New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-03-24
TIRE BoRRoRs OF THE CAPITOL.
AN APPROPRIATE PuNIsHMENT-THE NEW PERRY
PICrURE-THE FARRAGUT MODELS
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AN lpppoppIATF PuNIsHMENT-THE NEW PERRY
pICTIIRE-THE FARRAGUT MoDELs.
70 me BdttOr OF The Trto'he.
S,R: The pleasant satire of South Bend ana
North Easton is truly charming. The consciousness OF
an almost infane of motive, and OF guile
hess and fareachng devotion TO the best interests OF
ones friends II must indeed be delight to feel but
upon those Christian statesmen TO whom Credit Mooher
was sweet and acceptable might be bestowed reward
much fitting. Some of them ] would tie nrmiy 10
stakes in the Capitol corridor, opposite the painting
Of Perry on Lake Erie, and others i would
put in cages asouud Miss " Rcams soulstrring statue
Of Lincoln. There would leave them for the rest OF
their lives slowly TO CONCEAL with the horror oil those
visions An occasional chloroformng with The Congress
.ona Globe would enable them TO bear the agony iof
time but would soon be over. As by ART they nNcu
90 by art should they die, which would he particularly
agreeable ending that melodramatc gentleman VINO
observed during discussion that caiumny anu
censire were OF no consequence 10 him personally! oe
cause the grave yawned for him anyway. II m"'teis
not for mesef" he touchngy remarked, hut 'nA VI
noe widow and the Boy that bears me name
From the frescoed ballet girls, who gamooi III an en-
tireIy easy and uuceremOuOus manner "fou"u t"o V"
faced Washington IN the DOME down TO lhe
b old Indian I'm the Marble Room, aud the NIUE cur ."
,he ,o,n s brow the art OF the Capitol Is OF nature
"a sstonsh and terrify. Most sublime IN daOolc"' Il"
,enuity is the Perry picture II ia very DIS oo
lnafon and concentration Of every bad point III every
rs,or Usllut me ever seen III TINS VI any NN'''
There is the lake botched with very red blood Ihere
Nv. some itnpossible ships al either side There is
hoaoad OF ridiculous persons, with Perry IN inc cen'oI
staring with an bis might at nothing IN particular Oho
diving man. hdeOusly CHASTITY sinks back INTO the waves
ana an equally hide0us corpse lies ON hoaunS
,ar Tie anatomy every body in the picture is almost
Grand IN It's audaclous absurdlty and IN frenzy OF
o,ginsIitv the artist borrowed his esh-coOrS from
,utcbers STALL Not being tied 10 any of those foolish
and unnecessary rules Nature Art, and Science when
govern smaller souls, De has easily succeeded III ms
glorious mission Of crOwding more mistakes INTO QUO
picture than amy other living artist Not one among the
wondering cazers has yet found ont which the bow OF
lis shin and which He has revealed unknown
muscles and undiscovered bumps and hoows in the
lnma frame which characterize him the most inagi-
native painter OF his time. He has made ms cannon
balls drop into the water if they were sent down IN
perpendicular line from the clouds. Like Garilck' when
h,s genus gels tired talent ON run, and
when hs talent exhausted his genus bounces in ana
halls 10 nothing. As specimen OF the most elevated
manner Of purc American impotence and Congressman
ignorance the picture Invaluable As decoration OF
tie Capitol ia is most toerabe, and not to be endured
WHY n should have cost $4,000 il is snare TO the in
t.lsc 10 consider Why should Congress wish 70 lnh'ct
misery on the race for the sake Of one man
"I', human natur'. p'raps,-it 81,
th. ISN'T human natlu low
san more emotional insanity AIT is displayed IN
sort of graveyard on the lower floor Here are the
out exception the ludicous failures OF unheard-o stone
cutters Somebody named Turin illustrates his capac
ties by an admiral, which i, pleasant combination OF
poet aud Peck~uif and another somebody. called
Pickett Turns his subject into godlaced clergyman OF
a nouruful and sauctimonious aspect, who holds his
glass gugcry his waist with one hand, and appears
to be contemplating doUhttuly the future prospects OF
al other Christians. c. L. O,tuer presents pedestal
down which two dOlphns wigge, and at whose
base stands Fat Boy in the act Of howng On the top
stands pompous and raScibe Farragu Of the fine Old
iradonaIy sort, who apparently shouting strong IAN
euage at the noisy Fat Boy J. Drsner another unknown
lgjnc e. thing bose most striking point Is Brow ana
which NAV hc truly said be 10 ITS foes M
Fiskc Mills sends figure Of a gloomy and muscular
policeman standing 10y park fence and playfuly labeled
Farra gut" for this occasion only. Another Mills grinds
out a chubby and cherubic creature who grasps ms
swoid and points into the distance I'm the extremely
iBane fashion when IT is well known all naval
commanders adopt on important occasions. The
models Of Rogers and MacdOnad-both dashed 10 the
mast-are rather better than the Others having some
thing spirited and enthusiastic action, but they nave
not among other lacks dignity that anything larger
than statuete requires. Nj. Ezekiel is represented
work which looks as Inuch Ike unhappy Feejee
~ II does like Farragut Miss Ream's was the only
large model presented IL nODly sustains the lcpua-
lion Of the artist. 1t is the figure Of respectable
cid imbecile. with Imuch hie soul, verye,
spirit about him as tobaocOnis Any pasterer
might mold "a hundred Of him IN year
and never feel IT. II is consolation TO know that
though needing sorry vote 10 gain the commits
SION MIS- Rea did lose il with the rest Of the image
vendors That she came within vote Of getting Is
sncout comment upon the critical taste OF Congress
men Possibly the next session will accepted, and
81 The Capitol be turned into an asylum for incura-
de iguoramuses and appropriations be made fund
for HE benefit OF novices it viii do quite as well as
The lowest depths OF cutting and daubng have been
reached than the Perry picture at least have
nothing worse. Yours, H. N
Washington, March Q, 1873