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Returning To Paris Without: The two artists had allowed themselves to be seduced by the unrestrained life of the metropolis. But now that Picasso was returning to Paris without hisfriend, all the drunkenness had left him and his euphoria had made room for a more sober disposition.Pierre Esprit,rench explorer and fur trader: b. Paris, France,1636; d. probably England, c. 1710. Arriving Canada in 1651, he settled at Three Rivers. A ar later he was captured by marauding Iroquois 10 adopted him. Returning with them to their ohawk Valley country in New Netherland, he uld have escaped when they stopped to tradeth the Dutch at Fort Orange (Albany) but ntinued on to their village. Later he returned Fort Orange, was given Boat passage to New nsterdam and sailed for France, landing at Lajchelle early in 1654. Returning to New Franceth his brother-in-law, Medard Chouart, Sieurs Groseilliers (q.v.), during the ensuing sixirs the two made numerous trading expeditions the West.
ROBERTS, Howard, American sculptor: b. Philadelphia, April 9, 1843; d. Paris, April 19, 1WO. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and in 1866 went to Paris where he studied under Dumont and Gumery at the ficole des Beaux-Arts. Returning to Philadelphia in 1871 he established his studio there. During a second sojourn in Paris (1873-1876) he produced La Premiere Pose which earned him "iie of the three medals awarded to American sculptors at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876. Other works of note are his statue "I Robert Fulton for the Rotunda of the National Capitol, Hypatia and Eleanor in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and Hester Prynne. |
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