Charles De Kay

Excerpt from Barye: Life and Works of Antoine Louis Barye, Sculptor With Eighty-Six Wood-Cuts, Artotypes and Prints in Memory of an Exhibition of His Bronzes Paintings and Water-Colors Held at New York in Aid of the Fund for His Monument at Paris One object toward which this work tends is the establishment of sculp ture in its proper place by the side of painting. Whatever diversity of opinion may exist with regard to the psychological effect exerted by the grim statuettes of Barye on observers, it will be acknowledged that sculp tures on a small scale, wrought with the learning and skill he showed, deserve more than common encouragement at present. They form the taste of those who buy them, and tend to save the people from wastingtheir wealth on bad art. The exhibition at the American Art Galleries begins a veritable mission work in favor of sculpture for the house and home. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Life and Works of Antoine Louis Barye, Sculptor with Eighty-Six Wood-Cuts, Artotypes and Prints in Memory of an Exhibition of His Bronzes Paintings and Water-Colors Held at New York in Aid of the Fund for His Monument at Paris (Classic Reprint)

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