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Description:Cordier, a French sculptor, appears to have founded a new order of his art, if the term is admissible, though the style does not seem as yet to have attracted many followers-not even one, so far as we recollect. Neither do we believe it likely to have any, for its adoption by another artist would at once declare its source, and deprive him of all claim to originality, which, perhaps, is the chief merit of the "order;" this may be called ultra-realistic, for it consists of the combination of two distinct materials in a single figure, bronze or dark marble to imitate the skin of the negro and other coloured races, and white or variegated marble for the white races of mankind and for draperies. The most striking works executed by M. Cordier after his manner are some statues of Eastern women, which many of our readers, doubtless, will remember to have seen on the staircase leading to the picture-galleries of the International Exhibition at South Kensington in These figures are singularly attractive; the bronzed head and bust seem a perfect imitation of the natural features, while the colours of the variegated marbles used for the draperies almost realised the truthfulness of real textile fabrics.

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