New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-31
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.

| America-The New Museum OF Art
The Pictures of Belmont, COrcoran,
| Sumner, Groesbeck, Walters, McGuire,
ProbascO, AspinwaIl, Biodgett, and
Yale, Cambridge and Vassar Colleges.
Especial Correspondence of the Republican,
NEW YORK, May 26, 1871.
The English -prOfanely
called the High Joints"-sailed in the
| Cuba Wednesday. All fashionable New
York, as is usual with the Wednesdays Gu
narders, went down to see the good ship off.
While the big Cuba was in the act of back
ing around to go down the bay, the tele-
graph flashed the news of the ratification of
the treaty in the Senate, and the High
Joints went out to sea happy indeed, with
their great work an fat accompH.
Wednesdays Cunarder is the favorite
ship out of New York for Europe, and on
this day vessel goes every week, freighted
with the creme de la creme of New York
society. 1t is only the Wednesdays vessel
which refuses to take steerage passengers.
All the literary connOisseurs are now
looking on Europe for specimens from the
religious pre-Raphaelite Fra Angelica,
Perugino, the tutor of Raphael, Michael
Angelo, Andrea del Sarto, Leonardo da
| Vinci, the Christ painter; Claude, the land
scapist; Titan, the colorist; Reubens, the
| bold; Teniers and Messonnier, the realists,
| and old John Turner, the insane
OfAmerican artists we are to have nothing
| contemporary-nO, we shall not see Church,
| Weis and Eastman johnson, but only West
Trumbull Lutz, COpley and Elliot. In
marble it is proposed to have specimens
cast from the antique collections in the
| Vatican at Rome, and in the museums at
Berlin, Madrid and Paris, and the National
Gallery in London. Phidias, Canova and
Thorwalsden will be represented, as will
be the engravers Albert Durer, Raphael
Morghen, TOschi, Steinla, Lefere, Strange,
Sharp and Nordheim.
WHO OWN PICTURES IN AMERICA
Maybe some of your New Orleans tourists
would like to know where to find pictures
in this country-I mean masterpieces AS
your correspondent read almost the first
essay in favor of our new gallery, when it
was in Its infancy, his observations might
d
the North.
The best antique collection is old Yale
College, the Jarvis collection" which gives
art specimens from the twelfth century up
through the ages of Guercino, Domenichino,
and Carracci. Mr.. Barlow, picture dealer
i'll Washington, owns a Perugino, and Mr..
Miner H. kellogg, in Washington, owns an
original Leonardo da Vinci, subject, Hero
dias.' Mr.. Kellogg once owned LA
Belle Jardinere," since sold to Lord
Ashburton, of Bath House, Piccadilly.
Vassar College, at Poughkeepsie, has four
John NJ. w. Turner's, secured through DR..
Magood from his friend John Ruskin SEN
ator Sumner has several Ruysdaels, and
the best collection of engraved portraits
in America. Mr. Walters, of Baltimore, has
charming collection of modern pictures
including MeissOnnier. Mcclure. of Wash
ingtOn, is prolific in the Dutch school, and
Mr.. W. w. COrcOran has given to Washing
ton several Coles, a Church, a Raphael
Mengs, Joseph Vernet (brother of Horace),
"a Nandyck, Teneyck, Rembrandt, Reubens.
Murillo, and the original Greek Slave of
Powers Though Powers says not.) Lloyd
Aspinwall, the ship man, has, down on
University place, a most charming antique
collection, including Teniers, Titians, Valas-
quez, Carlo Dolci, Correggio, Paul Veronese,
Guido, Murillo, Sassafarrotto and Wouver-
mans. William I. BlOdgett, of Fifth
avenue, has the French school in perfec-
ton, such as Meissonnier, Frichel, Diaz, Du-
pre-, Contour, Rosa BOnheur, Gerome.
Troyon, Rousseau, Merle and Never Won
Bremen. August Belmont, of Fifth avenue.
has both the French and Dutch school, such
as Knaus, Aehenbach Oswald and An
drea), Bellange, Beranger, Bougereau,
Calame, De Camp. Gerome, Null
Ter, Merle, Meyer Won Bremen, Millet,
Plassan, Verschuur and Vernet John Hoey,
OF Fifth avenue, has among his superb col
lection the best Gerome in this country,
- The Egyptian Dancing Girl" 10. Long
worth, of Cincinnati, has Achenbach in
perfection, and William S. Groesbeck, of
the same city, has the best Verbockhoven
sheep piece in America; he has about
twenty-five charming pictures. The Sprin-
ger gallery, in Cincinnati, will well pay any
one visit But if you ever go to Boston,
don't fail to run over to Cambridge and see
the finest collection of engravings in this
country. Think of engravings no larger
than the top of your hat worth $500, And
then look at the artists proofs of Steinla's
and Tochis isis tine Madonna" worth fabu-
lOus sums. LANDON.