New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-14
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who would look well on canvas. We have iazzAroni
in ABUNDANCE hanging about our public markets, as
gutess Of Naples soap and vicious In looks as any
of the subjects Of King Bomba. Yet our artists rarely
think it becoming in them to give us glimpse Of the
loose fish that float in the turbd stream OF our own So
cial system. Murlo loved to paint Spanish beggsrs
and Edouard Frcre loves 10 paint French chdren but
the delight of artists with an exception or two is
to paint ikenesses Of an Italian pisrar, or peasant
boy of the Campagns. Dur Streets too are so full of
brilliant color that it lie wonder our artists are not
tempted to give as more frequent glimpses of them.
We have seen recently some sketches in oil of street
scenes in New-York, by Ggnoux, which show what
unworked capabilities there in this crowded
tropols for the artist. One Of these sketches Is as
markabe for its brancy Of color and pcturesqueness
az for its truthfulness. Thousands have daily passed
bv the dila dated sheds which surround that disgrace
full apanage of the city, Fulton Market, without stop
ping to Zee how full of brilliant effects il is for the pur-
pores of the artist The foul smells Of that receptacle
of all the luxuries Of the season will prevent people OF
sensitive natures from lingering long among its
stenches but Mr. Gignoux has put the scene upon bis
canvas 80 that it's splendors may be enjoyed without
experiencing the discomfors Of its doors. The whole
sidewalk which surrounds the Market is covered over
BY adspdated she'd and you look through the vista
Won see strange collection Of fruits and flowers and
human beings in all possible varieties Of costsme
There are pyramids of golden oranges glowing in the
sunshine piles of great green watermeons punches OF
bananas hanging from the rafers green, yellow, and
crmson boiled Holsters in heaps cardinals of the sea,
az Jules JaDin calls them, in their crimson shels; yell
low lemons and cantelopes; market women in blue
gowns and market in blazing red shirts; peaches,
cherries and apcots Towering SHRUBS of every kind
and branches of dark ever0eens; while standing in
the Gun, near heaps of pineapples, glittering like
mountains of light are great Jumps of ice just landed
from a canvascovered ice-cart. The whole scene
looks as confused with color as painters palette; it
is all over daubed with red black, green yellow, and
purple 1t is just scene Like this, with its human ac-
cessories, that Gignoux has dashed upon his canvas
with an effect wonderful for its breadth and vgor.
-Apropos of markets We alluded lately to the
striking contract exhibited by some Of the recently
erected marble stores in Broadway when compared
with some of the old stores downtown, built thirty
years ago. as showing the great progress that has been
made in artistic culture among US in that period. The
new Tcmpkins Market, built opposite the Cooper In
stitute though piece of scandalous Corporation job
bery, is miracle of architectural beauty compared
with the Fulton Market which, forty years ago, was
one of the city wonders that New-Yorkers used to
boast Of.
MY. Hicks has nearly finished bis portrait Of Gov
King for the City Hall; it is striking portrait, and
very good picture. The Governor is represented
stand ng at full length in suit Of sober black costume
de rigueur, between two windows draped with olive
coored curtains while on his antique desk is rather
confused assemblage Of books and papers, more credit
able to the skill of the artist than to the mehodca
habits of his Excelency 1t locks more Like the desk
of an editor than of Governor. But, why is there
no portrait of that "good old man., Governor Clark,
in the Portrait Gallery of the City HALF There is
hiatus in the pictorial chronicles Of the State as re-
corded in our City Hall, which viii lead to great con.
fusion hereafter unless it shall be filed up. The por.
traits of Governor Seymour and Governor King will
soon be added to the collection in the City Hall, but
there has not yet been any appropriation made for the
portrait of Governor Clark. Do our Aldermen mean
to ignore the existence of that worthy "pubic func.
tionary" altogether?
Among the young painters of genre subjects who
have gone over Paris from this country to perfect
themselves in their art is Mr.. NJ. w. Dana, some ex.
amples of whose talent that We have seen evince
very great promise.
1t is long time since Mr.. Weir has exhibited
new picture. His professional duties at West Point ap-
pear to absorb nearly all bis time. He appointed to
this post when Mr.. Leslie retired from it in Disgust,
and since then he has painted but few pictures beside
his great historical painting for the Capitol at WASH
ngton But we learn that he has recently completed
picture, the subject Of which is Taking the Veil"
and somebody who has seen it calls it "superb," an
epthet which does not apply with much force to the
Professors other pictures. They have their merits,
but they are not of order that be justly desg-
mated as superb
Pages Venus is now on q starring tour through
the interior of this State The goddess was lately ex-
hibited in Albany the native city Of the artist and
where some of hisnest portraits may be found, greatly
to the delight of the chaste Albanisns If the local jour
mails are to be trusted The late John l.. Schoolcrst
of Albany was liberal patron Of Mr. Page and of the
finest of his portraits was haflength of that gentle
man, painted about fifteen years since.
There are two or three marine pieces by Mr. Brad
ford of New Bedford at the Gallery Of Mr. Schaus, in
Broadway, which are worth seeing One ofthem is a
view of SancOty Head" high blaff on the south
side of Nantucket one of the widest points
tire sea coast.
Mis- Stebbins anu mr. nolier, TWO Oh our naei'e
sculp,ors, have recently returned to New-York from
Rome, and has been announced that George Cruik-
shank, the artist, came in the same ship with them.
But the &c. Cruikshank" whose name was announced
in the passenger list was not the great George who
first made himself famous by his carcatures and then
achieved new reputation as Temperance reformer.
No Epglishman would have been more heartily vel.
coined here than this greatest Of Brtannas Georges,
but unbsppiy he has not paid us the compliment of
personal visit.
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