New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-01
ZINE AETS-MUSIC-DRAMA.
sTA PICTURE STORE.

n cr,vl desires to know ." Whats inc
~" 90 THE uaitcr3 Yes, the matter.
WA, 80 fcols rs we mako OF ourselves about AT,
sue .,r Heaven did we get This taste Tor fr'"'n
- do YOU know that great zeal ino'o -
M naintings imported are by French "'u'''
"a mat they are snapped at Literally "H"o So,
anu ''a soiers who have twenty times more magma
'u carccly less technique, barely get one peSs''
oV" vearl What do you see at picture s'oie7
CV"''' ,,,rv 70 Decemberi French WORKS e'er
~, Either theatrical things ike 'ha' uoi'
~ those stupid interiors which are 80 n'".'ion'!
sinted that they 60 near 20 dlVe hi"u '"N " ''''
',.1 admiration. Once in a while thefc 0reeIs ia T"
- German ricturc-uO~e seldom stu az hhglSh ohe'
80 .,oowIedre that these shops wear inner ar 'nan
-, Tbev uscd 10 be not much more IMAM asSluiS lo'
,,el oils and insane water-eoioTs- uoiI'ouS eauDs
s,.h no,oiy wautcd But Why French work alone
WI" ,.,,,onalsmt Why not independence and orgi
,,,t And why have nj we critic VINO mas ~ ie"S'
"a, ~ what art IS and Of what ordinary rules OF
-, -ecuireq why -" Alas, poor man! Don
-, . an, American artist who does Mt sell MS pictures
I'm one Of the uptown shops that the DON Is
An aud he turns to look contemporary
=, that Rosa HOuheur on the wall bu' ic s'0".
smi.ble again when he faces sheelS''"o "
Var,oec khoven's-One OF those ihho'eh'' e'"9'
suupy bit, OF Already wherein perpe'uhlS
sbcDher, hoy doth pipe the hye-lonS Day anu sA' A
fr and all the year is May; and ne quite OoauS, "u
81 no., ,rho, he comes 70 those new pictures by Spltz
wig One. The Cavalier and the WITCH reeans VI.
dramatic atmosphere. On a yclowish-cray parapo'
~ r,ct, rrouches the muscular gypsy woman brown
o, loaf in Decembe~ and, beside her. her le!lhe
tr,il,r sts and swelis and curves an evu'oohhg 'a
. Wild black storm is sweeping over The precipce De
,,,s aud wasting the waves at It's base ana uP
from the shore comes the cavalier. fat groteSque NIUE
uncertain IN the knee and 5eaTlng-oh' RIDICULOUS An
,,h,l, The whole picture is ecric, I'LL OF wind and
storm. and wickedness. and the Don observes tIAt
"twn DO" The other pictures hy the same ARTIST also
ret = mid commentator. And certainly they are
charminriv done one shrine forest, with pretty
Gretchen hueelng before 81 the other an irresistible
seriocomi. figure OF an angler. The Don examines a
fine shrc-c,nc of Tschay1 and the new landscapes
and becomes quite respectfully good notured NO IN
terror, m Ere" he murmurs but here he catches
glimpse Of some French watorcolOrs. and gooms again.
sIegert- little maiden rather deepens him But she's
pretty little creature nevertheless who has syy taken
her novel from the drawer Of her workable. and Is
ncslecf'. long white scam in very naughty way
Mamma has dropped Der specaces and her knitting and
Iva. dclre 20 look after the kitchen and the freshfaced
little witch il making the best OF her absence. Two
pictures by Ncol A. T. a. Growl cOndesCends 10 ad-
n.rc III thc first Paddy Collecting his Thoughts
with k,ed brow and despairug eyes; in the other he
,, iu-t signing Yours TO Command" with rapt face
and pro.rudng tongue. Both pictures are desperately
realistic" the Don remarks. No greater contrast
could De- found 10 these than the picture which hangs
oppos..c. by Wilhelm Dicz 1t i that of a red
scrctei br-er sounding his morning call be
meath GREAT ragged tree. Beside him are
PACK If bunting dogs and horse whose alert and
sensitive show with what merry blast his master
wakes the wood In the open door Of the hunting lodge
leans sleepy housc-maidcn, dnd all seems 10 shift
and drt the gray mists Of carly dawn. The thing is
Cusp and inc. aud yet soft q dream.
d" B. coIt. ny dear Growl here are not many French
pf'a-.-"
WI. what otuJ" say the Don. Why aren't they
Ame..Iu3"