The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-07-26

uation OF the picture is to be found in the meeting
ana mlngilng OF the common tints of evening, with
the more radiant traces of the sunset. One of the
admirable characteristics of Murillos art is the
gradual interfusion of his colors rendering it diff
cult to mark the line where one shade ceases and
the next begins. This is particularly conspicuous
in the golden atmosphere, with which he surrounds
his virgins of the Immaculate Conception The
floating robes to melt into tie light and This
again fades, darkling, into the vapor which, in its
turn, becomes a cloud. Mr.. Church has dealt in
a like mastery way, with the same difficulty.
heightened greatly, OF course, by the far greater
variety of color belonging to his subject.
think it is quite apparent from what Nave
ALREADY SAID, that the characteristics of the paint
ing under consideration those of sunset rather
IMAM twilight-of daylight lingering, in its mel
have not attempted to indicate to YOU one 1.-THE If
OF the sunset gorgeousness, with Wilhelm SYDNEY
Smiths bright language-the scene is "glorifed."
The hrst thing that strikes you, on approaching
the picture, IS rack Of crimson clouds filling the
the whole left of the upper canvass while, on the
other side, and nearer the horizon a rich mass of
notified purple shines through the hemlock bouohs
almost as brilliantly. For an instant Won hesitate
and ask yourself whether it is not over-wrought-
whether the painter has not gone wild like Turner
with the Tyrian splendor, and hung the heavens
with damask.
The doubt and question are but momentary. for
as you trace the many colored light through all its
snlltlngsIsee It's reflection on the river and its
Ill
with the vapor on the mountains and grows deener
ana rlcher IN the purple gorges down between.
tnere come back to you remembrances of scenes
just IKE what is before you, which have enchanted
you thousand times, and which you have felt that
IL would seem exageratiOn to tranfer to canvass
even were it possible. Mr.. Ruskin has said thai
before Turner, "none had dared to paint the scar
let and purple" 1t certainly does need some
DARING to attempt to kinde at ones easel such
flame as nature lights upon our hills
and cloud banks, in the bright season. and the most
courageous painters have either shrunk from the
task or dealt with it timidly or rashly. think it
was Lady Mary Wortley Montague who was shown
in chapel on the continent a vessel containinr
some OF the darkness which overspread the land Of
Egypt. Mr.. Church mi ght surely place beside il
as twIn-marvel, some of the refugence which he
mas drawn down from the skies, as st. Cecilia won
the angel H --.t .rsE "oh
Whatever may be said Of the title of the pcture
SO iar as It's twilight peculiariies are concerned
there can be no fault found with that part of it
Whle , iooges the scene in the wilderness. Not
single trace OF man or his works is on the land
scape-not so much even, as the smoke of hunters
hre upon hillside. Nature is there, primmyal
and alone solitary bird sits nesting on naked
Dough IN the foreground, and few distant water
1owl are seen dimly, fastening homeward across
the stream. Thick forests, mostly of hemlock and
pine, cover the hills where the foliage is distn-
guishabe, and here and there a heavy pile of
moss-grown rock trowns from the banks. The
river, tranquil and full, is miraculously brooded
over by the silence and solitude of the hour and the
spot.
tufted isiet, so fairy like that it seams almost
to be drifting with the tide breaks the sweep of the
stream in the mid distance and then the waters
iost lot whlle between two wooded interlockinp
promontores, appear again far off among the hills
shining and crmsoned. The immediate foreoround
is elaborated with all that wonderful beauty and
truthfunesS of detail which is so marked feature
on the "Heart of the Andes" and which of itself.
as speciality, might suffice to make the artist IA
nous, though it were not linked with so manv
higher gifts, such skill in composition or so fertile
and lofty a creative faculty
l have only to add that the work which deyelops
all these wonders is hardly more than forty inches
In length or thereabouts, by twenty four in depth
Some OF the critics think that to this limited space
the picture owes, in some degree, what they call its
concentration" and "unity." 1t would be quite
as sensible to say that straight Jacket gives man
sanity, or small head implies Observation-Disclosures of
mind. Diffuseness or incongruity, lack of crea-
tive combination-if they belong to the hamlet
are not to be covered by small canvass or com
passed by small frame. When they exist in the
man they Will find their way into a battle
piece no larger than the smallest of
Wouverman's, or miniature landscape, on ivory,
or IN enamel done for ladys cabinet. The har-
mony which united and blended in the ssHeart of
the Andes"-such a world of mountain, forest,
plain, cloud, lake and torrent was certainly not a
matter of square inches Many however, NAV
still agree with an elderly lady, who safe by me
during my first visit ~ don't like it." Said her
companion to her, GAS well as the Andes 20 "Of
course moi" was the reply "why that's three times
as Big
see by the papers that the exhibition will close
next Wednesday, X.