The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-22
FOREIGN ART NOTES.

A. w. Hunt Is engaged upon two pictures land
scapes, OF unusual Importance. The larger work
has for its subject OF the recesses Noel Sa-
bod. The other picture represents wooded
ravine, with an old bridge and long valley be
yond, with SnOwd0n at the end OF 1t. The same
artist Is also engaged on several watercolor draw
ings.
Alma Tadema has received from Queen Victoria
letters Of denization, which confer rights SINH
lar to those OF naturalization. He has
picture in hand which represents Q dam
sci lying on the pavement Of large Ro-
man hail. NEAR the base Of huge marble column,
watching goldfish swimming in a fountains basin.
Mr.. Leighton, who win not this season contribute
to the exhibition Of the Royal Academy painting
a charming picture entitled "A Jugger." 1t con-
tans the nude figure OF maiden performing in an
ancient Spanish garden. The chief OF Mr.. Leigh
toms studies at present January 49, is the design
for of the large unettes each forty feet at the
Chords which are to be painted on the wall Of the
openings Of the south court. South Kensington
Museum, London.
The novelties OF the exhibition OF old masters, at
the Burlington House, are IN the octagon gallery
and vestlbule, collection OF sculpture by English
masters counting Roubiliac for On Englishman),
and In gallery No 10 of the building collection Of
125 water-coor pieces, chiefly by the fathers of the
English school, The collection of sculpture Is frag-
mentary, and better assemblage Of water-colors
has been seen at the Burlington Club, In Savine
row. The Pau Mall acknowledges that the show,
as whole, Is magnificent and notable.
M. POynter's fresco Is finished. He Is now pre-.
pairing, as q companion to "Perseus and Andro-
media" representation, in medieval spirit. of a
fight with q dragon, the subject probably being the
battle with the Dragon OF Wantley.
"Wili-O'-the- Wisp,, '"The Lady OF Shalotn and
several portraits have been engaging the attention
Mr.. A. Goodwin has been painting a large view
OF Venice, In bright sunrise effect, taken from an
Henri Joseph Forester died towards the end of
last December. He was born in st. Domingo in
l7s7 attended, In 1910, the studies OF Vincent and
the grand prix OF 1873
At recent sale January 1s) in Brussels, of
prices were ized:-Rosa Bonheur's "Le
venaison,n 1880 francs; A. schener's MAR
"Plage a Ia Marco MOntante," $500 francs; M.
Bischop's ia Premiere Lettre GLAMOUR" 4,4OO
francs; n. T. W iS Les ,, Trois Ages" 1000
1890 francs M. Verschnur's Lies Apprets du De-
part" 1850 francs: NJ. Guillemin's la Partie de
A nearly complete collection OF the works, sew
eral hundred in number OF John Phillip will probably
be displayed at the next London information Exhl-
finer works Of Creswick.
Next April General Scott will succeed as Secre-
u
20 manage the London International Exhibition.
At the Louvre, in the hall occupied by the So
Important objects dating from the most ancient
epoch Of Greek art TO the time OF Perices includ-
ing the bas-reieis Of the architrave Of the
Miller in the island OF Thas0s; the fragments OF the
fricze and metopes OF the ParthenOn, acquired by
the Count de Choiseul-G oufier. and the funeral
vases found at Marathon. The grand entree of the
Museum In the Pavilion Demon Is to contain the
Tuieries brOnzes. Changes are making in the
n ia riN
J. b. A. Lebas the eminent French engineer,
who placed the obelisk OF Luxor In the Place de la
pupil OF the Ecoe P0lytechnique, and in 1S49 pub
lshed an important memoir, with plates, entitled,
"L'Obelisgue de Louqsor, Historic de 50 Transla-
sgnor De Rossi, the celebrated Roman anti.
quarry has begun the publication Of great work
on the Christian mosaics of Rome.
Before the expiration OF 1873 M. Schliemann will
publish. illustrated by 200 photographs Of objects
Troad.
The Gazette des Bea,r Arts for January includes
the commencement OF q series OF articles on Floren
tine engraving OF the fifteenth century
AT the last meeting OF the Photographic Society
o. London .srS paper paper was read BY Mr. Edward
The object OF the paper was to show how
alblmen prints fixed in hyposulphite Of soda
plain upon chemical principles why abumen prints
so fixed are permanent: No change whatever,
Mr.. Gayer said Is requisite in the usual mode OF
toning the albumen print; the only change is In
the mode OF using the hypO-bath, which is as fol-
| lows:-Dissolve one ounce o hypOsulphite OF soda
bath, and having taken it into the dark room,
immense In 1t one print, not moro than eight
inches square, for ten minutes or at most quarter
of an hour; then take the print out and rinse 1t
| two waters for a few minutes before removing It
from the dark room; afterwards let 1t receive the
| ton being performed In the daylight. The hypo-
solution Is now thrown away, as 1t Ia quite
to Mr.. Gayer's Statement. after ten wears, ex
perience OF this process Ii India, prints treated
| above described have always remained unaltered
and fresh looking, while those treated in the Ordi-
nary way have faded sooner or later. Each print
requires separate hypo-bath and 1t is also essen
and first washings should be done in the dark ROOM
1t IL also necessary that the size OF the print should
DE i IN proportion =, to the quantity Of hypssuphte
soda In eight ounces OF water Is the proper strength
OF solutions and this quantity will suffice only for
allowed to remain in the solution for more than
| quarter OF an hour at the most. The temperature
| OF the bath Is also matter Of some Importance
| the best temperature being from sixty degrees
Fahrenheit to eighty degrees Fahrenheit.
The seventy pictures ieft by George Mason are
| more than twenty are complete works. The COL
| lection includes comparatively early pictures and
studies made in Italy and more purely idiosyn-
cratic paintings OF English themes, marked by high
artistic inspiration and great power OF execution.
ing the Moor" .The Gander Giri Driving Geese. ),
| "Return from Ploughing" and "The Harvest Moon.n
The AthenGum well says:-"To poetic inspiration
Of color, and, what Is extremely rare in this
| country, tone. His extraordinary powers
| were devoted to subjects usually homely,
| ment OF his taste was peculiarly conspicuous
| In the simplest and apparently most trivial and
| natural subjects barren common, the skirts OF
| wood OF spindling trees, slopng harvest field
at sunset, garden with linen hanging to dry, q
! group OF country girls returning IRON milking and
| caught In spring storm, the gathering OF black
berries, mist on moor, girl driving geese and a
! score not more ambitious themes were exalted by
| his art, never weakened by false pathos. In his
feeling for his SUBJECTS as in his technical treat
ment or them, there was unfailing harmony of
sentiment, not sentimenaity; grace and beauty,
never beauty made apparent Tor It's own sake.
Harmony, which old-fashioned people call keeping,
/ obtained everywhere in Mason's works. his
power OF grading In perfection all the elements OF
his design was, perhaps the strongest proof Of his
geniusn