THE PARIS SALOP. Striking Pictures to be Exhibited

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 203, 14 May 1887, Page 2

THE PARIS SALOP. Striking Pictures to be Exhibited

Tiikhe are to be some striking pictures in »this year's Salon. The number^ of pieces sent for selection Vill be greater than last year, when it amounted to 7,300. Bonguereau will have a companion piece to his " Cupid Disarmed " of last year called "Cupid Victorious." Benjamin Cpnstant will contribute two canvases — one' "Theodora" and the other " Orpheus." Theodora is represented sitting on her throne in all the splendour of the Byzantine 1 * Empire. This will no doubt be one of thp most noticeable pictures of this year's collection,' not only because of the rich Oriental imagery with which it is' conceived*" and finished, but be vcause of the fame of the subject by the play of " Thoodoiu." Constant's picture of "Orpheus" is a very largo one. Orpheus is shown after the death of Eurvdice and is mourning her loss. Wishing to avoid the light of day in his great grief, lie seeks a dark mountain recess just as the rays of the morning sun begin to appear. (Jerome will contribute, not a painting, but a marble statue representing the dame who subjugated Hercules'. Omphivle loans on the club of Hercules the skin of a Xumidian lion being thrown over it, while Heieules himself is at her feet with a band tied over his eye-: by Cupid. A large cam as by Brouillet, it is expected, will lie the sensation of the year. It rcpicsenK Dr. Chariot giving a lesion at Saltpet riere to hi^ pupils and some invited guests. Ho stands at a table, one arm half extended toward the audience. His assistant, Dr. Babinisky, stands near, holding a woman stricken with hysteria. The hospital nurse stands watching, ready to give any possible relief. A picture called " Deserted," by Mosier, an American aitist is spoken of in \ery hi*»h teims. It is a large canvas, and represents a, sick Indian girl and hei mother, an aj>ed squaw, being abandoned on the western plains by their tribe. The girl clings to her mother, who crouches by her side, wearing on her face a look of indescribable agony and helpless despair. Hridgman, another American artist of much repute, ha* n pieco representing a view of the city of Algici> a< seen from the top of one of its tlat-toofed houses.