M. Eouesel Geo has completed the largest picture ever painted (says the Paris correspondent of the ‘Telegraph’). Jt measures exactly 807 square feet. The artist had to beg the loan' of a studio of suitable size from the State, and be and his easless, some 20ft high, "were, accommodated in the Galerie dee Machines, the largest oner spanned building in the world. The picture represents, the Paris crowd in 1789 rushing to the Hotel de Ville, led by Lafayette, after the taking, of the Bastille, and cc ®* a j ßS over 1,000 figures. It rml be hung in a suburban town hall—■ that q| Ivry.
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Evening Star, Issue 12763, 16 March 1906, Page 7
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105Page 7 Advertisements Column 1 Evening Star, Issue 12763, 16 March 1906, Page 7
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