Studio: international art (82.1921)

STUDIO-TALK

" LOUIS XIV." BAS-RELIEF IN
MARBLE BY PIERRE PUGET

(Musee de Longchamps, Mar-
seilles)

thoroughly informed work such as that
by Dr.jMacGillivray, Mr. H. S. Gamley,
Mr. Percy Portsmouth, Mr. A. G. Wyon,
and among the Frenchmen, MM. Bar-
tholom*, Bouchard and Desbois. a a

A. E.

PARIS.—Marseilles, the birthplace of
Pierre Puget, has been celebrating the
tercentenary of that great sculptor of the
classical school. The event passed almost
unnoticed in Paris, possibly because the
majority of connoisseurs in the metropolis
are wholly occupied with modern art move-
ments. It is the fashion with many to
neglect classical sculpture—if not to treat it
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with disdain. Yet there must have been
some, on the occasion of this celebration,
who went to the Louvre to see Puget's mag-
nificent Milo of Crotona, his Andromeda
delivered by Perseus, and those other works
which were formerly in the park and cha-
teau of Versailles. At Marseilles, of course,
thousands of people flocked to the Musee
de Longchamps to view the special exhibi-
tion of sculpture, paintings, and drawings
which, under the able superintendence of
the curator, M. Gibert, had been arranged
in two of the rooms of the art gallery. These
works included the noteworthy bas-relief in
white marble of Louis XIV., here repro-.
duced, a fine head and bust of Christ en-