New-York tribune., 1873-03-19
FINE ARTS.
THE PALETTE EXHIBITION.

II The Somerville Gallery is filed to its utmost
capacity by the pictures and sketches comprised in the
II second annual exhibition Of tho Pal" .e" The show
II peculiarly interesting account OF its unusual
variety. There excellent works in Landscape
genre portrature and side by side with these hang
photographs, erayons pen and ink drawings, and al
Least OF elaborate and very successful carca
tmes The show this year is rendered much more attract
i've sy the add uon OF number OF pictures by artists OF
European ceebrty such Rosa BOnheur, August Bon
beur DauOgny, Guillemet, Webb, Bakaowcz, van
MareKee Navone C0urbet, and Caraud, and by q small
but valuable collection OF works contributed by artists
resident In Rome which 10 b sold for the benefit oil
the American Protestant Episcopal Church OF ST.
Paul which is building in the salian capital one OF
the first and most striking manifestations OF the new
reign Of liberation which came in with Victor Emanuel
The contributing artists are Charles Temple Dix J. o. b.
Inman, Luther Terry ID. NJ. Armstrong, Prince Won
Solms, Mary Z. Williams. william Graham George
Inness Mr. T1ltOn, c. c. Coleman, W1n. H. Haseitlne'
Abby o. Williams F. C. Welsh Elihu Vedder. W. II.
Rinehart, and George smmonds. These pictures.
together with such Of the Palette pictures as remain
unsod will be sold auction on Thursday and FRIDAY
evenings, March 20 and 81.
picture draped with Grape recalls the short history
and extnguished promise Of Col. Charles Temple DIX
II is called "The Phantom Ship (No. 1D in a short
chopping sea- an oldfashoned manofwar is numbering
along and lust across bows floats the Flying Dutch
man, vague and spectral craft scarcely more substan
tial than the foam A view Of Capri represents Col
Dix in different and more usual character one OF tho
largest pictures there by George Inness No S2 us
better than its name, "The New Jerusalem" 1t IS
broad and sunny landscape, spacious and broken Dy
pleasant hills and streams with suggestive walls and
towers in the distance. But it might well be called
Arcadia the Land Of Cockayne what the artist mas
named IT, Near il is head OF John Brown by MT Bar
ling which not only good portrait but strong ana
fine picture painted with skill and genuine feeling. MI
VIaaI yaah
AL 1t is one Of those unreal exquisite faces which ne
paints better than anybody, women without any souls
or any perceptions except for beauty and for pleasure
on back grounds OF unreal light and impossible nowes SET
I'm frames which make you dream. q. Hetzel mas %
Study In Wood (No 3s which Is full Of Wddeinsd"Hen'
as Emerson would A sweet and touching httie
genre picture called Faith" No. 4 is by Boughton
young GIRL not past childhood kneels in the snow by
shrine and waits for help in her misery Mr. Holberons
bird and game pieces careful and satisfactory MT
Felipe Gutierrez has two creditable works. " KUN
and an Italian Woman" which show a good deal OF
perception OF character and skill OF drawing though
they are not without certain orudeness or color winch
seems general among the SpanishAmerican artists we
have met Mr. E. H. May has "Greek Slave" mo. lO2)
well drawn and luxuriously colored There is small
and unpretending sketch by W NJ Cary No 1897 called
"On tho Prairies" which s full Of merit. In dull
twilight herd OF buffalo is seen moving over the fahs;
in the foreground there Is group OF coyotes NO !s
strong and fortunate portrait OF Justice Nelson Of the
supreme Court, by Carl L. Brandt. Mrs Murray teiis
The Old story il is told in Spain NO 1851 Ihere Is
n clever portrait in crayOn by lie Vasseur NO lbo anu
two dramatic pictures by MI Sarony representing e'
Lucca and Miss Davenport In favorite parts ,,-.,.
The caricatures worth looking at. Mr. ,Wuests
sketches Of the Palette Council are inmilaDe III force
and humor When we see such undenable excellence
IN carcature as this we but wonder at the pec
mems we see every week in print Mr. Helers Loulsi-
ana Gentry may also be ranked amOngthe carcatures.
The satire of 1t is bitter than humorous Ihe same
artist has a spirited water color OF Page and farrO
0uet in which the Pages face ia as young and iupndeh
as it could well be made. Mr George b. Ber nas one
of his best Dogs heads (NO 20l) Mr. j. H. Beard DIS
usual og-and-rat comedy; and We cannot OF course
close without calling attention to the mastery
sketch of COurbet of a nude figure asleep
full of coarse and insOent energy and skill IL 10 ne
regretted that the pressure OF time pre- preVetsrn at en-
few weeks longer his admirable collection OF pn4to-
rphs destined the Vienna Exposition 80 that they
might have added their attraction u the Palette "
show Whatever may do In other departments OF
arr i'm the Austrian Worlds Fair we need not rear COM
parison i'm photography with any other country Even
Fritz Lnckhard and the HofFotografn Frauen Adele
ground when Mr.. Kurtzs admirable work Is exhibited