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Show Frcncli Lovers of Art Anxious. French lovers of art are becoming anxious anx-ious over the distribution of many priceless price-less treamts in the past year among English. German and American collectors. collect-ors. The original gallery of General Hacquin, the Napoleonic general who Backed the city of Pavia, has been broken bro-ken up. World renowned originals of the early Italian, Dutch, Flemish and French schools went, most of them, to London and Berlin. The absence of any national reserve fund for the purchase of such treasures is much regretted. The annual subsidy allowed to the government govern-ment galleries "is only $30,000. It is urged that the unused fund of nearly $2,000,-000, $2,000,-000, the product of the sale of the crown I jewels, be devoted to this purpose. A ' email admission fee at the Louvre is also j advocated for the double advantage of ; keeping out loafers and raising revenue I to puchase additions. Art Journal. |