New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-16
vlEws OF THINGS, ETC, IN PARIS.
THE HOTEL DROUOT

bsaTskoads dc mea5es, de toaette, dc taofedN1, &c
brse-s-brac etc, as numerous as any other class Oh
dealers in Paris. As represented IN the easement
sssms of the hotel, at furniture and miSehaneous
sales, they are unpublished and nnfragraat Among
shem sprinkng Of the genter sex, out not OF Its
sentler specimens Male and female, they are want
r NOT smp,y in distinctive French urbsnity, but in
srt;narx civilized nansuetnde Their manners are
unrefped their elbows aggressive their raiment in
elegant. They exhale whiffs Of garlic; they
seourse.p The hands of these imperial subjects
A tAe hands Of an unwashed democracy, and the nails
iereef are the talons of unclean birds But there
ape higher orders in the general class, unexcep
ionable in all personal respects.
Next come the amateurs. They are mainly attend
ant at saes Of pictures and other works Of art and Of
ssriositts such az armor ancient foreign costumes
Porceains, medals army, antique, and rocco furn-
tare, etc. They differ from each other as widely and
vaIiously as folks. There exclusive amateurs of
The old, Of the new; of carved wood, of scuptured
bronze or MARBLE pictures only; of the old, OF the
scemporary, Of hs school, Of that in pictorial art Of
fst pieces battle pieces genre pieces; Of historical
pieees Of volupuous indecences of drawing fcoor;
Of composition of frames, even; of Chinese porce-
lins Of old Saxon porcelain. Others there are, cath
ehe in their taste want of taste. The chefest pleas
ore Of the thorough amateur comes to lie finally, not
70 much in the objects themselves in the collecting
sftbem. As your thorough money maker, who first
songbt fortune as a means of Interior enjoyments,
comes 10 find his chiefest one in the mere money
making.
The Marquis of HEREFORD is, if measured by the
prices he pays and the quantity Of his acquisitions the
greatest of living amateurs II was he who bought,
IT the late sale Of his deceased brother Lord Seymour
h quite poverty-stricken gentleman in comparison
with the copiously affiuent MarquisJ, Bonningtons
masterpiece, Henry LII. receiving the Spanish En-
hassador" for 40 900 francs e. with the necessary
Eve per cent commission, over 81 900 francs. The
vounrer brother paid for it, some years ago, 1850
francs. This same Marquis one of the two bidders
opposed to Count Neuwekerke, who pushed the
famous Murilo, now in the Salon Carrb of the
Louvre, at the Marshal Sout sale, to over 100000
francs He has, If not the most valuable, the most
expensive private collection Of pictures III Europe.
But be has no gallery. His treasures are for the
most part, am told, packed away front TO back in
many rooms like gross merchandise in bonded ware
house. His love for art is sunk exaggerated, TO
rasson, a greed Of accommodating. The singer, Tam
kurni had choice collection Of snuf-boxes, which
probably grew ont of imperial and royal gifts in that
kind bomages paid to his musical talents-of great
value either for fine godsmiths work for the mlna
ssres upon them or for the diamonds they were en-
s<bed WITH by association with their original donors
and owners. There was recently disposed Of here by
private bargain its nature and the French laws pre-
venting its exhibition at the Hotel, very costly and
rare muse um of the grosses artstcay painted scup-
Jared carved and designed indecencies-not 10 be
fnrher treated of in decent type. There in Belgium
an amateur, whose name for the moment escapes me,
whose passion has attached itself TO buttons The cul
tvaton of has resulted in vertable historical nu-
scum. Arranged in chronological order it displays
abe progressive butonng up of the nations from the
ancient Persians and Gaus in their simply -hitched
5raeoae TO the contemporary "cirilsse" on his own
eompicstely fastened integuments- 1t has been OBJ
served and is worth observing again. that the useful
buttons in human rament have increased from prime
val and savage ooeeness and exguty OF dress, about
m ,roportion with the progress of Christianity and
Civilization The specially of this collection is said to
be its military department. which is exceedingly rich
and curious Its proprietor Mr.. Van Derhookuysen
6f that be his name IT, however, reported to suffer
greatly from the ong-deferred hope of adding to 1t
certain button of certain of the first uniformed
guards in the service Of the Kings of France.
One Of the most important picture auctions that has
occurred here since the Duchess of Orleans disposed
ut a very handsome advance from first cost, OF her
husbands gallery in 1882 was the Paurean sale; an
array of gems. Its Kohinoor was the famous Hob
hema the third best known production Of that greatest
master of air and sunlight. The first best is in pos
SESSION of the King of Holland. The fourth best 49, or
a wear ago was somewhere here in Paris 1t was ex-
posed for sale at the Hotel but in those doubtful hard
times no one felt rich enough TO bid upon at the up
ret price of As, 900 francs, and it was withdrawn.
There were no solid forms in it except some trees aud
some ground, and some water, and a house or mill,
and an insignificant human figure or two But looking
on that fiat piece of canvass bounded by narrow
frame two feet by three less, your gladdened
eve looked out and out the Indifferent landscape
into forty thousand forty million unlimited cubic miles
of luminous air of lighted space The white and ye
low paint Of il was an overlooked accident 1t was
heavens own natural essential light, and IT needed pit
% connoisseurs second thought TO admire the art OF IT,
Explain it. you cannot-that light-unless you accept
as explanation the expansion Of the Pronethean
spark bursting out, brilliant and ambent, from the
kinded soul of genins. Your first emotion on looking
INTO that picture was not admiration of the artist, but
grateful endowment of nature. As Hamlet, Macbeth,
ShyIock make Won forget Shakespeare at first to en-
bance afterward your thankful wonder at his creative
mower. To return to the Patureau Hobbema 1t went
for 100 Oo france and cheap at that banker SchuSe
II think that is the n2me), at Berlin who would not
part with it, fancy for large advance on that sum-
constantly drawing, as he may, large cividehds Of
pleasure from it's contemplation. Nj. Patureau is a
type iDso facto amateur if stories be true He had
already collected for the fun Of the thing, ana
sold al handsome pecuniary advantages, remarkable
cellar of choice Wines After the disposal Of his pic
tnre gallery which largely made up in the cheap