A Journal devoted to the Fine Arts.
NEW SERIES : April 5, 1890. Vol. V.—No. ι Price 30 cents. WITH TWO FULL-PAGE SUPPLEMENTS. —CONTENTS:— 1. AN IVORY CASKET PRESENTED TO CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS of "Rembrandt's Model." The Etching Club of BY FERDINAND AND ISABELLA. With a Full-page Sup- Brooklyn, Ν. Y. The Soldiers and Sailors Monument plement. FRONTISPIECE. at Newport, R. I. Request for the free entry of an oil- 2. THE ACADEMY OF DESIGN EXHIBITION. painting of foreign production denied. A movement 3. THE GABALDA COLLECTION. to endow Brooklyn, Ν. Y., with an Institute of Arts and 4. THE TERRA-COTTAS OF TANAGRA AND ASIA MINOR. ARE ·,-- Sciences. Opening, in Paris, of a gallery for the ex- THEY FORGERIES ? A LETTER FROM SALOMON REINACH. clusive display of the works of American Artists. The 5. "THE DESCENT OF THE GYPSIES." From the picture by Association of Canadian Etchers. Edward Kemeys, Diaz in the Secretan Collection. With a Full-page Jr., the American Sculptor. The Artists' Fund Society Supplement. of Brooklyn, Ν. Y. The Gump Collection of Paint- 6. THE RESTORATION OF THE PALAZZO DUCALE, VENICE. Il- ings. Authors' Club of New York. The World's Fair lustrated. Executive Committee of New York. Report of the 7. THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF PAINTER-ETCHERS OF LONDON Annual Meeting of the Art Association of San Fran- ANNUAL EXHIBITION. cisco, Cal, etc., etc. 8. ANCIENT EMPLOYMENT, OF ALABASTER IN ARCHITECTURAL 1.2. Foreign Notes. Exhibition of Whistler's Etchings. DECORATION IN ENGLAND. Prince Eugene of Sweden as an Amateur. The forth- 9. PORTRAIT-PAINTERS, AND WHAT THEY TEACH US. By coming exhibition of the new Societe Nationale des ; Ε. H. Hathway. Beaux-Arts. Portrait of Dr. Dollinger presented to 10. PRESENT AND FUTURE ART EXHIBITIONS. Art Club of Hon. W. E. Gladstone. Souvenirs of the Emperor Boston, Mass. Mr. F. A. Bridgman's Collection. Art Napoleon I. The burial of an East Indian Queen. Loan in Rockville, Conn. Pottery Club of Cincinnati, The Mausoleum of the Emperor Frederick. Lecture Ohio. National Academy of Design of New York. by James Orrock. An account of the portraits by D. Industrial Exposition at San Francisco, Cal. Mr. B. My tens. Closson's Engravings. Works by representative Ameri- *3· LITERARY NOTES. "Mission Scientifique au Caucase can Artists in New York. Drawings by Legros, etc. Etudes Archeologiques et Historiques," by J. de Mor- 11. AMERICAN NOTES. Reception of the Art Students' Associ- gan. "The Horsemen of Tarentum ; a Contribution ation of Boston, Mass. Mr. Fred. L. Ames'" Collection toward the Numismatic History of Great Greece," by of Paintings. Sale of the Ivory Jewel Casket. A Plate Arthur J. Evans. "Academy Notes." 11 THE STUDIO The Studio, TIFFANY * CO., PUBLISHED WEEKLY. UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. 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GOLD MEDAL. lished on the first Saturday of the month will contain And Five Silver and Five Bronze Medals for Collaborators. from three to five full-page supplements consisting of etchings, photo-gravures, photo-etchings, photo-engrav- ings, etc., etc. The literary contents will continue to be of the same high character as at present: art criticisms by the best hands, notices of home and foreign exhi- bitions, correspondence from England and France, with occasional letters from Germany and elsewhere; book- PRACTICAL WORKS T. A. WILMURT, reviews and notes on matters of art-interest, the world ON over. The numbers of THE STUDIO to be published on the succeeding Saturdays of the month will consist of eight ART, DRAWING, PAINTING, ETC. Picture Frames pages, but will be increased to twelve as occasion arises. This issue of THE STUDIO will not be illustrated. All the issues of THE STUDIO will be printed on the same Woodward's Artistic Drawing Studies. and Mirrors,, size page, with paper of the same quality, but in smaller (A drawing-book of Heads, Figures, Animals, and type, except the headings, which will be uniform in all landscapes, Superior Studies for the Lead Pencil the numbers. and Crayon, for Artists, Art Students, and Schools. 54 East Thirteenth St. The finest work of the kind ever published in this It is intended in this portion of THE STUDIO to cover country. Adapted to all ages and all conditions of a field that has thus far not been occupied by any art- progress. Eighty quarto plates. Price $6.00 Established 1848. NEW YORK. journal in this country, though something like the same purpose is served by the Chronique des Arts, the Courrier Artistic Designs in Gold, Bronze, Hard "Woods, etc. de I'A rt and the Kunst-Chronik, the weekly flyers of the Book of Japanese Ornamentation. Paintings Restored. Re-gilding and repairing done in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, L'Art, and the Zeitschrift fur iA collection of designs adapted to the use of De- the neatest manner. Special attention given to arrang- Bildende Kunst, respectively. But even these publica- corators, Designers, Sign Painters, Silversmiths ing Galleries and Dwellings. Careful packing for ship- tions do not cover the whole field to be occupied by the and others. Designs all practical, range from the ment by Rail or Water. Also, Oil Paintings, Etchings weekly issue of THE STUDIO, which is intended to be a and Engravings for sale. chronicle as complete as the publishers can make it, of simplest to the most elaborate, Price $2.00 til the minor art matters of the country, and of as much Μ is possible to get hold of, of what is going on abroad tn each week. This chronicle will consist of announce- Sketching from Natu e in Pencil and J. MARSCHING & CO. ments of art exhibitions, present and to come. 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THE LAST lOO COPIES. 1882, EIGHTH YEAR, BARYE. TH£ STUDIO ροη 1890. I890. HE STUDIO for December 7th contains a Brilliant THE ONLY WEEKLY T Essay on the Life and Works of Antoine-Louis Barye, illustrated with an original Etching by ART-JOURNAL PUBLISHED IN AMERICA. Otto H. Bacher, of a Venus and Juno, from the Bronze Candelabrum designed in 1846 for the Due de Mont- $5.00 PER YEiiR, WITH 36 TO 60 FULL-PAGE pensier ; two Photo-Etchings of Bas-Reliefs, by Barye, dated 1831 ; a portrait of Barye, by Bacher; and seven SUPPLEMENTS, consisting of Reproductions of the engravings of the most important of his bronzes Master-Work of Noted Painters, Sculptors, etc., in- Price, only 30 Cents a Copy. cluding Etchings, Engravings, Photo-Gravures, Photo- Orders should be addressed to Etchings, Photo-Engravings, etc., forming a magnifi- THE STUDIO PUBLISHING CO., cent collection of Pictures suitable for Framing, the 864 BROADWAY. NEW YORK. Portfolio, or as Studies. $3.00 per year for First or CLARENCE COOK, Editor. Main Edition only, with all the full-page supplements. JOSEPH J. KOCH, Manager. DOES IT PAY TO ADVERTISE IN
i OTTfll TO IN 1890 THE STUDIO will enter upon its eighth year of publication, and the fifth volume Jj£jQt of the New Series. The arrangement the editor has made with eminent writers on art matters enables him to promise greater variety in the literary contents of the journal, while THE JOURNALIST? at the same time preserving that independence and individuality that have made a great part of its success, and have won for it the support of the educated and cultured portion of the community. Art criticisms, sales, etc., This is what shrewd advertisers say about it: by the best critics, notices of home and foreign exhibitions, correspondence from England and France, with occasional letters from Germany and elsewhere; book reviews and notes on matters of art-interest, the world THE JOSEPH DIXON CRUCIBLE CO.. over. Nothing will be spared to make THE STUDIO in the future as it has tried to be in the past, an impartial JERSEY CITY, N. 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Our sample packages have run out and we are about seventy-five or being to do all that lies in its power to encourage and develop the talent of our own men and women not in any a hundred behind on orders, but will catch up again la blind spirit of know-nothingism, but because we think in this way best to interest the world at large. a few days. Yours truly, rTPUTWP C! Mr· SIDNEY L. SMITH, already known to the readers of THE STUDIO by his Etchings of si ver GEO. E. LONG, Adv. Manager. £l J IjUlIlUD. l Coffee-pot set with pearls," "A Portrait of John Quincy Adams at the age of POPE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, sixteen," has accepted commissions for four plates. I. and II., groups from Asia Minor, " The BOSTON, MASS., Sept. 21st, 18S9. Eape of Europa," "Hermes leading Sappho to Charon." These two groups are of the highest beauty and are not Mr. ALLAN FORMA X, exce.led by any thus far discovered. III., a group from the base of the bronze Candelabrum designed by Barye, Edi',or f The Journalist, New York, N.Y. " Athene and Aphrodite." Only three copies of the Candelabrum are known. IV., a group of Angels from the Dear Sir.—Th . pe s advertisement has been Mr. H. ltACHER In TUE JouRNALit r i r oy rs, .nd it will stay there, so fresco in the Riccardi Chapel, Florence, by Benozzo Gozzoli. OTTO has completed a plate long as THE JOURNALIST main .ins its position, and the of an inkstand of majolica of Italian manufacture. This remarkable work bears distinctly the date 1492, the Pope Mfg. Co has something Ό s 11. The bright news- date of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, and will no doubt be a conspicuous object in this paper men /f the country read ; there is f THE JOURNALIST coming four-hundredth anniversary of that event. Mr. Bacher has produced a brilliant and spirited etching. no economical way o get at them except tnrougli the His etching is the exact size of the original object, and wants only color to reproduce its full effect. Other plates columns of THE JOURNALIST. by Mr. Bacher will appear in the course of the year. Mr. WILLI ΑΛΙ >1. CHASE has promised to etch a Very truly ; rs, Adv. Department, plate from some one of his recent works. Mr. KOLTERT F. LILUM has accepted a commission to make an POPE MFG. CO., Boston, Mass., NATH'L C. FOWLER, Jr. etching from a picture in the Gallery of the Yale School of Fine Arts. This portrait, attributed to the school of Francia, represents a Princess of the Vilelli family, and is a striking and beautiful work. ALLEN & GINTER (INCORPORATED), Tobacco Manufacturers, innnn ΓΜΡΌ A VTWfO Mr· HENRY MARSH, it is hoped, will enrich the pages of THE RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, Sept. 21st, 1889. 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With the first number of the new volume, the fifth of and inlaid. GOLD MEDAL. the New Series, published on Saturday, December 7th, For Copper-plate Engraving and Printing. GOLD MEDAL. THE STUDIO began its weekly issue. The number pub- lished on the first Saturday of the month will contain And Five Silver and Five Bronze Medals for Collaborators. from three to five full-page supplements consisting of etchings, photo-gravures, photo-etchings, photo-engrav- ings, etc., etc. The literary contents will continue to be of the same high character as at present : art criticisms by the best hands, notices of home and foreign exhi- bitions, correspondence from England and France, with occasional letters from Germany and elsewhere; book- PRACTICAL WORKS reviews and notes on matters of art-interest, the world ON T. A. WILMURT, over. The numbers of THE STUDIO to be published on the succeeding Saturdays of the month will consist of eight ART, DRAWING, PAINTING, ETC. Picture Frames pages, but will be increased to twelve as occasion arises. This issue of THE STUDIO will not be illustrated. All the issues of THE STUDIO will be printed on the same Woodward's Artistic Drawing Studies. and Mirrors, size page, with paper of the same quality, but in smaller A drawing-book of Heads, Figures, Animals, and type, except the headings, \vhich will be uniform in all landscapes, Superior Studies for the Lead Pencil the numbers and Crayon, for Artists, Art Students, and Schools. 54 East Thirteenth St. .The finest work of the kind ever published in this It is intended in this portion of THE STUDIO to cover country. Adapted to all ages and all conditions of a field that has thus far not been occupied by any art- progress. Eighty quarto plates. Price $6.00 Established 1848. NEW YORK. journal in this country, though something like the same purpose is served by the Chronique des Arts, the Courrier Artistic Designs in Gold, Bronze, Hard Woods, etc. de I'A rl and tlie Kunst-Chronik, the weekly flyers of the Book of Japanese Ornamentation. Paintings Restored. Re-gilding and repairing done in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, L'Art, and the Zeitschrifl fur A ollection of designs adapted to the use of De- the neatest manner. Special attention given to arrang- Bildende Kunst, respectively. But even these publica- corators, Designers, Sign Painters, Silversmiths ing Galleries and Dwellings. Careful packing for ship- tions do not cover the whole field to be occupied by the and others. Designs all practical, range from the ment by Rail or Water. Also, Oil Paintings, Etchings weekly issue of THE STUDIO, which is intended to be a simplest to the most elaborate. Price $2.00 and Engravings for sale. chronicle as complete as the publishers can make it, of »11 the minor art matters of the country, and of as much as is possible to get hold of, of what is going on abroad in each week. This chronicle will consist of announce- Sketching from Nature in Pencil and J. MARSCHING & CO. ments of art exhibitions, present and to come. Reports Water Colors.—Excellent work for young art of sales, items of news, short book notices ; whatever, students; full of practical information, clearly pre- in short is of current interest and importance in the sented. Illustrated. Price socts. Artists' Materials, •world of art. This venture must, we are certain, commend itself to 27 Park Place, New York. the art-public, to connoisseurs, amateurs, and to artists, Use of Colors. Valuable treatise on the properties of different instructors in art, to art clubs, schools and art institu- ^^•Send for New Illustrated Catalogue. pigments and their suitableness to uses of artists tions. and students. Price 25 cts. Mention THE STUDIO
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THE STUDIO. ures by modern artists, while another valuable col- lection loaned by citizens of Chicago fill an additional CLARENCE COOK, EDITOR. gallery. We cannot too highly commend the spirit that has led the managers of the Institute to give so JOSEPH J. KOCH, MANAGER. large a space to the works of American painters : Mr. McEwen, Mr. Mosler and Mrs. Merritt: this is Offices : No. 864 Broadway, New York City virtually a new departure, and we trust that the public welcome will be so cordial as to encourage the management in repeating the experiment. It is really high time that something were done by our Art EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS AT THE OPEN- Institutions to encourage American artists, who are ING OF THE NEW GALLERIES OF THE more valued every where than at home. It is no CHICAGO ART INSTITUTE. credit to us as a people to see our artists welcomed in London, Paris, Munich—abundantly supplied with HE opening of the New Galleries of the Art-In- commissions, loaded with honors, and everywhere T stitute of hicago, 111., on the evening of Feb- received on equal terms with the chief of the artistic ruary 24th proved to be an unusually brilliant affair. world, and then to see men of equal talent, who pre- The selection of pictures showed tact and taste on the fer to stay at home and work, neglected and slighted part of the management, and the excellent arrange- for second-rate or third-rate artists who come from ment and hanging kept the interest of the vast body France and even from England. An exhibition like of spectators well alive through the entire evening, this at Chicago is a cheerful sign that the subject is and made so pleasant an impression that the results attracting attention in quarters of importance. must be felt in the success of the season so auspi- ciously opened. The principal room contained a THE TERRA-COTTAS OF TANAGRA AND collection of pictures from various sources. Among ASIA-MINOR. ARE THEY FORGERIES? the chief of these in interest are the Sir Joshua Rey- A LETTER FROM GASTON L. FEUAR- nolds : "Judge Dunning (afterward Lord Ashburton) DENT. and his Sister, Miss Dunning," lent by Lady Crons- toun ; Velasquez, " Philip IV. of Spain," from the To the Editor of THE STUDIO : Secretan Collection; Jacob Ruysdael, "Norwegian Y DEAR SIR : The Nation in its issue of the 20th Landscape;" Holman Hunt, "The Triumph of the M of February, contains a letter from Mr. W. J. Innocents," lent by the artist; and a number of Stillman in which he says, speaking of terra-cotta American pictures: "The Close of Day," by Chas. groups recently published in the Cenlury Magazine. H. Davis, " Head of a YongGirl " by Clias. Sprague ". . . As far as one can judge from the character Pearce and "A Holland Flower-Girl" by George of the design and without seeing the object itself, I am Hitchcock, the gift of Mr. Potter Palmer, and a disposed to pronounce all the groups given as illus- "Scene in Venice" by Robert Frederick Blum. trations in the Century article to be forgeries." And, Mrs. Anna Lea Merritt exhibits no less than fifteen nevertheless, in Order that there shall not be any am- portraits : among them those of Dr. Oliver Wendell biguity in his statement, he adds in another part of Holmes, Mr. J. Russell Lowell, and Mrs. Holman his letter, " It cannot be too widely known that all Hunt, with portraits of Mrs. Stirling and Miss ί lien these groups of several figures purporting to be an- Terry as "The Nurse and Juliet," and Miss Marion tique figurines from Asia-Minor or Greece are pro- Lea, misprinted "Low" in the catalogue. In the nounced by the most authoritative experts to be for- next gallery were some sixty pictures by Walter Mc- geries." Furthermore, Mr. Stillman frankly adds, Ewen—the most important one a subject taken from "and I for one, having seen several of them, and Washington Irving's "Knickerbocker's His'tory of knowing something of the tricks of the trade in an- Nev; York : " the rest a collection of studies, sketches tiquities, have no hesitation in endorsing this judg- * and finished pictures, many of them loaned by ment. " citizens of Chicago. Another collection of American Although I ask a small place in THE STUDIO in order pictures was the work of Mr. Henry Mosler, nearly to strive against Mr. Stillman's statements, I must ex- fifty of whose pictures are hung together. Mr. Albert press how pleasantly I feel in entering on a discussion A. Munger of Chicago has loaned twenty-seven pict- with one whose knowledge is vast, whose sincerity THE STUDIO 153
cannot be doubted, and one who still possesses that few groups Mr. Stillman saw, were forgeries or not. 'youthful rashness which makes him have "no hesi- Most certainly there are many forgeries. Every ob- tation " in being "disposed to pronounce them to be ject that commands a market is very soon "forged," forgeries"—objects that he has not seen, and of which from an obelisk to a dollar-bill. But it does not character he has seen only '1 several" others. follow for this reason that all obelisks and all dollar- Mr. Stillman is not, by any means, a pioneer in bills are forgeries. Just the reverse. As a rule, only the crusade against these little marvels of ai cient art authentic objects that are in demand are imitated. before him, many other hommes-de-pliime have had Forgeries of groups 1 have handled many, some very "no hesitation" in condemning them as forgeries. skillfully constructed, down to such poor productions Even in that land so remote from classical ground that they could not deceive even the famous Archae- called New York there have been many attacks against illogical Committee of Investigation that sat in New these groups. The readers of the Nation have been York some years ago. But whether these imitations treated to frequent confidences on the same subject be skillful or not, they never approach the genuine from the "judgment" of Mr. Salomon Reinach. monuments. And one of the best modes of defense Mr. Salomon Reinach made some excavations—very for them is that resorted to by the defender of Mrs. roughly conducted—near Myrhina, in which he found Phryne ! Show the groups to people of taste, and a large mass of fragmentary objects, and among them they will bear their own defense. several groups. At first sight, one would think that The attacks on these groups are easily understood, these personal findings would have led Mr. Reinach they are a repetition of what happens every time to believe that antique groups of terra-cotta may be something novel and original is placed before the found? Well, it had just the reverse effect, and after eyes of the public. It has happened when the Tan- declaring his finds as authentic, Mr. Reinach de- agra figurines were first found. It happens at every nounced all others as imitations! While passing period when an artist throws his originality at the through Paris some time ago, I called on Mr. Rein- public, and, until the said public is educated to the ach, in order to hear from his own lips the reasons high standard of the artist's genius, the poor fellow that led his judgment on this subject, I found him starves and is scoffed at by many tongues and pens, either unwilling or unable to give any serious facts. and Delacroix is called "a madman," Victor Hugo, However, he volunteered the statement that qneof his " a dreamer," Millet, "a peasant." even Shakespeare's principal reasons for doubting the authenticity of the memory had some trouble to shake off the epithet of groups—his own excepted, of course—was that there "barbarian." The same thing happens with the groups. were to be found in these objects differences of styles We knew of Greek art, with few exceptions what which could only belong to objects of different times, may be called the official side : the art to be found and that especially in the draperies covering the fig- in civic monuments and temples. Then come the ures, where folds of the most realistic school were to Tanagra figurines and the terra-cotta groups showing be found, while the border of the same draperies be- an intimate, familiar, playful style of art, and at once longed to a pure archaic design I tried to convince strong-headed men, who use the eyes more to look Mr. Reinach that even as late as the Roman period, through books than to study the objects before them, the borders of garments are often ornamented in a declare, the novel arrivals to be impossibilities. conventional archaistic style, but he was not disposed Let us suppose that one thousand years have passed to be convinced so easily. In leaving Mr. Reinach's away, we are in the year A. D., 3000, and that only I went straight to the exhibition of the objects pro- the art that is to be found in our capitols, city-halls ceeding from his own excavations at Myrhina, and and churches, is the one known' to the Americans of there, in Mr. Reinach's own findings I took down the year 3000, when, tout a coup, a discovery is made the numbers of several figures bearing in the folds of of some '' tableaux de genre' by our present artists, their draperies the variety of styles that made him so would not that discovery throw a "side light" on determined in his condemnation of the groups. Back the art af 1890? and the Natmis weekly of the year again I called at Mr. Reinach's, and asked him to go 3000 would have hardly space enough to print the and study the numbers I gave him of his own objects, denunciations of so-called experts. when he answered me coolly: "I may be mistaken about that point" (the only one he gave me) "but I However, the style of art of our friends, the groups, am so much anchored in the opinion that the groups is not entirely novel to all. Many antique frescoes are forgeries that it is of no use to try make me change recall exactly the same mannerism, and even officiality my ideas on the subject." So, of course, I left Mr. had, some time dropped her severe mask and asked Reinach at his anchorage. the "genre" to help her. A look over the charming series of the official coins struck in the fourth Century It is curious that Mr. Stillman comes at so late a B.C., by the little city of Bruttium, called Terina, period only to rehearse what Mr. Reinach had said, will reveal to our eyes quite a joyful family of heads of for he ought to know that these accusations against pretty syrens, and the reverses of the coins, a gracious the groups have been victoriously exploded in 1887, army of plump damsels under the figures of "Vic- by Mr. A. Cartault in a pamphlet entitled: " Sur tories " who, forgetting the "fleaux" of past wars, Τ authenticite des groupes en terre-cnite d'Asie-mineure." are seen playing with birds, enjoying ripe fruits, and In that work Mr. Stillman will find an answer to one juggling with apples, &c., and that in such nonchal- and all of the points—rather diffused—he gives in his ant postures, and modelled with such grand art that letter. they appear to have been conceived by a Fragonard, Of course I do not dispute the fact, whether the drawn by a Jean Goujon, and engraved by an Aspasius. THE STUDIO 153
Another cause of suspicion against these groups may be permitted to supplement Mr. Stillman's an- is the secrecy that surrounds the exact spots where ecdote by one Ejusdem farince ; I know it to be exactly the groups are found. Neither the discoverers nor true, and it is related at length in Mr. Cartault's the dealers, who dispose of antiques, do, it is true, work. In 1886, two groups, (representing respectively feel incline to divulge the secret, and, that for good "\enus lying on a couch attended by two cupids," reasons. One of these is, that, as soon as the indis- and "a Victory driving a bull, and guided by a cretion is made, persons start at once and begin ex- cupid," were seized at Piraeus as antiques. The ship- cavations in the name of science, and for the benefit per's indentity was unknown, of course, but, on the of some government. It was such an indiscretion box were written the names of the destinataires (a that led Mr. Reinach to go and dig at Myrhina for firm who sell antiquities in Paris). After the seizure the Louvre, and, of course, frustrated any hope for the groups were sent to the Ministry of Public In- native discoverers. struction and the expert, Mr. Cavvadias—I wonder Another reason for the secrecy is that these groups whether this is the "most famous expert of Athens" proceed from localities under the rule of Greece or Mr. Stillman mentions in his letter ? declared that Turkey, and that, not only are permits for excava- these two groups were modern forgeries. On the re- tions difficult to procure from these governments, but ceipt of this news, the Paris firm claimed the surrender the exportation of the antiquities found is strictly of these objects to them on the ground that they had prohibited by the laws of these countries ; therefore, been declared to be modern works. But, since that all the findings as well as the exporting, is done claim, to be brief, the same groups have become gen- clandestinely, and the impetus for novel discoveries uine, and declared to be so by many, including mem- greatly slackens. So the mystery surrounding the bers of the Athenian " Parnassos " Society, who ex- localities is quite natural, as, for instance, in Great hibited other groups of the same class, and the Britain, where the law commands that all findings of authenticity of which they proclaimed. And until objects in precious metals belong by right to the to-day these two groups are kept by the Greek govern- crown. Most of the finds are on that account melted ment as genuine antiques ! down and sold afterwards as gold or silver. That an- But leaving aside all question of art or archaeo- tiquated 1 aw is the cause of the destruction of many logy in relation to the authenticity of these groups, monuments dear to archaeology. As the case happened and by using only human common-sense, one will some few years ago when a considerable lot of gold easily be convinced how impossible it is for any one coins, struck by the English sovereigns of the Four- to fabricate that relatively immense variety shown in teenth and Fifteenth Century, were given to the these little monuments. Of course I do not treat melting-pot in order to evade the law. Only about now on the vile imitations that could not deceive any- half-dozen of them were saved, and they proved by body. To manufacture these fine groups one must their beauty and great rarity that science had suffered have : first, the whole establishment of a first-class a great loss in the destruction of that extraordinary potter ; he must be an excellent archaeologist in or- find. der to produce correct objects, and not impossible In relation to the difficulty of exporting antiques amalgamations, a-la-Cyprus; he must have all from Greece I find the following anecdote in Mr. varieties of clay to make the groups according to Stillman's letter (of course we know that Mr. Still- the mode used by the ancients, which differ, accord- man calls all these groups forgeries): " It is, indeed," ing to the localities where they were produced ; he he writes, "perfectly well known where the forgeries has to possess a perfect knowledge of all the varie- come from, I saw one large group which was seized ties of the ancient modes of fabrication ; he must be in the custom-house at Peiraeus, it had been imported the owner of an extremely valuable collection of real from Smyrna, and had been broken into twenty antique, as models for his numerous and varied imi- pieces to carry out the deception better. Although, tations, and last, but not least, as these groups as only in transit, it could not have been seized by come out of the mould in the most imperfect and the Greek law if it had been reclaimed by the owner, roughest state, and have to be entirely re-worked by it never was reclaimed, because the shipper wished hand (that is the reason that not two of them are to conceal his identity." What does Mr. Stillman de- alike), then the forger must be supplemented by be- sire to prove against the groups by writing the above? ing an artist of the highest merit, one who is so I am at loss to discover. He shows that the Greek master of his art that he can with the easiest grace government was doubly in the wrong ; first, for seiz- identify himself with the qualities, peculiarities, ing an object that was only in transit, and secondly, fancies, &c., of men who lived thousands of years be- for appropriating to itself an object under the pre- fore his birth, and were as different in their style of tence that it was an antique, when Mr. Stillman de- work as they were remote one from the other, liv- clares the same object to be of modern manufacture. ing in different countries and at different periods. Which was right, the government, or Mr. Stillman? Then that forger who, by the sale of his collections, As to "the shipper concealing his identity" it does not can be made rich in no time ; that forger whose talent follow that the said shipper agreed with Mr. Stillman would command him the highest place in honors, for- about the age of his group ; it is more probable that tune and consideration ; who can aspire to the highest he desired continuing exporting antiquities during his rank that genius can bestow ; that forger is supposed to life-time, a business which would have been denied live like a wolf in a cave, making his living by obtaining to him in future, had the man given his name and money by false pretences, obliged to sell his goods, address to the Greek and Turkish authorities. But I and at the same time in constant fear to be discovered, 152 ΓΗ Ε STUDIO and put in prison ! ! ! I think it would be still more of construction, joined to the most correct and pa- easy to fabricate the groups than to be able i ο dis- tient execution. cover a man who, having such chances as this forger The precise spot where these Terra-Cottas were would have, would willingly choose the shady life in- found is unknown, for Turkish law forbids research stead of that of such a brillant sunshine. As the and the exportation of antiquities. But it is certain purchase of these antiquities by collectors is like any that they come from the neighborhood of Myrhina. other purchase, a matter of dollars and cents—gene- The doubts they have provoked, have 110 serious rally dollars—let me say with Mr. Stillman : "The ground. Besides, adversaries are rare, and the form trade in these terra-cotta stuatuettes is now so ex- adopted by the critics is so contrary to the dignity of tensive, and so bold in its fictions that no one should scientific questions that it is not easy to reply in a buy one except on the authority of a first-rate ex- scientific manner." pert." As the groups illustrated in the Century were imported by my friend H. De Morgan as proceeding from Rollin & Feuardent's collection—a fact men- MONET'S " OLYMPIA." tioned in the said Magazine—I am pleased to see that the purchasers of the groups have followed Mr. E have already stated that a committee had been Stillman's advice as to the standard of their experts. W formed on the instance of M. Claude Monet, After that necessarylittle puff, I remain, as ever, to collect by subscription, a sum sufficient to acquire Faithfully yours, Monet's " Olympia," with a view to offering it to the Gaston L. Feuardent. Luxembourg Museum. We believe the list has just NEW YORK, March 4, 1890. been closed and the sum of 20,000 francs has been subscribed to purchase the picture from Monet's family. It only remains to be seen if the committee We append to Mr. Feuardent's valuable letter an of the Museum of the Luxembourg will accept this extract from the introduction written by Dr. W. canvas, which has been the subject of so much ener- Frohner to the calatogue of the objects of Greek getic criticism. Ceramic Art exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts In speaking of the picture, several of our contem- Club in London, in 1888, Dr. Frohner's. poraries have stated that the "Olympia" would be "But the most important pieces in this part of the offered to the Louvre, although the Louvre cannot exhibition are two groups from Hermione. The accept the works of deceased artists until ten years fruit market "208," and two women seated upon a after their death, and Monet only passed away in sarcophagus " 166," one relating an anecdote or 1883. some village scandal, and the other listening with at- The "Olympia," figured among the paintings in tentive curiosity. In the days of old, the tombs were the Monet auction, at the Hotel Drouot, on the 4th placed in a row along the high roads, and the passers- and 5th February, 1884, the picture being the first by sat upon them, as people sit on the benches in the number of the catalogue It was knocked down to parks. The artist has caught the two gossips to a M. Leenhof, Monet's brother-in-law, for 10,000 nicety ; ages before the painters of the Dutch school. francs. He created this most amusing of genre pictures. The "Olympia" was exhibited in the Salon of We now come to Asia Minor, that to the Terra- 1865; it represented a nude woman, of an Oriental Cottas, which have chanced in the most singular type, extended upon a couch. Behind her a negress manner considerably to increase the inheritance of stood as if waiting for her mistress to awake, while science, and to puzzle savants. We will not raise at the foot of the bed a black cat, roused from any irritating question. Our visitors shall go straight slumber, arched its back. to the case inclosing the large groups. They will there Beaudelaire said to Monet: "Exhibit this picture, see a wonder; Dionysos leading a bull "214." Then, it is equal to Titian's Venus." In the Salon, the beside it a Nereid seated on a hippocamp "220." painting was the cause of numberless incidents. A The rape of Europa "218," the pretty group ofFros few polite people spat upon it, a few, more cultivated, pursued by a swan " 230," Eros seated on a dolphin confined themselves to threatening it with their " 240." They will see the group of two young girls umbrellas. "219," one of whom having lost the game, is carry- The critics, not to be outdone in courtesy, merely ing the other, who has won it, on her shoulders. spoke daggers, disdaining to use such vulgar weapons. These splendid specimens have nothing in common "Before this sensational "Olympia," the public with the art of Greece itself. They have neither the gather as they do at the Morgue."—Paul de Saint tranquillity nor the calculated coldness of classic art, Victor. they are full of life and warmth. The feeling for " Through all the adopted method, there are bits plastic art which the Greeks possessed in such an discernible which need only to be better, to be good." eminent degree, has given place to a sense of the pic- " The shadows are indicated by streaks of blacking turesque, simplicity has given place to passion. In Asia more or less abundant. The cat leaves the impress the sculptors belong to the romantic school, they of his dirty paws upon the bed. There is nothing in take their figures from the life, walking and gesticulat- this picture but a desire to attract attention at an ν ing, the draperies caught by the wind are crumpled price "—Th. Gautier. into a thousand different folds. And yet withal "It is the Venus of the Cabaret."—Jules Claretie. —what strength of manipulation ! What cleverness "All men would become monks, if all the women THE STUDIO 153 resembled Olympia."—Legouv6. twenty persons, each of whom should give a thousand "In the most unfortunate works of M. Monet, francs, and that with this sum the picture should be there is something that we miss in the productions of bought and presented to the State. Upon reflection, more than one Academician."—Ed. About. however, this plan seemed to M. Monet hardly just Emile Zola was one of the defenders of the paint- to those of Monet's friends who might wish to be ing. He wrote in 1865 : associated with the movement, but to whom it might "This canvas is literally the flesh and the blood of not be convenient to subscribe so large an amount. the painter. Destiny has marked for it a place in the Beside this, there were several persons, not included Louvre." in the original list, who had heard of the plan, and Later on, Emile Zola wrote who offered their subscriptions, voluntarily. It was "The masters are in truth to be judged as much in this way that the list of eighty-two names came to by their influence as by their works, and it is about be made-up, which is published in Le Temps, and that influence that 1 am absolute. The history of our which was added to· the letter of M. Monet and sent school of painting for the last twenty years would by him and M. Camille Pelletan to the Minister of need to be written, to show the all-powerful part the Fine Arts. Among the more distinguished names, which Monet has played. He has been one of the as found in the list of contributors are the following : most energetic promoters of luminous painting studied Messrs. Bracquemond, Philippe Burty, Albert Bes- from nature, executed in broad daylight, which by nard, Jean Bemud, Bing, Boldini,Cazin, Degas, Desbou- degrees has drawn our Salons from their black- bitu- tins, i alou, Carolusi. uran, 1 uez, Durand-Ruel,Theo- minous cookery, and brightened them by the rays of dore Duret, Fantin-Latour, Auguste Flameng, Gervex, the real sun. It is this exquisite Olympia which in Guillemet, (iustave Geftroy, Harrison, Helleu, Lher- the Salon of 1865, succeeded in exasperating Paris mitte, ! erolle, Claude Monet, Puvis de Chavannes, against the artist."— Antonin Proust Camille Pelletan, Camille Pissaro, Finally, here is the opinion of another defender of Rodin, Th. Ribot, Renoir, J. F. Raffaelli, Arv Re- Monet : nan, Roll, Felicien Rops, J. Sargent. " In order that an artist may be definitely accepted as a painter, by the connoisseurs, it is necessary that his canvases when placed among those of his great AMERICAN NOTrS. predecessors, should be able to bear the comparison. In short, they must hold their own, seen, side-by-side HE Union League Club of New York, exhibited with the acknowledged masters. Now, Monet's T on Thursday afternoon, Mar.ch 13th, a collec- paintings hold their own by the side of paintings it tion of Oil-Paintings, Miniatures, Boxes and Fans. matters not by whom. No other painting has firmer touch, no other painting is more luminous, Collection of Chinese and Japanese works,ofart more transparent, possesses more serial beauty, greater Λ has been presented to the University of Syracuse, depths in shadows, is more charged with life in the New York, by Mrs. E. Adams Hill, of that city. eyes, and in every feature. Place a Monet among the works of Delacroix, of Corot, of Courbet, and you will R. T. A. BLANKENSHIP, the sculptor has re- acknowledge that it has a right to remain there, as M cently returned from Paris, and has received a among its friends and equals. In all the museums, commission to model a bust of Mr. Chauncey De- where we wish to possess specimens of the French pew. masters, and representatives of the modern school in its fullest development, Monet must have a place, for R. F. D. Millet sent out cards of invitation to his he, of all others, is original and full of personality, M friends to visit his Studio on Thursday, the 13th and he has given, with a distinctive force, which -lias inst., to examine his pictures intended for the Spring never been surpassed, a special note to painting, that exhibition. of clear tone, open air, and of the light of day."— Th. Duret. ANIEL C. FRENCH'S statue of Thomas Starr D King, will be placed in the Golden Gate Park, The object proposed in purchasing the Olympia of San Francisco, Cal. The statue is of heroic size, Monet was not to assist the widow of the artist. The ten and a half feet in height. arrangements for the sale of the painting were almost concluded when M. Claude Monet and his friends HE STUDIO will publish in an early number a intervened, and prevented the closing of the bargain. T beautiful etching made by Mr. Otto H. Bacher The facts, as given in Le Temps, are, that one day, of the terra-cotta group, "The Parting" recently Mr. John Sargent in a conversation with Claude Monet, bought from the Messrs. Cottier & Co., by Mr. George informed him that he had almost persuaded an Amer- Vanderbilt. ican friend to buy the Olympia, at the same time expressing his regret that a picture so important to the ISS MARIA BROOKS has returned from Bos- history of the Art of France in the nineteenth century M ton, Mass., where the exhibition of her pic- should be allowed by Frenchmen to leave the country. ture was very succeseful, and announces that her Moved by this remonstrance it then occurred to the studio in the Sherwood Building, No. 58 West 57th friends of Monet to prevent the picture leaving the Street, New York, is open to visitors on Thursdays, country. They at first proposed to form a club of in the afternoon and evening. 154 THE STUDIO
HE Museum of Fine Arts, of Boston, Mass., will 26th, after which latter date no work will be received. T be re-opened on Tuesday, March 18th, when Not more than three pictures in any one department the new building with its collections will be shown will be accepted from the same artist. Contributions for the first time to the public. from artists in New York City will be collected, ship- ped, and returned, free of expense to the contributors R. William Schaus, requests us to mention that by the Club Agent, T. A. Wilmurt & Son, 55 East M his private collection of paintings is open to all Thirteenth Street, New York. persons interested in art who will apply for cards of admission at his house, No. 30 East 38th Street, New HE artists of the Holbein Studios in West 55th York. T street, united with those who have studios at Nos. 103, 106, 139, 145, 146, 152 and 154 in the HE Salmagundi Club at a meeting held on Friday same street, in inviting their friends to visit their T evening, March 7th, at their rooms No. 123 rooms on the afternoons of Monday and Tuesday, Fifth Avenue, New York, elected the following of- March 10th and 1 ith between the hours of one o'clock ficers to serve for the ensuing year: President, C. Y. and five, to examine their latest work. The artists Turner; Vice-President, Thomas Moran; Recording who opened their rooms were Messrs. George Tnness, Secretary, Robt. C. Minor; Treasurer, A. C. Morgan ; F. S. Lamb, Leonard Ochtman, Charles Warren Corresponding Secretary, R. F. Bloodgood. Eaton, ]. Forssell, De Cost Smith, J. Scott Hartley, Elliott Daingerfield, F. E. Bartlett. F. Rondel, Man- RS. Elizabeth Thompson Butler, the painter of fred T. Eravtschold, B. Irwin, William Morgan, C. E. M "The Roll Call," " Rourke Drift," and other Cookman, A. F. Bunner, Carle J. Blenner, Charles military pictures, has been visitino: Ireland, and in- Foster, B. R. Fitz, George Bogart, Frederick Sutton, tends making "an Eviction" the subject of a picture. J. William Fosdick, Marie Guise, Harry R. Mills, S. We hope this lady, whose success must be the wonder M. Eilshemius, Irving R. Wiles, W. H. Shelton and and the despair of many a well-equipped, hard-work- William J. Whittemore. The studios of several of ing and unprosperous artist, may be more successful these artists were opened in the evenings, also. in representing an eviction, than she has hitherto been in representing men and horses; for otherwise nobody HE pictures belonging to Mr. Walter Bowne of will be able to find out from her picture what an evic- T Flushing, were sold on Wednesday, the 5th tion looks like. inst., and brought good prices. Fifty-eight pictures were sold for $46,705. Meissoniers's "On the Look- HE Second Part of the Private Collection of out," a small picture 8x5^ inches, and representing T Modern Etchings belonging to Francis Sey- a guardsman of mediaeval times standing by a door- mour Hoden is now 011 exhibition in Mew York at way, brought $3, 500. Among the other pictures sold the gallery, No. 868 Broadway. This part of the were Rousseau, "The Walled Farm," $1,000; collection consists entirely of the work of Whistler ; Troyon, "The Farm," $560; Fortuny, "A Belle his etchings, and dry prints, with a considerable of the Campagna," $560 ; Marie Rosa Bonheur, number of pencil-drawings and sketches, with a few "Monarch of the Herd," $1,950 ; Diaz, " The For- water-colors. The exhibition is one of remarkable est Pool," $1, 250 ; Rousseau, "The Farm, Sunset," interest, many of the plates are in state, finer than $1,375; Jules Dupre, "Banks of the Seine," $500 ; have been seen here before, and the whole is so well Van Marcke, "At the Pool," $1,250; Troyon, hung that it can be thoroughly enjoyed. "Strayed from the Herd," $1,950; Carleton Wig- gins, "Among the Rushes," $800; Jacque, "The HE Rochester, Ν. Y. Art Club sends out a cir- Two Shepherds," $540 ; Decamps, "The Tempest," T cular relative to its Eleventh Annual Exhibi- $1,500; Rousseau, "The Goatherd," $575; Jean tion. They will be opened at the Chamber of Frangois Millet, "The Seamstress," (for which Mr. Commerce Rooms, in Rochester, Ν. Υ., on Monday Bowe paid $3,000), $2,100; Francois Millet, a son evening, May 26, 1890, and will close on Wednesday of the great artist, "The Hay Stack," $320; Al- evening, June 4th. Original works in oil, water-color, phonse de Neuville, "The Vanguard," $3,000; etching and black-and-white will be received, subject Diaz, " Early Autnmn, Forest of Fontainebleau," to approval at the Chamber of Commerce Rooms on $2,450; }. C. Cazin, "The Hour of Rest and Saturday, May 17th, after which date, no picture or Peace," $1,050; J. B. C. Corot, "The Road to the work will be admitted. Communications should be Sea," $2,300; Daubigny, "The Time of Apple addressed to Ada II. Kent, the secretary at No. 57 Blossoms," $3,200 ; Auguste Hagborg, " The Mus- South Washington Street, Rochester, Mew York. sel Gatherer," $1, 500 ; George Michel, " Montmartre," $1,050; Meindert, Hobbema, "A Dutch Land- HE Forty-second Exhibition of the Boston Fine scape," $1,350. T Art Club will open on Friday evening, April 4th, and will close on the evening of Saturday, April 26th. Only original works which have never been FOREIGN NOTES. publicly exhibited in the city of Boston, Mass., will be accepted. These must be sent in, addressed to the T the Burlington Gallery in London, may be seen Club House, corner Dartmouth and Newbury Streets, A a collection of pictures mainly by the President from Thursday, March 20th, to Wednesday, March and members of the Cercle Artistique of Antwerp. 1 HE STUDIO T55
QIR FREDERICK LEIGHTON, P. R. Α., will by drummers. The shortest man in Dunquerque is Ο not be represented by any large work in the always chosen as drummer in chief. A similar cere- Royal Academy of London this spring, owing to the mony takes place at Douai, where, however, the fact that the building of his new glass studio has not mock giant is called the "Gayaut." been completed. The President will, it is hoped exhibit some portraits. RS. Langtry's production of As You Like It is M said by the Athenceum to be very successful. PIE historic "Chapel on the Bridge," erected at " During her long absence," says the article, " Mrs. Τ Wakefield to commemorate the battle between Langtry has improved to a remarkable extent. Tak- York and Lancaster during the wars of the Roses, ing her departure as a novice of promise, she returns has been formally reopened after restoration by the an actress. The Audrey of Miss Marion Lea was a Bishop of Wakefield. The bridge itself is a fine speci- complete revelation. So much comedy, and pretti- men of masonry of the time of Edward III. ness of an appropriate bucolic kind have not in our memory been assigned the character." Miss Marion HE Empress Dowager of China having expressed Lea, it will be remembered, is an American lady, the T a desire to have the photographs of distinguished sister of the artist, Mrs. Anna Lea Merritt. Mrs. foreigners who have served China, Li Hung-Chang Merritt's charming portrait of her sister is among the caused reproductions, enlarged to about five feet, of pictures sent by her to the Chicago Art-Institute Ex- two photographs of General Gordon to be made, one hibition. representing the hero of Khartoum in his Engineer's uniform, and the other in Chinese dress. HE recent death in Paris, of the artist Protais, T who was warmly attached to the Imperial Family, HE Waadtland Society, formed for the restoration has called forth the following message from the T of the Castle of Chillon, on the Lake of Geneva, Empress Eugenie to the brother of the deceased pain- made famous by Byron, now considers that there are ter :— "I am deeply grieved at the death of your sufficient funds in hand to begin the work. The brother. France loses in him a distinguished artist, society is, however, in search of an architect intimately and I a faithful friend." Under the Empire, Protais acquainted with the architecture of the Middle Ages, was frequently a guest at Compiegne. He was com- whose plans will be submitted to a jury of experts. missioned by the Empress Eugenie to produce two pictures—one representing the death of the Prince OW that the British Museum has been opened to Imperial, and the other the departure of the ill-fated N the public in the evenings, there is a strong young Prince's body for England. The eminent desire expressed for a complete catalogue of the col- artist was visited, just a few days before his death, by lection, and it is hoped that, if such a thing ever is Princess Mathilde Bonaparte. brought about, it will be something more than a mere list of names. At present the only resource is a HE Buddhists do not consider the expense in guide to "personally conduct" visitors round the T beautifying their temples. Here is a descrip- galleries, and guides who possess a fund of the re- tion of the new vane of the pagoda at Rangoon :— quisite information are not always to be found, even The vane is about three by one-and-a-half feet broad, in that modern intelligence office, the Lady-Guide and thickly crusted with precious stones, and lovely Association. fans of red Burmese gold. One ruby alone is worth 6,000 rupees, and there are several hundred rubies HE new society of artists which has just been alone on this beautiful thing. On the tip of the iron T formed in Paris, with M. Meissonier as presi- rod on which works the vane is a richly-carved and dent, and which bears the title of the " Societe Na- perforated gold ornament called the Sernboo. It is tionale des Beaux Arts," has decided to admit all somewhat egg-shaped and a foot in height, tipped by French and foreign artists to membership. The an enormous diamond encircled by many smaller statutes of the new body, which has been constituted ones, crusted on like barnacles. All over this ex- as a rival to the old Society of French Artists, owing quisite oval object are similar clumps of diamonds. to the recent quarrel respecting the Exhibition awards, were read and approved at a recent meeting. HE authorities of the British Museum says the The exhibition of the new society will be opened on T London correspondent of the Manchester Carrier, May 15 next, at suitable galleries, which have already have received information that a find of unusual in- been selected. terest have recently been made on the site of some recent excavations in Egypt. A tomb has been un- FEW towns in the north of France keep up some earthed, which is believed by eminent archaeologists A of the old mediaeval Carnival customs. At to be that of Cleopatra. It was found at the depth Dunquerque, for instance, the young fishermen of the of 25 ft. from the surface in a chamber 10 ft. long, town, to the number of some 700 or 800, execute a 2^2 ft. wide, and lofty in proportion. The sar- wild dance through the streets, to the sound of abso- cophagus was built in the form of a pyramid, and lutely demoniacal music. Then appears the "Reuse," covered with exquisite carvings, among them being a fabulous giant, represented by an enormous figure five female figures, five crowns of laurel, and four fi- of wicker-work, with helmet and cuirass, which pa- gures of children. Some of the latter are entirely rades the town, escorted by halberdiers and preceded nude, while others are draped. In the centre of each THE STUDIO 153 of the crowns a bunch of grapes is carved. At the this year. Millais is represented by his "Last Rose time the message was despatched the discoverers were of Summer," a portrait of his daughter ; Orchardson awaiting the arrival of an Egyptian official, in order by "Deserted" and "Her First Dance," both ex- that the tomb might be formally opened. amples of the spacious interiors in high life, with a graceful lady's figure by which he has popularized his ROM a notice in the Athenceum of a recently pub- art. Flemish landscapes by Beattie-Brown, Robert F lished memoir of the late Sir Frederick Fresely Macgregor's "For the Crimea," Yorkshire scenery by we extract the following : Iveely Halswelle, and portraits by J. J. Shannon, "Interest in and capacity for music were manifest Thomas Graham W. Q. Orchardson, R. Α., being from an almost incredible early age. At three the subject, Martin Hardie, Burn Murdock, and months he is said to have shown discrimination re- Hugh Cameron are among the oil pictures which garding the airs played by his sisters, and to have attract the eye on a first visit. evinced a special fondness for the waltz in Der Frei- schutz. Long before he could speak he repeated UTHE NATIONAL GALLERY" was the sub- melodies he had heard, and always in the correct 1 ject of a lecture given by Dr. J. G. Fitch at the key. At the age of two he could distinguish between Working Men's College, Great Ormond-street, in tonic and. dominant harmony, and at three he London, on Saturday evening, February 15th, Mr. hummed original airs in regular measure and rythm. Frank Dicksee, R. Α., presided. A visitor, said Dr. A little later he seems to have displayed intuitive Fitch, could not get the full intellectual advantage ideas as to correct modulation, and showed a par- which the Gallery was capable of rendering unless he ticular fondness for the chord of the augumented examined the pictures with a clear and definite pur- sixth. He could detect the prevailing note in ordi- pose. One special subject of interest was the history nary noises, and one day he caused much amusement of religious belief as embodied in painting. The rep- by exclaiming, ' only think, papa blows his nose resentation in fuller detail of the scenes of Sacred in G !' —" and Classical story came later, and was contempo- raneous with the revival of an interest in Classical RS. Jopling contributes to last week's number of literature in Italy and in Germany. The serious, M Woman, under the general heading "The solid, and sincere, though somewhat prosaic, charac- World of Breadwinners," an article on artist's models, ter of Dutch painting was more fully represented in which she recommends the professon of model as, in the Gallery than perhaps in any collection in Europe by comparison, one that is well paid. It requires, outside of the low Countries : and the Peel collection as she well observes, "no mental strain, nor any great and the Wynn-Ellis collection showed out at physical effort. A holiday, moreover, can be taken its best the power of Teniers, of De Hoogh, of at will without jeopardizing one's career. All that is Ostade, and of Mieris and Cuyp. In portraiture, necessary, besides a certain amount of good looks is also, our national collection was especially rich. A punctuality and discretion. A gossip, however amus- parallel was to be traced between the treatment of ing she may be, is never encouraged, as artists are landscape by painters and the expression of a love of very sensitive about their pictures being spoken of nature and her works in the literature of their con- before completion." The " profession " of model is, temporaries. A picture gallery was an epitome of according to Mrs. Jopling, looked down upon in history, and a record of the sweetest fancies, of the America. So also it is in France, and we should have highest aspirations, and of the deepest religious con- thought that it was in London if so many distinguished victions, of some of the most gifted men of past times. artists had not married their models. The practice of But it was also in a minor degree a test of character drawing from a model—we mean in this case, from the and of honesty ; for there was always a temptation undraped model—may be defended in the interests of to be beguiled by great names or by the story of art, as the practice of vivisection is defended in the large prices into insincere admiration. Those who interests of surgery. But in each case there is un- would guard themselves against this temptation, and deniably a sacrifice. Browning's blunt deliverance endeavor by careful study to seek out the full meaning on this subject in "Asolando" will be recalled by the of any picture which they could honestly admire, reader. would find at Trafalgar-square a mine of treasure, a store of new thoughts, and a source of genuine and innocent delight. HE sixty-fourth annual exhibition of the Royal T Scottish Academy, opened on Monday, February 17th, shows a praiseworthy effort on the part of the hanging committee, in obedience to public criticism, OBITUARY NOTES. to raise the standard of the works admitted. The display is above the average, although the number of WELL-KNOWN collector and writer on art, M. works hung has been reduced to 738, as compared A with 1,032 in 1889. The space allotted to architecture Eugene Piot, has died, leaving to the Academie and sculpture has been increased, and the latter is des Inscriptions, a branch of the Institut de France, now shown in a room hung with pale green drapery. his entire personality, amounting to a million of francs, Of the 459 oil paintings, no fewer than 169 are sent ai d bequeathing to the Louvre among other things a in by members of the R. S. Α.; but the President, bust-portrait of Michael Angelo, a "St. Catherine " as- Sir Noel Paton, and W. L. Lockhart do not exhibit cribed to Raphael, and a terra-cotta bas-relief by Donatello. THE STUDIO 111
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