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ART EDUCATION. 
Paris were mostly established some time ago by capable artists, 
and at a later date were subventioned by the commune. Of these, 
the schools of E. Levasseur and Just. Lequien are still the most 
prominent. At the Exhibition, the works of their pupils were 
incorporated into the “ Exposition de la Ville de Paris,” where the 
contained in G. v. Lützow’s “Art and Art-Industry at tlie Yienna World’s 
Fair, 1873,” Leipsic, 1875, p. 2(i8, &c. 
“ We have before ns tüe ‘ Liste des Objets exposes par la Ville de Paris ’ 
(Exposition universelle de Vienne, 1873. Paris, 1873. 143 pp.). What were tbe 
objects principally exhibited by tbe city of Paris V Tliey were objeots of art. 
“ Under tbe heading 1 Service des Travaux d’Architecture,’ we find the Palace 
of Justine by J. L. Duc, tbe Chamber of Commerce by Bailly, the Church of 
St Ambrosius by Ballu, the Church of St. Augustine by Baltard, the Church 
of St. Bernard by Magne, the Church of St. Francis Xavier by Lussou, &c., 
several communal and school bnildings, the fountain of the ‘ Theätre inuicais ’ 
that of St. Michel and Luxembourg by Davioud, and so on. Tlie most inter- 
esting objects are the projeets for the restoration of the ‘Hotel de Ville,’ 
especially those by Ballu and Deperthes, which received tlie first price. It 
will be seen that the city of Paris employs independent architects in the 
erection of its bnildings. 
“Tliis section is followed by the ‘Service des Beaux Art.s,’ consisting of 
Peinture (paintings, designs, water-colors, pliotographs, painted Windows), 
Sculptvre, Gravüre (medals, copperplate engravings), and Tapisseries. The 
catalogue of the ‘Service des Beaux Aids’ takes up flfty-fourpages, and is 
well worthy of detailed inspection. 
“Among the historical painters who have been employed by the city of 
Paris, there are to he found artists of all tendencies: Barrias, Delacroix, both 
the Flandrins, Blaize, Hesse, Jobbe Duval, Lehmann, Lenepveu, Robert- 
Fleury, Signol, Yvon, and otliers. 
“ Most of the oil, fresco, and giass paintings were executed for the churches 
of the city of Paris, tlie lesser number only having been executed for otlier 
public bnildings; tlie same is true of the sculptures. In tliis department 
artists of various tendencies are also met witli: Carrier-Belleuse, Duret, Fre- 
miet, Guillaume, Maillet, &c. Tbe old custom of coining medals in niemory 
of important events bas been kept up by the city of Paris. 
“Among the copperplate prints there are specimens, executed in line- 
maniier, from paintings which belong to the city of Paris. In short, tliis ex- 
hibition of tlie city of Paris was a hint to all those who desire to know why 
art fiourishes so vigorously in France. It is not only because the art-schools 
of France are better organized, and are inanaged in accordanee witli liigber 
principles, than elsewhere, but it is also because the arts are provided for in 
the billiget of the commune.” 
Fortunately for America, we are not encumbered witli a state church, so 
that tlie religious brauch of art is out of the question witli us. But would not 
the bare white walls of the lialls of our public schools, of tlie couneil chainbers 
of mir city eonncils, or of our legislative lialls, offer a splendid fieid for the ex- 
ercise of the powers of a Corning race of American historical painters 'i—TransL