New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-18
FINE LETS.


Mr. DOv;zielli, citizen of Rome, has brought
with him TO this city collection of modern Italian
nctures which will shortly be exhibited to the
public.
The Paris newspapers state that many thou
sand objects of art have been purchased at the great
Fvbibition by English collectors. The South Ken
sineton Museum has acquired Fourdinois's superb in
laid Cabinet for 200 l., Signor CasteanIs COLLECTION
Of Italian peasant jewelry for LOO j., and the
Tbevmor collection of Arabian and Cairene orna-
ments.
John Camden Hotten announces as to appear
Immediately, civilian Blake Artist and Poets
critical essay BY Algemon Charles Swinburne'"
The advertisement further states that 1.-The colored
illustrations to this book have all been prepared by
careful hand. rom the OIlBlnal ulaNlhsS PduVu "
Blake and his WIFE"
The sales at auction of Mr. Alexander
Posonvi's collection of the engraved works OF Albert
Direr which was to have taken place on the llth OF
November. was fortunately prevented by its being
sold entire to a single purchaser Amateurs IN Eu-
rope are congratuatng themselves laI thls laI i
collection believed TO he the cOmpletest IN the World
will not be dispersed, for the present at least
Messrs Leeds g. Miner will sell at auction
TAG Of the small oil paintings by the late Dr. Edward
Rupples. which were we-knOwn as the "Ruggies
Gems Dr. Rugges was a most worthy gentleman,
and rs we presume this sale IS Tor the Oenet Oh MS
family we sincerely t1ust 1t may prove ien ail
tive. The sale will take place at Leeds q mIneI
Rooms on the corner of Broadway ana lWelIth'bt''
on Friday evening Dec ~
If has been reported that Meissoner has sold
the largo picture on which he has been so long at
work and which has never been exhibited in public
for 10000 francs. The picture is called lsO'," ana
represents regiment of cavalry passing before the
Fmperor Napoleon during the battle of Friedland
and solutinG him with wild, enthusiastic gestures
,J ov,Itno cries IL il indeed true that the large
snm named has been offered 10 Meissonier but IT was
refused for the present because the picture ~ not yS
finished and the artist does not wish 10 Dlhd lseI
Inv any premature engagement. The offer was maze
Inv an American. n gentleman from Cincinnall, VINO
is reported to have made large purchases OF pictures
in France during recent VISIT nc nus G TIl1a
100000 francs in pictures by DelacIoiN, IheOdoie
Rousseau DCcamps. and others, which he INTENDS 20
make the nucleus of collection that - to ryal the
richest galleries Of Europe. (Oh, niue CW0AHNf
why do you make game OF the gentleman from I'm
cin1ati n Before leaving America, says the malicious
journal he nut q large sun INTO the hAuus OF COM
missiOneIs TO erect n building suincichty IaIge 10
hold this great collection. Who Is the American
Monte Christie the Nerdant millionaire oI lniS iateSt
French canardf
A correspondent of the ChroRiqWe des Arts,
writing from London, describes an original drawing
bv Titan in the collection Of the British Museum
which APPEARS TO be the original sketch for the
painting of Peter Martyr the recent destruction Oh
which by fire has deprived the world OF one OK us
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with the pen and differs materially from the finished
picture at least a. represented by tho engraVihgS
The band which holds the robe OF the murderer
masses over the night shoulder instead OF being is-
t.npd IN thc left shoulder. One OF the trees IN the
background is fir; the trunk Of the tree IN the lore
ground nj the night is not in the drawing, ana me
soldiers who are fleeing away N the distance IN the
original are also omitted in the sketch. moro I'M
pOrtant difference is that instead oil netWO cheIuDs'
one of them holding palm branch, there J.. but one
in the drawing An inscription on the back OF INC
roncr which was al first thought 90 be in Titan
handwriting, aud which purport3 10 be a neioIlh'
dun Of his agreement 10 paint the l,cluIe Iol 4 81,
tain sum. has been examined by Mt. f9hlLIl' me
Librarian Of the Museum, and declared by hlln aiteI
comparison with letters known 10 be IN lltah manu-
writing 10 have been written az least a century
later ne drawing which Is oi the highesl Naluc'
was formerly in the possession Of Mr. Payne kuirht
Miss Amelia b. Edwards writes 70 The ARe-
mann that secgHd large, and careful Original dG-
sign by Titan for this same picture - IN England
il Is j. inches long by u ncheS ~ 1lu ~ ia
the possession Of SIR Thomas Phillips 81 Chellchih
by whom il was purchased at the sale oil sH lhoihas
Laureuces collection.
Messrs. Ball g. Black have sent rs q circular
announcing that they have for sale one hundred
copies of Rembrandt Peales portrait Of Washington,
drawn on stone by the artist and carefully reouchod
by his own hand Since Mr. Peae's death, the stone
on which this drawing made has been destroyed,
and consequently these hundred copies. with a 80"
that the artist himself disposed Of are all that can
ever be offered to the public. Moreover Messrs. Ball
& Black declare that if at the end Of 80 days-the
circular bears no date-auy Of the prints should be
unsod they viii be taken TO Europe, and disposed
of there We are assured by several contemporaries
of Washington in series Of extracts from Letters
written by them, and published al the end OF the
circular, that the likeness is a very iMtnInl one
Chief Justice Marshall writes: have never seen q
portrsit OF that great ma which exhibited 50 per
fcct a resemblance of him" Judge Washington
ditto. Judge, Cranch, ditto Charles C4Irol OF
Carrollton II brought 10 my recollection his conn
tenance such as il was at the commencement Of The
Revolution" and VIM. Rush writes: Il have been
IN battle under his command, have viewed him ire
queutly on horseback and on foot, walking. stand
ing aud sitting have modelled nm IN WOOD ana
clay repeatedly and consider your portrait the best
likeness of him In the VigOr of life have ever seen
on canvas These witnesses are not TO be disre-
garded. and there is no doubt that the drawing II
valuable But Pcale was "A very indifferent artist-a
mere mechamc-and the portrait has about as lnuch
look of the living man as Mr. VIM Rusl's models IN
wood probably had II is impossible for Ms to agree
with tie extTavagant estimate that Messrs. Ball ~
Black place upon this hthOgraph.