FRENCH ART FROM THE LUXEMBOURG MUSEUM MARCH

The Detroit Museum of Art has received word from the French Government that its request for the Luxembourg Collection had been granted, and that this retrospective exhibition of paintings and sculpture by French artists from 1870 to 1910, which was originally sent to America as part of the French section of the PanamaPacific International Exposition will be available for the Detroit Museum of Art during the month of March. It will be a satisfaction to those who saw the contemporary French Exhibition at the Museum in October to compare the work of the French artists of the present on the "qui vive" for new sensations, with the work of their predecessors of the past few decades. The Luxembourg Museum pins the official badge of recoginition upon the artist of today, and taking his work into its custody, preserves it until the perspective of time shall grant it its proper place among artistic achievements. The restive period from 1870 to 1910 in French art has seen many new tendencies struggling for supremacy. For this reason the group of pictures sent out by the French Government to exemplify the various manifestations will appear heterogeneous. Typical examples of the academic, the romantic, the realistic and the impressionistic movements are hung side by side in the same gallery. But if each individual canvas is studied, one may glean something of the evolution which French painting has undergone in four decades. As varied as it may seem, one may discern fundamental truths which justify the paternal protection of the Luxembourg Gallery. Among the artists represented are JeanJoseph Benjamin Constant, Leon Bonnat, Pascal Adolphe Marie De Neuville, Alexandre Cabanel, Emil-Auguste CarolusDuran, Henri Ilarpignies, JeanJacques Henner, Jean-Paul Laurens, Gustave Moreau, Pierre-Cecile Puvis De Chavannes, Alfred Phillippe Roll, Felix-Francois-GeorgesPhilibert Ziem, Eugene Carriere, Edgard Hilaire Germain Degas, Ignace Henri Jean-Theodore Fan-