New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-27

been informed that Turner vss the Testes artist OF
fhD or any sge. Not subscribing 70 he full snh and
breath this notion but having aud studied HE
greatest works, we have nevertheless profound rev.
erence Tor his genius. AID 10 those who hsve formed
their conceptions of bis works rom reading Of him,
ard whom theee sle.ches have surprised snd disAp-
pointed let say that they give idea whatever of
his artistic power and that unfair to bis f.ns that
the drec or Of the exhibition does not state in the
catalogue.
Ore iamif cs,ion Of Mr. Ruskins theory ofA-, insist.
upon the necessity that representations onsta objects
should be identical with their subjects in every quail
ity-snd, by way Of iluustiop, he makes from time
10 time what be calls study" As with the works
Of other amateurs sometimes these studies chsrsc-
teIized by degree of cellenoe, and sometimes by
its absence. No. 15j, Study Of Block Of Gneiss,
IL full Of detail which may be exact but probably is
net because ii would require 3 very long period Of
time. admitting q wonderful y true perception and
ODE dent band, to reproduce exactly oil the minute IT.
reeulaiities Of the surface ssd ssures But granting
that considered a. . study both these and the shape
and local color are well enough done to suggest TO
any interested in the study of geology the super
fetal characteristics Of gneiss We think II is Only
fair that Mr. Ruskin ihould explain for the benef. Of
srAsts what is meant by tie exceedingly purple bsck-
ground. Although We are told in the catalogue thst
the block of gness is in the Valley Of Chamouni,
Switzerland" We are spprehensve no such sky and
trees exit in that region.
The English school eeems to have an inevitable ten
dency toward alegory. Even tie stll-hfs painter
can hardly get on without imposing names. Nos. 20
"a, 95 &C. by Lsrce called Morning, Noon, Even
irg ard Nght-vby, puzzles US, because the quality
End hue Of light are preciely the same 10 each
The,e and other works by the same hand are, how
ever in many respects, brilliant In local and i'm
stive color than any in the watercolor department
If the English collection fails to give sdequateides
ofrecept English AT the French is even more deficient,
for while it includes some gems the picture attributed
TO Vebet s credit TO him; those of Troyon give no
idea Of his truthful power and that Of Couture painted
twenty years ago, is the beginning of stye Of
color which he has sifce perfected, and which has
formed school The picture Of the Chess Players, BY
Mei,sonner, fairly represents his wonderful skill and
felicity both in expression and execution and contains
within its small limits tina. equal and esfentia finish
which sohdfes the reputation of an artist. The pic
lures of Frere are also admirable in this 70.
spect. They are filed with the most exquisite
and necessary finish, sufficiently elaborate, aud Ct
the same time pervsded by simple human
truth, 80 touching in sentiment so delicste in treat
ment a. to place him in the very first rank in his de-
psrtment If we had with these La Smals, by Vernet
the Hemicycle and the Duke de Guiae, BY Dslsrocae
the Deesdencs and Boy and Hawk, of Couture, not
to mention other fire pictures by these and other dis
tirguished Frenchmen, should have representation
Of the school which tbis collection il not The picture
by scheffer, ard that by Muller, though they
are characteristic, not among their chief works
But throughout the entire collection the tone Of color
and the drawing generally true, and not offensive
The two Rosa Bonheurs are Is natural as any works
there But even they do not compare in any quality of
excellence with her picture of the Horse Fair" Re-
gsrded from several points of view, this is perhaps,
the best foreign picture, with the exception of one or
two by Paul DelaIocbe we have yet in this coun
try The subject in itself does not admit Of much Of
the expression common to hun an nature. The jockeys
ard rough men who with the horses are, by force
Of association, only . little more human than they.
But the expression of the horses is well chosen and de-
pcted in the moot mastery The drawing, both
as regards contour rotundiy and perspective or FORE
Shortening Is in many instances superior to oriticm
the cooriDg is vigorous and glowing; the manner
execution without trick Of any kind and admirable IN
it's hapkrets breadth and power. The quality in th.
picture, however which is its perpetual source Of fas
cnstion, 20 naturally employed as almost to conceal
ITSELF is the distribution and transparency Of the shs
dows. These are rejected and arranged with 80 much
delicate pcturesquenes as not only to overcome the
uginess of the clumsy Norman hoses but to pervsde
the picture with q charming interest which win be
pleasure and "sjoy forever
One word as to the Beatrice Cenci," piece OF
sculpture by the American sculptress,P Miss Hos
mer, on exhibition with the English pictures. It must
be viewed rather study than as finished statue
There is nothing extraordinary in it asa work Of Art,
but considered a. study it has The absence Of classic
nyentionaims 20 common TO modern sculpture, and
contains much that is conscentousy true to nature,
particularly in the elaboration Of the drspsry. If the
artist i, not ruiz ed by unwise adustOn she may pro-
duce better things hereafter.