DOI Heft:
No. 184 (June, 1912)
DOI Artikel:Paris, William Francklyn: The opening exhibition of the French Institute in the United States
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43449#0455
Exhibition of the French Institute
r 1 A HE OPENING EXHIBITION OF
THE FRENCH INSTITUTE IN THE
UNITED STATES
1 BY WILLIAM FRANCKLYN PARIS
The Museum of French Art, Institut Fraricais
aux Etats-Unis, has been formally inaugurated by
the French ambassador; His Excellency Gabriel
Hanotaux, former minister of foreign affairs of
France; and the Honourable McDougall Hawkes,
chairman of the board of trustees of the American
Association.
They were assisted by a distinguished delega-
tion numbering among its members M. Fernand
collector of prints in Europe, was not the gorgeous
and bespangled Ville Lumiere of the present day.
The Paris of the Grands Boulevards and of the
Place de 1’Opera, of the Rue de la Paix and the
Champs Elysees, of that entire festive region to
which all good Americans are said to journey
when they die, dates back to the time of Napoleon
HI., of much maligned memory. Before Napoleon
“the little” the streets of Paris were as the tor-
tuous and narrow alleys of ancient Boston, only
more so.
Visitors to the Paris Exposition of 1900 re-
member the staff and stucco and papier-mache
reconstruction of the Rue Saint-Antoine in the
Cormon, president of the
Academy of Fine Arts,
Count de Chambrun, rep-
resenting the Prime Min-
ister of France, etc.
The exhibition was thrown
open to public view at the
rooms of the Sculpture So-
ciety in the building of the
Federation of Fine Arts,
New York City, and con-
sisted of a superb collection
of prints, engravings, etc.,
selected for the exhibit by
Mr. Marcel Poete, librarian
of the City of Paris, and
offered particular interest in
that they permitted an im-
aginary reconstruction of
the French capital as it was
as far back as 1600.
Since the earliest official
plan of the city to be pre-
served bears the date 1550,
it will be seen that theicono-
graphic collection shown by
the Institut Francais pos-
sessed, beside its artistic
value, an historical and
documentary value far
above anything placed upon
exhibition here in many
years.
The Paris revealed by
the engravings, etchings and
lithographs loaned for this
exhibit by the Carnavalet
Museum and Mr. George
Hartmann, who ranks pos-
sibly as the greatest private
CLUNY MUSEUM
BY FREDERIC VILLENEUVE
CI
r 1 A HE OPENING EXHIBITION OF
THE FRENCH INSTITUTE IN THE
UNITED STATES
1 BY WILLIAM FRANCKLYN PARIS
The Museum of French Art, Institut Fraricais
aux Etats-Unis, has been formally inaugurated by
the French ambassador; His Excellency Gabriel
Hanotaux, former minister of foreign affairs of
France; and the Honourable McDougall Hawkes,
chairman of the board of trustees of the American
Association.
They were assisted by a distinguished delega-
tion numbering among its members M. Fernand
collector of prints in Europe, was not the gorgeous
and bespangled Ville Lumiere of the present day.
The Paris of the Grands Boulevards and of the
Place de 1’Opera, of the Rue de la Paix and the
Champs Elysees, of that entire festive region to
which all good Americans are said to journey
when they die, dates back to the time of Napoleon
HI., of much maligned memory. Before Napoleon
“the little” the streets of Paris were as the tor-
tuous and narrow alleys of ancient Boston, only
more so.
Visitors to the Paris Exposition of 1900 re-
member the staff and stucco and papier-mache
reconstruction of the Rue Saint-Antoine in the
Cormon, president of the
Academy of Fine Arts,
Count de Chambrun, rep-
resenting the Prime Min-
ister of France, etc.
The exhibition was thrown
open to public view at the
rooms of the Sculpture So-
ciety in the building of the
Federation of Fine Arts,
New York City, and con-
sisted of a superb collection
of prints, engravings, etc.,
selected for the exhibit by
Mr. Marcel Poete, librarian
of the City of Paris, and
offered particular interest in
that they permitted an im-
aginary reconstruction of
the French capital as it was
as far back as 1600.
Since the earliest official
plan of the city to be pre-
served bears the date 1550,
it will be seen that theicono-
graphic collection shown by
the Institut Francais pos-
sessed, beside its artistic
value, an historical and
documentary value far
above anything placed upon
exhibition here in many
years.
The Paris revealed by
the engravings, etchings and
lithographs loaned for this
exhibit by the Carnavalet
Museum and Mr. George
Hartmann, who ranks pos-
sibly as the greatest private
CLUNY MUSEUM
BY FREDERIC VILLENEUVE
CI