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Pupil of the Julian Academy, under Robert-Fleury, and Jules Lefebvre, where she received, in 1888, the prize of the silver medal and one hundred francs the highest award given at the annual Portrait Concours, between the men and women students of the above Academy. Among Miss Klumpke's principal works are: "In the Wash-house," owned by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; portrait of Mrs.
Her water-color of "Clematis and Virginia Creeper" is in the Museum at Tunis. In the summer exhibition of 1903, at Évreux, this artist's "Peonies" and "Iris" were delightfully painted full of freshness and brilliancy, such as would be the despair of a less skilful hand. At the Limoges Exposition, May to November, 1903, Mme. Faux-Froidure was announced as hors concours in water-colors.
Without pride, I believe myself in a position to succeed what sportsmen call 'in condition. And just when I have only a few days to wait, behold me ruined forever." "Why forever?" "A man leaves his village for Paris to make a name for himself, and he returns only when bad luck or inability sends him back. And then it is only every four years that there is a 'concours' for admission.
A great deal of unsuspected talent has been developed, it appears, by these experiments, as I have heard them called," he went on chokingly, with blazing eyes, in a gallant attempt at cold irony; "and much more may be waiting still. Enough, in fact, to justify a concours how do you say? a competition." He clenched his fists against his rigid thighs and turned his face away. "A competition?
This was on the occasion of varnishing-day at the salon of native painters Russians and Poles; where were exhibited works by men hors concours, together with those of advanced students: both classes being required to pass an incorruptible committee of twelve, who spared neither veteran nor tyro.
Although these last months had been full of terrible agitation for him, on account of everything connected with the affair of Caffie and Florentin, and above all, on account of the fatigue, emotion, and the fever of his 'concours', yet he had not interrupted his special works for a day or even an hour, and his experiments followed for so many years had at length produced important results, that prudence alone prevented him from publishing.
Finally De Chauxville bumped against the object of his quest possibly, indeed, the object of his presence at the Concours Hippique. He turned with a ready apology. "Ah!" he exclaimed; "the very man I was desiring to see." The individual known as "ce Vassili" a term of mingled contempt and distrust bowed very low. He was a plain commoner, while his interlocutor was a baron.
<b>ABBATT, AGNES DEAN.</b> Bronze medal, Cooper Union; silver medal, Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics' Association. Member of American Water Color Society. <b>ABBEMA, MME. LOUISE.</b> Officer of the Mérite des Arts; honorable mention, Salon of 1881; bronze medal, Paris Exposition, 1900; Hors Concours, 1903, at Exposition of Limoges. Born at Étampes, 1858.
<b>ACHILLE-FOULD, MLLE. GEORGES.</b> Medal, third class, Versailles, 1888; honorable mention, Paris Salon, 1894; medal, third class, 1895; medal, second class, 1897; Hors Concours; bronze medal at Paris Exposition, 1900. Officer of Public Instruction; member of the Société des Artistes Français. Pupil of Cabanel, Antoine Vollon, and Léon Comerre. A painter of figure subjects and portraits.
This system is the concours, competition, a modern invention, essentially bad; bad not only in science, but wherever it is employed, in arts, in all selections of men, of projects, of things.
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