Pierre Grassou

Excerpt

Whenever you have gone to take a serious look at the exhibition of works of sculpture and painting, such as it has been since the revolution of 1830, have you not been seized by a sense of uneasiness, weariness, sadness, at the sight of those long and over-crowded galleries?  Since 1830, the true Salon no longer exists.  The Louvre has again been taken by assault,—­this time by a populace of artists who have maintained themselves in it.