Throughout the three days’ sale, the gorgeous rooms of M. Georges Petit were crowded, although many well-known and wealthy buyers were absent owing to the lateness of the season. Amongst the distinguished collectors and dealers, from all parts of Europe and America, were the Counts de Camondo, Gallimard, de Castellane, the Marquis de Charnacé, the Barons Oberkampff and de Saint-Joachim, and Messieurs Degas, Cheramy, de St. Léon, de la Brunière, de Léclanché, Clerq, Muhlbacher, Ligneau, André Sinet, Antonin Proust, Escudier, Natanson, de Laivargott, Bigot, Ferrier, Marcel, Cognet, Durey, Zacharian, Moreau-Latour, Mittmann, Durand-Ruel, Bernheim, Allard, Montagnac, Vollard, Boussod, Rosemberg, and Camemtron, Monet’s _La Prairie_ realised 6400 francs, _Les Meules_ 9000 francs, _Falaise à Varengeville_ 9500 francs, and _La Seine à Argenteuil_ was knocked down to M. d’Hauterive for 11,500 francs. Renoir’s works fetched between ten and twenty thousand francs. Manet’s _Portrait of Claude Monet in his Studio_, which was sold after Manet’s death for 150 francs, changed hands at 10,000 francs. At the Vever sale in 1897, Monet’s _Le Pont d’Argenteuil_ realised 21,500 francs. (_c_) SOME COLLECTORS OF IMPRESSIONIST PICTURES The following list contains the names of the chief private collectors of Impressionist pictures. Though incomplete it will be noted that almost every country is represented: ALEXANDRE, M. ARSÈNE ASTOR, JOHN JACOB BATHMONT, MADAME BÉARN, COMTESSE DE BERNHEIM, FILS, M. BLANQUET, BARON CAHEN, M. GUSTAVE CAMONDO, COMTE ISAAC DE CHAUVEAU, FRÉDÉRIC COCHIN, M. DENIS COQUELIN FRÈRES CUREL, M. DE DECUP, M. DUPEAUX, M. DUPUX, DR. DURAND-RUEL ET FILS DURET, M. THEODORE EPHRUSSI, M. CHAS. FEYDEAU, M. M. FORWARD, M. GACHET, DR. GONJON, M. S. HAVINIMANN, MADAME HAVEMEYER, M. HERSCH, M. HETE, M. DE HOHENTSCHEL JOUBERT, M. KAKOREFF LEHRMANN MADDOCKS, J. MARCHANT, W. S. MARKER MARSDEN, S. MESDAG MONNIER, M. MOROSOFF, IVAN MURER, M. PAQUIN, M. PAWSON, T. PELERIN, M. AUGUSTE PETIT, M. GEORGES PRIESTLEY, W. E. B. PRIPPER RONNELL, MAX ROTHSCHILD, BARONNE GUSTAVE DE ROTHSCHILD, BARON HENRI DE RUEL, M. ROUS, M. SAMUEL, M. SCHLESINGER, M. SCHMITZ, M. SCHULTE, HERR SCHUMANN, M. SMITH, J. W. SOTA, SIGNOR DE LA STRAUSS, GUIDO STRAUSS, JACQUES STRAUSS, JULES TESIGMANN, M. TSCHUDI, HERR VON VANDERBILT VAN DER VELDE, M. VANIER, M. VIAU, M. GEORGES VLIEYERE, M. DE WALDECK-ROUSSEAU, M. WILLS, SIR W. H. ZYGOMALCO, M. [Illustration] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BIBLIOGRAPHY ARSÈNE ALEXANDRE: