Art and criticism - monographs and studies (1892) (14782307204)

Identifier: criticismmo00chil (find matches)
Title: Art and criticism : monographs and studies
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Child, Theodore
Subjects: Art criticism
Publisher: Harper
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO



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ANTOINE LOUIS BARYE. 197 commissions from high persons, and almost the much-desiredopportunity of executing a monumental work, the Institutesuddenly refused to admit his bronzes to the Salon. In 1837the five groups representing scenes of lion, tiger, bear, bull,and elk hunting, ordered by the Duke of Orleans, were re-fused admission to the Salon, on the ground that they werenot sculpture, but goldsmiths work. From 1837 to 1847 there is a lacuna in Baryes life. Natu-rally offended by this last insult offered to his talent, he didnot exhibit again at the Salon until after the revolution of 1848,when a freely elected jury had replaced the vexatious jurisdic-tion of the Academy. Meanwhile he by no means posed as amartyr, but seeing that there was no chance of producing mon-umental works, he pocketed his disappointment, and keepingall his feelings to himself, continued to live his life with thataustere calm and reserve which had been as remarkable inBarye at the age of twenty-five as it wa