. 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. at. The wax runs off, leaving every delicate linemade by the sculptors boaster exactly reproduced in the mold. Observein the wood-cut of this group how the hair of mane and tail has beenshown in the bronze. Or examine the plaster cast at the Museumin Central Park, New York. If the bronzeman is an expert he willknow how to fill every such fine inward dent in the mold with bronzeof the best quality, unblemished
. 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. at. The wax runs off, leaving every delicate linemade by the sculptors boaster exactly reproduced in the mold. Observein the wood-cut of this group how the hair of mane and tail has beenshown in the bronze. Or examine the plaster cast at the Museumin Central Park, New York. If the bronzeman is an expert he willknow how to fill every such fine inward dent in the mold with bronzeof the best quality, unblemished by air bubbles, and so perfectthat the slow and unsatisfactory chiseling of the cast shall not beneeded. The process requires great skill and is, or used to be, veryexpensive. Fortunate was Barye in these points, if in few others. Life had indeed begun to smile for the young sculptor, already marriedand a father, but very far from having escaped the ills and ignominiesof poverty. After such rebuffs as he had won ten years earlier from theSalon it was a subject for congratulation to have them accept so manygroups, figures, water colors and medallions. But to have a group bought 32. CHEVALIEK OF THE LEGION OF HONOR by government for a public site was enough to turn his head. Close onthe heels of this success came the decoration as Chevalier of the Legion ofHonor with the coveted right to wear a small end of red ribbon in thebuttonhole, at sight of which the ubiqiiitous French sentry is bound topresent arms. Many other attentions and conveniences are offered tothe wearer of the red ribbon. The Prince of the blood was his patron aswell as the Princess Marie, for to the Prince Royal went that joviallittle statuette the Bear in its Trough, which M. Barbedienne hascast in bronze and popularized in copies that retain a good deal ofBaryes power. Patronage in high places was about to cause Barye toundertake some of the most notable groups he ever produced, groups,in the opinion of some
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