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| INVASION OF CUPID'S REALM - This oil painting,
sometimes known as the Wasp's Nest, hung on the north wall of gallery
56, East Pavilion, off the rotunda, in the French Section of the Art Palace. It is the work of brilliant
Adolphe Bouguereau, of Paris, and is owned by Mr. Charles T. Yerkes,
of Chicago. The painting was loaned by its possessor to the French
Commission. Mr. Yerkes is a lover of great paintings, and has
gathered a collection which is already celebrated in the world of
modern art. It is possible that no other painter has ever acquired
the skill of Bouguereau in limning the nude female form, and the
controversy over "the nude in art" finds an attorney on the side of
the nude in the sincere admiration which his works have elicited all
over the world. Bouguereau was the pupil of Picot, and was born at
La Rochelle, France, November, 1825, and now at the age of
sixty-nine, has been famous for thirty years. He was made a member
of the Legion of Honor in 1859 for his magnificent paintings, and
advanced through all the degrees to that of commander in 1885. He
was also a member of the Institute of France in 1876, and a Knight of
the Order of Leopold in 1881. |
