New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-04-01
A Beautiful Painting.

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Every one who IL at aIL with an,er,car
art, has seen either the original 81 some copv Of
Coles celebrated of Life, beautiful a1Ierorv
worked out in four pictures, ii as much poyyer and
inspiration as any this country has ever nraduced
They take newborn child, conduct II tEroueI,
infancy youth, manhood ard Old ags, iii Iast open-
ing the portals overhead, and usherina tbe free1
spirit into another and brighter world The coneen-
tion and execution have both been highly praised and
the great whole stands among onr foremost works ~
art. They have been distributed, recently BY some
Art Union scheme, in Cincinnati.
y painting, not unlike Coles in general purport.
in excellence Of plan; excellence of conception and
coloring, has been recently produced by an artist
whose name we are confident will yet be prominent
among those Of our country -Mr. Robert GschWindt
he has executed work which combines the thighess
merits Of allegorical art with great truhfaness Of
poEtfaltare. IT is intended to represent q young
aau gatef Of Goi Acklen and to merge her own per-
sonaasy ~ q dream which she had not long before
sr assth, wherein an Angel appears and stands by
Ut Ihe little girl is sitting upon a. sofa,
u u. partally reclining position At her side.
5ass N fs1aoVed as to give the portrait perfect
e1nbsssoil appears the Angel, looking kindly and
aHecHonafey a. ct upon her, and with tie Ieft hand
upralsed, pointing above. The portrait Z vers,
natural and well executed although ~ eannof o,,os
thinking that Ike most postnortera uietnrea tba
coloring is somewhat dead and too ear M rFecae
copy AS i was taken fortnight after dsafh Al,
could hardly be expected otherwise
The Angel is q very beautiful and poetic conca,.
-golden-haned and blue with features 1,
the highest degree spiritueie ana ldying. looxing
like an incarnation Of affection and innocence Tha
wings have dreamy, feathery and indfstnet appear
ance, which obviates in great DEGREE aur natural
association and antagonism between the real and the
ideal that which is hard earthly fact and that which
IS the beautiful conception Of the mind Tie egDres
sion Of the mouth and eyes as pure and innocent al
thing we have ever seem and the whole figure ig
that OF an airy Undne, selfvoIant and oVeraoWng
with love. From the waist down the mist suppIants
that pictorial millinery TOO often made use Of, and lust
touches thesfoot Of the couch. A great promise and
expectation hreathes in the whole being and an appa
rent effort is exhibited to open for the diving child
some such glorious view the spectator is compelled
to imagine yet rest and irradiate the memory of
the Angel l.guardian.
IL ls very difficult thing to paint with words all
that IS expressed by the brush. 1t is the high pre-
rogatye Of the latter TO embrace thousand senti-
ments too shadowy and ethereal for utterance. It
seems to us that, IN this picture poet painter has
written out an eiegy and allegory Of far more than
ordinary merit-indeed, anything NE have
seen TOR long time He has told two storiesos this
world and the next and has 20 beautifully draped
that transition state in which the mortal puts ON
Immortality and death is swallowed up in life, as to
make the journey delightful and attractive, rather
than gloomy and dark; riscolored with premise the
mind fails to wholly comprehend. It was the manner
Of the ancents to make death great GoIgotha and
place Of skulls to nscrbe the tomb with crossbones
and inverted torches; to paint setting sun and
gathering cloud Our more kindly aud christian
philosophy rejects the barbaro customs and depicts
rather rising sun, opening binds, and the song of
birds In the painting of Col Acklens daughter this
theology of civilization is beautifully aIlegorized and
wrought out. The painting can be seen for few
| days at the carpet store of Todd q Co., 100 Canal
/ r.,