New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-03-22

Tho amateur casual at Mr.. Knoedler's Cal
Iery will find, lying upon ofthe ottomaus photo
graph. after pilusnt drawing BY Couture. II wa
brought over lately by Mr. Ebnnger pupil Of Couture
and after having spiced evening ct Of our city
clubs, h0S been kindly sent TO No. Kncedler. TO give
outsiders chance at it. 1t is a perfectly harmless.
though Doubtless meant to be very bitter shot sent into
the well fortified and quite bomb proof citadel OF Con-
tinental Pre- Raphaelites Couture's satire is now
in the days OF his much taked-of "Decadence"-a
spent bail never well aimed. So this little trine hits
nobody and accompIishes nothing but the saving an
unjust and very lmannered thing. in way altogether
charming. 1t represents young artist dressed in
blouse souched felt hat brooches and eggins seated
before modeIers tripod which supports the head Of
great hog be is engaged in drawing. looking up
at it with an absorbed enthusiasm. He has made q
stool of block from antique basreef thus putting
the supreuest art. according TO NJ. Couture, 10 tho
basest use while he deyotes himself TO the study OF
Natures vies creation. The artists studio is gar
re and on pegs the wall hang various articles which
has probably already mado the object of afctonats
stud5an old knapsaok, battered tin candlesick, an
unsavory string Of onions wilted cabbage an itused
shoe. and banged and broken lantern His umbrella
and stick in the corner his pipes and tobacco jar
the shelf beneath the hogs head and at his side on
tho floor shaltfued bottle of wine. with the lumber
inverted on its aeck. and by it a hafempty luncheon
wallet. In tho lower efthand corner is written I'm
Realistic; T. c. 1865" The drawing being interpreted
means, then simply. that "a roalisr which
Is another. name for what we call "a Pre-.
Raphaelite"-,s an artist whose aims are hoggsh.
whose habits ore sensual, whose manners Gre
boorish end whose surroundings squad Certainly.
- - ,ln 10 tha
ton. This description then. must apply. leaving
the B3glishmen-M illais, Hunt. Hook and Rosse,h
out OF the questoD-to Gerome. Legs. Tssot Fiere.
Dteroche (who certainly no idealsD, srd dozen
lesser names Of clever skiDl painters whom fame has
in her keeping and whom to defend woud argue ridie
uous conoc in Us. We might suggest to the ad-
urers OF Couture whether his great picture which,.
perhaps has rather lost than gained in public estina
ton since It was first exhibited. would not have been
greater have exercised powerful and lasting in!
auense it, instead Of holding up the RIGHTEOUSNESS Of
Paris to rebuko and shame by depicting wholly uae-
nary and improbable scene in Rome under the lster
Cgsars he had painted actual transporting in
Paris under Napoleon the small Mr.. Couture. il he
had the power to do this faithfully directly and strongly
which We doubt. would have achieved Immortality az
well place in the Luxembourg As it is be will DO
forgotten simply because be was not realist when he
should have BEEN For the rest this little drawing at
Mr. Knoeder's shows masters hand 1t is most firmly.
beautifully drawn. 1t is bit Of realism which
leaves even Millas far behind. Whenshau we see the
Ike done herei
Mr.. Randolph, corner of Ninth-st. and
Broadway has for sale two small statues portraits Of
Longfellow and Bryant. made by Mr. Kuntze Our
quarrel with Mr. Kuutze is that the simple truth is
never good enough for him. He takes issue with Nature
among other things the subject legs She has seen
fit 10 give them TO the majority OF human beings II n
to be presumed that both Mr. Longfeow and MI Bryant
have the necessary number and that they have par.
tcular reason TO be ashamed Of them. but Mr. kuntze
thinks they should be- AL the Academies have taught
him So and he accepts the deum Therefore he covers
the legs OF these gentlemen up with sufficient drapery
and thinks that somehow other this makes his statues
| Art when without the blankets they would be mere
pieces of realism We beg Mr.. Kuntze not TO let tho
word realism frightsn him. Nothing would be more
acceptable to the public than statues of these two men.
showing them TO exactly as they sit at their daily
work This is a case where realism is the one thing
needfu; and. as Mr.. Kuntze has made several very
clever little figures that have seer, ofpeople We
know in private life, we dare say he could do as wen
With our poets who among tie most unpretend
ing OF men, We do not at all Ike Mr. KuntZe's symbol
/ ism, and wish be would discard it. The skull at
Bryan,s side seems quite Hnmeanng and is very badly
modelled. II it is meant allusion to the Thsna
tops human skull should have been chosen. Of course.
Or was Mr. Kunze afraid be should brighten the ladies'