LIBRARY CL. A A M. Knoedler & Co. NO. 326 | 14 East 57th St. le a New York ACC. Zual) al ream CATALOGUE FOREIGN PAINTINGS BEING THE PRIVATE COLLECTIONS OF THE LATE BERNHARD STERN NEW YORK AND OF WILLIAM T. EVANS JERSEY CITY (HIS ENTIRE COLLECTION OF FOREIGN WORKS) TO BE ABSOLUTELY, SOLD) BY AUCTION AT THE AMERICAN ART ‘GALLERIES | No. 6 Easr 23D STREET (MaApi1SsON SQUARE) On Tuurspay Eveninc, Marcu 6TH AT 8 O’CLOCK ON EXHIBITION DAY AND EVENING Tuomas E. Kirpy, AUCTIONEER AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, MANAGERS NEW YORK 1890 9aQ a & ad f / N\arc no fle Am CONDITIONS OF (SALE. 1. The highest bidder to be the Buyer, and if any dispute arise between two or more Bidders, the Lot so in dispute shall be im- mediately put up again and re-sold. 2. The Purchasers to give their names and addresses, and to pay down acash deposit, or the whole of the Purchase-money, ¢frequzred, in default of which the Lot or Lots so purchased to be immediately put up again and re-sold. 3. The Lots to be taken away at the Buyer’s expense and Risk on the morning following each session of the Sale, between 9 and 12 o’clock, and the remainder of the Purchase-money to be absolutely paid, or otherwise settled for to the satisfaction of the Auctioneer, on or before delivery ; in default of which the undersigned will not hold himself responsible if the Lots be lost, stolen, damaged, or destroyed, but they will be left at the sole risk of the Purchaser. 4. The sale of any painting is not to be set aside on account of any error in the description. All are exposed for Public Exhibition one or more days, and are sold just as they are without recourse. 5. To prevent inaccuracy in delivery and inconvenience in the set- tlement of the purchases, no Lot can, on any account, be removed during the Sale. 6. Upon failure to comply with the above conditions, the money deposited in part payment shall be forfeited ; all Lots uncleared within the time aforesaid shall be re-sold by public or private Sale, without further notice, and the deficiency (if any) attending such re-sale shall be made good by the defaulter at this Sale, together with all charges attending the same. This Condition is without prejudice to the right of the Auctioneer to enforce the contract made at this Sale, without such re-sale, if he thinks fit. THOMAS E. KIRBY, AUCTIONEER. INDEX TO ARTISTS REPRESENTED, BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES, AND OTHER INFORMATION, LUIGI ALVAREZ. Born in Madrid in 1841, in narrow circumstances, and early left an orphan. He contrived, however, to secure entrance at the Academy, and made his way thence to Rome, almost penniless and without resources to call upon for aid. His first picture, exhibited in Florence in 1861, though completed in the face of the most depressing difficulties, obtained a medal, and was pur- chased, when he carried it to Madrid for exhibition, by Queen Isabella, who pensioned the artist in order to enable him to con- tinue his studies. King Amadeus continued Alvarez in favor and gave him government commissions, and he has received honors from King Humbert of Italy. He has painted religious, historical, and decorative pieces of the first order, but has in recent years almost entirely confined himself to genre, in which he has won reputation and a competency. He has been one of the most influential men in shaping the present Spanish school of art. Like so many of his artistic compatriots he resides in Italy, but makes frequent excursions to Spain for study and in search of subjects. No. rr1—* Stoning the Contract... 2.0... eee. Page 91 J. A. AUFRAY. Born in Paris. His work has been almost entirely confined to domestic genre. ‘‘ Un Journal Amusant,” in the Salon of 1882, representing two choir boys in church after the service, laughing —— ——— a Se —. a —— THE EVANS AND STERN, COLLECTION. over a clerical caricature in a comic paper, made a decided hit. In 1883 he exhibited ‘‘ Aprés la Messe,” showing two choristers snowballing each other as they come out of church. He has also painted portraits with success, INO ree CHILO PCH AP PRIA M mes RG Salat ok hohe epee Sei § V. BACHEREAU (deceased). NOMGO= "OPAC G UAT LeSOR i RE ee Page 79 EMILE BAYARD. Born at Ferté-sous-Jouarre, Department of the Seine-et-Marne, November 2, 1837, he studied at Sainte Barbe, and in 1853 entered the studio of Léon Cogniet. His support while studying was the illustrated press and publications, by his con- tributions to which he became known long before his début at the SaJon. He came forward as a painter late in his career. In 1870 he exhibited a design called ‘‘ Sedan, ” which attracted notice and secured him the Legion of Honor. In 1875 his Salon picture, ‘‘ Waterloo,” was purchased by the National Lottery, and the preceding year, a triptych from Virgil was acquired by the State. One of his principal works is the decoration of the Foyer of the Palais Royal Theatre. Non ga aa TP PLOW GILL ss «wha: pine, sinh ae ee Page 92 JEAN JOSEPH BENJAMIN-CONSTANT. Born in Paris, June 10, 1845. Educated at the college of Tou- louse, and entered at the Art School of that city, whence, after gaining the annual prize, he was sent to the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, in 1867. He entered the Cabanel Class, and made | his first exhibits at the Salon of 1869—‘‘ Hamlet,” and ‘‘ Too Late.” In 1870 he served in the army. In 1871 he travelled in INDEX AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 5 Spain, painting with great industry and effective results, and next attached himself to the embassy of Charles Tissot to the Sultan of Morocco. ‘This accident opened up his true vocation to him. Here began the series of Oriental scenes destined to establish his fame. They commenced to command admiration from the start. They opened with the Salon of 1872, won him a Third Class Medal in 1875, one of the Second Class in 1876, and, at the Uni- versal Exposition of 1878, a Third Class Medal and the ribbon of the Legion of Honor. He was madea Chevalier of the Legion in 1884, and received one of the Gold Medals at the Universal Exposition of 1889. As a critic of and writer upon art—unbi- assed, liberal, and just—M. Constant is also highly esteemed. He has visited America several times, painting portraits and deco- rative compositions in New York, Boston, and elsewhere, and winning many social honors, NOwS4 =" La SUM 5 aie « inle pate pe ad ee Page 61 ETIENNE PROSPER BERNE-BELLECOUR. Born on July 28, 1838, at Boulogne-sur-Mer. In 1859 he entered the studio of Ficot. He earned his living as a photog- rapher during his student years, and received, at the Exposition of 1867, a medal for his proficiency in this art. Study con- sumed his leisure hours. His first paintings were studies of landscape, from which he advanced to costume pieces and rustic genre. He began exhibiting at the Salon of 1863, still working as a photographer, but in 1868 Vibert, who had become his brother-in-law, persuaded him to consecrate himself entirely to painting, and here his artistic reputation really began. In 1869 he received a medal. With Vibert, Leloir, and Detaille he made a visit to Africa, returning to engage in the War of 1870 asa private of francs-tireurs, where he won a military medal. After the war he devoted himself to military subjects. In 1872 his ‘*Coup de Canon” was rewarded with a First Class Medal. Popularity showered its favors on him. On a visit to Russia he LS EE SE EOI f F | t 6 THE EVANS AND STERN COLLECTION: was entertained with Imperial favor. In 1878 he received a Third Class Medal at the Exposition, and was made a member of the Legion of Honor. Asa painter of portraits and still life he has added to his fame. He is a skilful sculptor, engraver, and etcher, a draughtsman of the greatest vigor and accuracy, and a writer of talent. In collaboration with Vibert he pro- duced a play, ‘‘ La Tribune Mécanique,” that enjoyed great success at the Palais Royal Theatre, and he has written many independent original essays, sketches, and criticisms. PS Gs ee TIL MAMOES aaa icine ey cegesia at . Page 75 MARIE ROSA BONHEUR. Born at Bordeaux in 1822. She was the daughter of a struggling artist of mediocre merit, who eked out a living by painting por- traits, landscapes, signs, giving lessons, and making illustrations for the publishers. All of his children were talented, and became artists in time. He was so poor that, even with the assistance of his wife, who was an accomplished musician and teacher, the family had barely a subsistence. The death of his wife sent him and his children to Paris in 1829. Rosa, from babyhood, dis- played artistic tastes, and received lessons from her father ; but as soon as she was old enough she was apprenticed to a milliner to earn her living. Fortunately for her, her father in 1842 married a widow, Mme. Peyrol, an admirable manager, wife, and mother, who reorganized his disordered household and made it possible for Rosa to spend four years in study at the Louvre. In 1841 she made her déuzt at the Salon with two small pictures. Her success was almost immediate. From the commencement her pictures found purchasers, and her reputation grew until it culminated in a burst of glory in her famous ‘‘ Horse Fair,” now in the Metropolitan Museum of New York. Her fame thence- forth became as wide as the world, and to such an extent was international respect for her carried that when the Prussians in- vested Paris strict orders were issued by the Prince Royal to INDEX AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. V6 secure her house at Fontainebleau from molestation. She re- ceived a medal of the third class in 1845, first class medals at the Salon of 1848, and in 1855 at the Exposition, a second class medal at the Exposition of 1867, and was made exempt by special order in 1853. In 1865 the Empress Eugénie decorated her with the Legion of Honor, in 1868 she was made a member of the Antwerp Institute, and in 1880 she received the Cross of Leopold of Belgium and the Cross of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic of Spain. No. 132—“ Zhe Morning of the Hunt” ........Page 113 ANTONIO CASANOVA Y ESTORACH. Born at Tortosa, Spain, August 9, 1847. Entered at the age of thirteen under Professor Lorenzale at the local art school, his early years were attended by poverty and struggle. In 1871, encouraged by the counsels of Frederico Madrazo with whom he was then studying, he competed for the Prix de Rome, won it, and for four years ‘studied upon its pension in the Eternal City. In 1875 he visited Paris on business, and exhibited a picture. It was well received, and in 1877 he followed it with a second work, and settled in Paris to live and labor in what promised to be a rich field for him. In 1878 his “ Van Dyck at the Court of Charles I.,” in 1879 his ‘‘ Marriage of a Prince,” in 1880 his ‘‘ Héros de la Féte,” added to his reputation ; and his “¢ Sword and Gown” in 1882, a huge canvas, showing monks in the size of life arming themselves to defend their monastery against attack, confirmed the impression of his art and his place in popular favor. His scenes of court life in the seventeenth century are among his most important works, but his pleasant satires on the priesthood, full of suggestiveness and humor, have become much more extensively known. As a portrait painter, especially of women, he has latterly produced noteworthy work. No. 126— Brother Gorenflot” 0. ccs ecvreceees Page 107 THE EVANS AND STERN COLLECTION. JEAN BAPTISTE CAMILLE COROT. Born in Paris, of bourgeois parentage, in 1796. His father and mother were both prosperous, thrifty, and practical shopkeepers. He was first put as salesman in a cloth merchant’s shop, and failed to earn his wages. For five years he pleaded with his parents for permission to become an artist, and was, when they became convinced of his hopeless failure in business, finally given an allowance of two thousand francs a year, and bed and board in his mother’s dressmakers’ shop on the Quai Voltaire, upon which capital he commenced to study art under Michallon. Upon Michallon’s death he went under the tutorship of Victor Bertin till 1826, when he made a trip to Italy, where he worked much from nature in company with Aligny. He made his entry at the Salon in 1857 with a ‘‘ View at Narni” and ‘‘ The Cam- pagna.”” In 1833 he received a Second Class Medal, in 1848 and 1855 medals of the First Class, and at the Exposition Uni- verselle of 1867 a Second Class Medal. He was invested with the Legion of Honor in 1846 for his ‘* Forest of Fontainebleau,” became a Chevalier in 1867, and at the Exposition Universelle of 1878 was granted a diploma to the Memory of Deceased Artists. His pictures did not commence to find even a modest market till he was forty years of age, but at his death his annual income from his art reached two hundred thousand francs. He was a man of great benevolence, and dispensed a fortune for the relief of needy brother artists, living, himself, in the greatest simplic- ity and at very moderate and carefully restricted expense. He exhibited in every Salon from 1827 till his death, excepting in that of 1850, and at his decease left two pictures, ‘‘ Biblis”’ and ‘‘ The Pleasures of Evening,” for the Salon of that year. Corot died on February 23, 1875. No. 78—“ Evening, Ville d’ Avray”’.........4.. Page 55 No. 125—“ Les Saules”’ 2 INDEX AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 9 ORESTE CORTAZZO. Born in Italy, and educated in the Paris Ecole des Beaux Arts and under Léon Bonnat. He resides in Paris, and is held in esteem as a draughtsman of spirit and a painter of bright and attractive qualities, whose pictures never lack the merit of a good story, told with style and point. TARE RO RE EAS ane No, 106—“ Zhe Lavesdropper”’.......+......+. Page 86 Wie Be panied a Te. GUSTAVE COURBET. i Born at Ornans, 1819. In 1835 he was sent to Paris for the purpose of studying law, and took to art instead. He was from the start an innovator and an iconoclast. He studied a little fl under Steuben and Hesse, but mainly on his own account, by investigation of the works of the Flemish, Florentine, and He early showed his tendency to realism, and his revolutionary ideas were made so aggressive by personal vanity, and so offen- sive by openness, that from 1844 till 1849, when he received a medal, he was excluded from the Salon. Once he received a medal he could not be rejected at the annual exhibition, and so, F | year after year, the hostile jury were forced to hang pictures by | him which defied their traditions, insulted them, and almost cre- ated a public riot. In 1855 he made a separate exhibition of his | works, and at Munich he enjoyed a whole Salon to himself. He | received the Cross of the Order of St. Michael from the King | of Bavaria for this exhibition, which caused his later refusal of | the Legion of Honor to be construed into a premeditated insult to his own country. His open revolutionism and the disturbed state of politics made him dangerous, especially as he had com- menced to surround himself with followers, and his contest with the Salon kept up till 1871, when he threw himself body and soul into the Commune, became its Minister of the Fine Arts, and as such decreed the destruction of the Venddme Column, on | j ‘ ; : E | Venetian masters, and sent his first picture to the Salon in 1844. ie | | | THE EVANS AND STERN COLLECTION. the ground that it was a monument to tyranny. He was im- prisoned for six months for this act and heavily fined. After his liberation he lived in Switzerland until his death in 1877. No. 82—‘“‘ The Mountain Brook”. ....00ceveee Page 59 CHARLES FRANCOIS DAUBIGNY. Born in Paris, 1817, of a family of painters. His father, Edouard Francois Daubigny (1789-1843), was a landscape painter ; his uncle, Pierre Daubigny (died, 1858), a portrait painter of distinction in the Salons from 1822 until his death, and his aunt an excellent artist in still life. He became a pupil of De- laroche, but speedily abandoned academic study of the figure for the school of nature. He visited Italy at seventeen years of age, and in his early years as a painter supported himself by drawing on wood for the engravers. He painted chiefly river scenes, of the Seine and Oise ; received a Second Class Medal, 1848; First Class, 1851; Third Class, Exposition Universelle, 1855 ; First Class, 1857; Rappel, 1859, 1869 ; Legion of Honor, 1859 ; Officer, 1875 ; Diploma to Memory of Deceased Artists, 1878. Died, 1878. No, 71—“ The Normandy Coast” ...0..00 ces Page 48 ING 2 MGre "SF Cet gas. kta bad Chas ssa ene Page 53 ROBERT DE CUVILLON. Born in Paris, and a member of an old and aristocratic family. Educated at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He is a titulary member of the Société des Aquarellistes Francais, and highly favored for his genres of the period of Louis XIII., of which time he has made an especial study. No88—" Pour Passer le Temps. ceca ines oe 0 ee ae a eee INDEX AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. II HIPPOLYTE PIERRE DELANOY. Born in Paris, and devoted chiefly to subjects from the later medizeval period, commonly of a historical character. ‘‘ Les Condittori ”’ was one of the artist’s exhibits in the Salon of 1887. No, 1OO—“ Les COmgitio re. ie ig, ooh a eos eo Page 89 NARCISSE VIRGIL DIAZ DE LA PENA. Born in Bordeaux, August 21, 1808, of parents who had been exiled from Spain on account of his father’s political affilia- tions, he was left, at the age of ten, without means of support by the death of his father, his mother having previously gone to Paris, where she became a teacher of Italian and Spanish, inde- pendent of relations with her husband. He was sheltered by a Protestant clergyman, from whose care he was taken to a hospi- tal, where one of his legs was amputated in consequence of a bite of a poisonous insect. In spite of his mutilation he was a sturdy boy, and at fifteen was apprenticed to a porcelain manu- facturer, in whose workshop he commenced to paint. Art was entirely instinctive with him. He mastered it unaided and alone. Having quarrelled with his master, he left him and set up for a painter in Paris, subsisting, by incredible struggles, in the most grinding poverty. He had married, and so had a double burden to bear. He made color his chief study, and at first essayed genre pictures, but with small success. At the Salon, where he made his début in 1831, he went unnoticed, and he earned bare bread by his sales, through the dealers, of pict- ures at five and ten francs apiece. When, however, he turned his attention to landscape genre, he commenced to command attention ; and with devotion to landscape proper his reward came. In 1844 he won a third-class medal ; in 1846 he received one of the second, and in 1848 one of the first class. The Legion of Honor fell to him in 1851, and at the Exposition Universelle, 1878, a Diploma to the Memory of Deceased SSS ee Saas BERS TES ERE - Vane ARGaiaaatcn esc: | ————— eee 1 Tet PAVAUNIS) ALVIS LE LUNI COLE CALON | Artists was decreed to him. He was a man of enormous ¥. energy, and, in a species of money-madness, which came to him 4 with success, worked with tireless industry for a patronage which consumed all that he could produce. He was one of the founders and leaders of the Barbizon Colony. He died at Mentone in 1876 of natural causes, and not from the bite of a viper, as has been romantically reported. NO 1103 D LO BORCMIAUS cas Oe op 4 Rae Page 99 CHARLES EDOUARD DELORT. Born at Nismes, 1840. Entered at an early age at the drawing school at Lorient, he next gravitated to the studio of Gleyre, in Paris. He passed from this tutelage to that of Gérome, who was a friend of his family. In 1862 he visited Egypt with Géréme, and he travelled in Belgium, Holland, and Switzerland in search of subjects. His first Salon notice came to him in 1866, for his ‘‘Daphnis and Chloe.” In 1875 he received a Medal for ‘‘Embarcation of Manon Lescaut,” and in 1882 one for his ‘Capture of the Dutch Fleet by Hussars of the Republic.” Delort is the son of a French engineer, and of a New York lady of an old Santo Domingo family. He is wealthy by inheritance, and a man of great personal originality not unmarked by eccen- tricity. ING MOO ed He I ay ONL CHIE een oa. aett nats Page 37 No. 75—“ A General of the First Republic”... . Page 52 ALPHONSE MARIE DE NEUVILLE. -| Born at St. Omer in 1836. Educated for the civil service and z graduated as a Bachelor of Arts, he threw over his vocation to become an artist, entering the studio of Picot, and receiving advice and instruction from Delacroix, who had conceived a INDEX AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 13 fancy for him. He had become quite a proficient draughtsman at school, and while studying supported himself by making illustrations for the publishers. His inclination and education directed him to military subjects. In 1859 he first exhibited at the Salon, and won a Third Class Medal, by a military character study. In 1861 he received a Medal of the Second Class, in 1873 the Cross of the Legion of Honor, and in 1883 an Officer- ship in the Legion. His career for years was a contest for recognition made without assistance from his family. Almost from the start it was shared by a beautiful and brilliant actress, Mlle. Mariechal, who had left the stage to share his struggles with him. She was married to him on his death-bed. Pros- perity found him out when he had but few years left for its enjoy- ment. In 1884 De Neuville suffered a stroke which ended in partial paralysis. This continued, growing wider-spread, and Wi affecting his intellect until, on May 20, 1885, death ended his miseries. No: 61 A. Wer Picket Ses en as ae Page 38 JEAN BAPTISTE EDOUARD DETAILLE. i Born in Paris, October 5, 1848. He was educated at the Lycée Bonaparte, where he developed a decided talent for drawing, and when, at the age of seventeen, he graduated as a Bachelor | of Arts and exhibited some of his studies to Meissonier, that master invited him to become a pupil. In 1867 he exhibited Bul his first Salon picture—the ‘‘ Interior of the Studio of Meissonier” Bh being the subject. The following winter he accompanied his | master to the Mediterranean coast and began his work as a painter of martial scenes and characters. In 1869 he received his first medal. In 1870 he obtained his first experience of real warfare as a private soldier, and afterward as a topographical i draughtsman, and for his first picture of this period he received another medal, In 1872 he created a sensation by sending to the Salon a picture representing German soldiers convoying 14 THE EVANS AND STERN COLLECTION. j : : | i q i | wagon-loads of stolen property out of France, and called ‘‘ The if Conquerors.” It was not admitted, for fear of irritating the = | German ambassador, but Detaille was, as a compensation, given i a second-class medal for another picture, and in 1873 received a the Legion of Honor. He was made a Chevalier in 1881, re- : ceived the Medal of Honor at the Salon of 1888, and at the Exposition Universelle of 1889 won one of the Grand Prizes. His ‘* Passing Regiment ” and ‘‘ Defence of Champigny ” are in the Metropolitan Museum, New York. It is said that the only orna- ments on the walls of the bedchamber of the Emperor William of Germany were engravings after battle-pieces of Detaille and De Neuville, under the former of which the Emperor had written with his own hand: ‘‘ Homage from the victor to the van- quished.” INOMOB =" 0/dGIS “DOUANOLS sccurred almost without warning, on October 6, 1889. The sale of hisstudio effects, in January, 1890, in Paris, produced a large sum. No, 124-—“ The Rivwlet oc... cise sfelane. oe Res 105 FRANCOIS FLAMENG. if Born at Paris in 1859, the son of the eminent painter aud en- graver Leopold Flameng, he studied under his father, later be- Bi coming a pupil of Cabanel, Hédouin, and Jean Paul Laurens. In THE EVANS AND STERN COLLECTION. painting he perhaps approaches closest to Laurens, not so much in style as in his methods of conception of a subject and of composition. His strongest pictures have been those of the period of the French Revolution, although it was his powerful and effective ‘‘ Barbarossa at the Tomb of Charlemagne ” that made a sensation for him by its weirdness in the Salon of 1876. In 1879 ‘‘ The Roll Call of the Girondists’* secured for him a Second Class Medal and the Prize of the Salon, and was pur- chased by the state. His ‘‘ Massacre of Machécoul, 1793” was the occasion of much comment in the Salon of 1884. and his “Camille Desmoulins’ Last Day with His Family,” another Salon exhibit, is one of the most touching episodes art has drawn from history. NOt oe fe Lele Lay Stoner ne et Page 101 PIERRE EDOUARD FRERE. Born in Paris, 1819. A pupil of Delaroche, he commenced with pictures in the style of his master which attracted no attention. In 1843 he made his début in the Salon in an entirely new field, and secured immediate recognition. He had, at Ecouen, where he thenceforth lived and worked, made the discovery of a type of rustic childhood which was destined to render him famous. Diligent and tireless, he produced a large number of charming works, which have been absorbed by the great collections of Europe and America. In 1850 he received a Third Class Medal and another in 1855. During this year Ruskin’s enthusiastic praise made England an open market for him. In 1852 he re- ceived a Second Class Medal, and in 1855 the Legion of Honor. In 1870, when the Prussians were plundering Ecouen, his house, by royal order, was left unmolested. He died in 1886. No. 72—“ Testing the Broth” .....+.eeesvees Page 49 INDEX AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 17 DRESS Cn TSR Ce peices JOHN FREDERICK HERRING. The son of the leader of English farm painters. His father was born in England in 1795, being the son of an American settled there. The elder Herring’s childhood was necessitous, and his inclination to art, early displayed, was wholly self-developed. He worked as a house and sign painter, and later drove a stage coach. He first attracted attention as a draughtsman and painter of horses, and finding a market for his work devoted himself td it entirely. He designed much for publication, and painted scenes of farm and stable life with great appreciation. He died in 1865. The son was his pupil and follower in art. No. 65—“ The Farm Vard, Winter” .......... Page 42 LEON GIRARDET. Born in Paris, son of the famous painter of that name and a pupil of his father and of the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He paints successfully both in oil- and water-colors, his subjects being chiefly drawn from the life of the latter half of the last century, and the periods of the Consulate and Empire. No. g1—“4 EAUPEUUOTT eres at Jee aseh ora Page 71 PAUL GROLLERON. { Born at Seignelay, Yonne, and a pupil of Bonnat, he has de- voted himself to military subjects with success. His début at the Salon was without notice, his contributions consisting of portraits and genre pieces ; but in 1882, after several years of obscurity, his ‘‘ Combat dans une Usine ” gained for him an Hon- orable Mention, and in 1886 he secured a Medal with a spirited battle-piece. No. 07-—" On. the. Outpost” 0c cscvnce cess Page 87 2 ee een ie Eads 18 THE EVANS AND STERN COLLECTION. JEAN LOUIS HAMON. Born at Plouha in 1821. A pupil of Delaroche and of Gleyre, he made his first exhibit at the 1848 Salon. Poor, light hearted, free of his purse when he had anything init, he encountered hard fortune with a fearless face ; but, in spite of his courage, he was compelled to enter the Sévres factory in 1849 and take up porcelain painting for support. He remained at this employment until 1852, when, being again on his feet, he returned to the easel. In 1853 he received a Third Class Medal for a Greek subject in the Salon, and it was purchased by the Minister of the Emperor’s household. At the Exposition of 1855 he re- ceived a Second Class Medal and the Legion of Honor, and at that of 1867 another Medal and a Chevaliership. Hamon, with a loose hand on his purse-strings, lived an improvident life, and in 1862 was fairly driven out of France by his debts. He lived in Naples, Pompeii, Capri, and Rome, diligently working and paying off his debts, until, in 1871, he was able to return to Paris. But the progress of a disease, contracted and neglected in his youth, had made fatal inroads on his constitution, and in May, 1874, it carried him off. Théophile Gautier said of him, apropos of his proverbial generosity in money matters, that he was one of the most gifted, most generous, and most grossly abused painters that. ever lived. Nig oes GrandiOlner S CATES ove te: Page 10 oO > JEAN JACQUES HENNER. Born at Bernwiller, Alsace, March 5, 1329. His father, a poor but intelligent working-man, encouraged his artistic bent, and he made his first studies at the College of Altkirchen, under ‘Goutzwiller, from whom he learned drawing, after which he be- -gan to paint with Gabriel Guérin, in Strasbourg. Thence he advanced to Paris upon a pension from the Department of the ‘Upper Rhine, and became a pupil of Drélling and of the Picot INDEX AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 19 school. In 1858, just as his pension expired, he won the Prix de Rome with a picture entitled, ‘‘ Adam and Eve Discovering the Corpse of Abel,” his chief competitors being Jules Lefebvre and Léon Bonnat. His early works were chiefly idyllic or biblical in subject, and his ‘‘ Susannah,” 1865, his ‘‘ Good 1,” 1875, represent him at the TEESE TLE OES VTL Sea Samaritan,” 1874, and his ‘‘ Naiad, Luxembourg. He excelled alsoin portraiture, his ‘‘ Bernwiller Carpenter,” painted by him at the age of fifteen, being still regarded as a remarkable work. He received Medals in 1863, 1865, and 1866, the Cross of the Legion in 1873, and was made a Chevalier in 1878, when he also received a First Class Medal at the Exposition Universelle. Henner’s studies of flesh, especially inthe chastest types of feminine loveliness, have made him most famous and won for him critical comparison with Corregio, and it is by these that he is widest known, at the expense of other and equally powerful works. He is personally intensely patriotic, a Frenchman to the core, and his ‘‘Alsace,” 1870, which made the tour of Europe, is one of his most im- portant pictures, and aroused the greatest enthusiasm wherever exhibited. NO. Tt0== La- MiameHarn oo eee Page 96 LEO HERMANN. Born at Paris. He owes his whole success in the start toa single picture, ‘“‘ A Good Story,’’ which: was exhibited in the Salon of 1876. This composition represented two priests who have been trading tales supposititiously the reverse of clerical with each other, until one particularly spicy and happy anecdote has made a special hit and found approval in roars of laughter. The sly satire won the heart of Paris. Numberless reproductions popu- Jarized this work all the world over.. The painter followed it with another rap at the priesthood, in 1877—‘‘ The Scandal of the Day.” This and his ‘‘ At the End of Arguments,” exhibited in 1875, have also been published. He has not restricted his.art THE EVANS AND STERN COLLECTION. No, 104 No. 1182—" Saseite’s’ SUppers” . oo. oe re. eS Page 98 to the clergy, however, but has painted many pictures that have achieved popularity by their cheerful spirit and fine detail and finish. St Ame ORIG ea SSTDIO I 2 Mate iad Serie Page 84 CHARLES EMILE JACQUE. Born in Paris, 1813. Apprenticed to a notary, and ran away to become a mapmaker. Enlisted in the army in 1830 and served for seven years, practising drawing from life continually and sell- ing his sketches, when he could, for a franc apiece. After his discharge he became a draughtsman on wood and a wood en- graver, for two years in England and afterward in Paris. In 1845 he commenced to paint. In 1851 he received a Third Class Medal for Engraving ; Rappel, 1861 ; 1863, for Engraving ; 1861, Third Class Medal for Painting; Rappel, 1863; First Class Medal, 1864; Third Class Medal for Engraving in Exposition Universelle, 1867 ; Legion of Honor, 1867. First president of the French Society of Animal Painters, and an etcher of the first merit. DRO Oper OM CHE Ld UT ESTA O anc ae oes Page 44 Now 73