The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-01
ART MATTERS.
Mrs. Hazards Reception.

little doubt that the entertainment held as 1t will
be, among the best creations Of Mrs. Hazards
chisel, will be more purely an art celebration than
nine Of any len similar Affairs Those % who s desire
secretary, q Park row, and all vino de-
sire on the opening evening to subscribe
through the fundamentally Of Mr.. W. W. Niles.
Mrs. Hazards statuary includes "Abandonata,"
on verde de Genoa pedestal; LA Pace Gene,
rosa" also group OF three figures, Of Bed0nlla
marble, with pedestal OF rare Pavonazzo; LES
mer' and "Autumn," two single figures, executed
In Carrara; "Rusttc Felicity" two single figures,
with verde de Genoa pedeStals. and a medallion
portrait OF the Princess de PiemOnte, future Queen
Of Italy.
The pictures sold yesterday and Thursday at the
Art Gallery OF Edward schenck, 81 Liberty street,
realized the following prices:-
FIRST Days SALE. .f.
Fruit, 6; Caught by the tide, sls; Peaches, $ds;
Flowers Flo So; Companion, SIS; white Noun
T%ss ssens sls s III s asoss anss
Golden Gate, Harbor OF San Francisco, $27;
s Cape sgs fS
light, sos; Waiting Tor the Train, $62; Meal Time,
s Winter Eve @ LINDA n s,
s As!"i Street sAinsni ssS
harvest in Ulster County, $751; The Toy Dealer
Sll7 90; Autumn near Great Darlington, $40; The
Pets, $50; The Little HOusekeeper, 500; sunset ut
Nahant. $37 so; He Won't Hurt You, 500; Eyre
Farm House, SIS; View in Glen Ellis River,
seqos
at Cape Ann sS7 SO; Choice Fruit, s4S; old Home
stead, $40; Marine, $50; Hudson River, $14; Roses
shelter Inside sandy Hook, SIT; Marine, SIS;
tie In Snow storm, $47 SO; Marine, sal; Com
panion, $31.
Black and Tan, SIT; Sunset Marine, $33; Marine
TIcton .Isndjns SO; Have some, 500; caissi!i
hses cstsk s sufs es sas sses
sa rhs Fo%sr o9 G 81 co. Dogs s a. whss
SSsfrS%x, .. So; lda a., Mountain, VI, So;
sunset n the Alps, sssi The New Novel, sl21 50;
twilight, $50; Children at The Well, 500;
The Alhambra slio; Falstar mastering His
Recruits $780, IN. Valley ss
George, sIs7 so; St. Marks, Venice $3.50;
Early E y Morning saSo The young Mother 500;
$3.50; September Snow, Grafton, Me $3.50; A Case
OF Bribery, $3.50; Eglise st. Denis, Paris, the
D RIVER sss era @ ses
$41o; Evening on the Severn, $50; Morning
Sssss ssD ss TSs hd Ssnd S Ss 1ss
Apples, Goshen, n T., $3.50; The New Kite, $40;
&C.. $125 The Armorer $3.50; Kept in School,
$255; Bay OF Naples, 500; Lady and Parrot, $l65;
ae NeSr tbe or s
Fruit, $75 Landscape, $lo7 SO; The Wood Path,
ELI Elizabethtown: Adirondack, So; Flowers $50;
SIS; Lake IN the Austrian Tyrol, $25 Fruit and
Wine, SCI.
Foreign Art Sales.
Alma Tadema is engaged on several pictures, one
OF which may appear ut the approaching Royal
Academy Exhibition. The most important is I'm
ished, and represents the last effort to save the
life OF the rst-born Of the King OF Egypt from
the effects OF the warning given by Moses Tadema
has also three other pictures, styled respectively
"Greek Wine," "A Roman Dinner' and "The
Siesta.n
Mr.. Poynter mas completed the upper and larger
portion OF the fresco he has had In hand In st.
Stephens church, South Dulwich. The work is a
fine resco-a very rare thing in Great Britain.
The Earl OF Devon has accepted the post OF Presi-
dent of the Annual Congress Of the Royal Arch9o-
logical Institute be held in Exeter in the ensuing
Summer.
AT the latter part OF December died, at Toulon,
NJ. G. Il. vacher de TOurnemine. He was born at
Toulon in 1914, became pupil Of E. Isabey and made
his debut In the sal0n OF 1916. His pictures were
chiefly landscapes, and among his earlier works
were souvenirs OF excursions in Normandy and Brit
tany. At the beginning OF the Eastern war he went
TO Turkey and painted pictures Of Oriental themes
Among these "OlSeauX PecheurS ASie,n
..Famants ct Ibis" and "Ebats d'Oiseaux Pc
cheurs" Tournemine was c0nSeyUateuy-ddjOnt In
the Luxembourg.
Among the old Masters pictures now exhibiting
at the Royal Academy, London, one OF the most
worthy OF admiring comment Is Mr.. Fuller Matt
lands famous panel, ''Christ's Agony in the Gar
den," by Raphael. IL was painted about 1904, and
Is therefore Perugenesque. Christ kneels against
recline the sleeping Apostles. An angel descends
and presents the cup OF agony. Judas IS seen APP
preaching with armed men hills and town are IN
the distance. The work Is intensely pathetic, re-
markable Tor deicacy and completeness OF finish,
and powerful and rich in color
With respect to the fact that In the tablet IN the
background Of Albert Durers "Meancoa." the
figures from one 70 sixteen are 80 arranged as 10
produce total OF thirty-four, whereon the
bers, and that the same eject Is pro-
no. wr sas 10 Are a
remarks 1.-THE tablet, however, presents many
more Phenomena than these. II 1t De cut into tour
equal squares each square will yield thirty-iour.
gether give thirty-ioar. The four central figures
OF the tablet give thirty four And still further,
take any square OF nine figures that you will In the
tsoiet ana you VIII fnd that the corner figures in
SAID square yield also thirty-our. These facts, Oh
served Dy two friends and myself last evening
january 1l led To the further observation that the
placement OF the figures was made on the follow
ing principle The four highest and the four low
est figures OF the sixteen grouped In the form
OF the Masonic emblem OF the intersecting COM
passes while the Intermediate eight took the SHADE