora time the bronze looks uncomfortably shiny, then grows dull and endsby appearing soiled and covered with streaks and blotches. Study ofsmaller bronzes will teach the lesson that public monuments should notbe overhauled at the end of ten years or so by irresponsible and ignorantemployees of some department of a citys government. They should beunder the constant care of men who know how by judicious rubbingsto bring out the finest points of a bronze and keep these always promi-nent. It would have been well had Barye put on record what are the 58. 00CO OZ THE EAGLE FOR THE AECH OF TRIUMPH best methods of preserving bronze statues, for no one has lived whounderstood so much on the subject from direct practical he was able to observe for forty-two years the effects of acity atmosphere on one large bronze, the Tuileries lion. Unfortunatelyhe incurred by such studies the ill-will of the professional founders inbronze, who succeeded in giving currency to the report that his greenpatinas were deleterious to the health of those who cast and owned them. Ill The patronage of Louis Philippe and his little prime minister did notstop at orders for small bronzes. It considered the employment of snchextraordinary talents as Barye had developed for the adornment of thepublic squares. In his enthusiasm for Barye there was talk by of
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