New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-02-10
FINE ARTS.
SALE OF wATER-COLOR DRAWINGS.

If the New-York public does not come TO
take an interest water-cOor drawings 1t will not DO
for lack opportunity to good ones Hardly Is tho
Exhibition Of our young and thriving Society Of Amer
can Painters In WaterColOrs fairly opened, Deioro
Messrs Knoedler Co. announce sale OF watercoorS'
mostly by foreign artists though there are several ~
our own men, There has been some anxiety expressed
lest this second exhibition in some way interfere
with the success of the principal dsPaybut We are Tar
from sharing IN such apprehension On the contrary
will be ofconsiderable advantage both 70 tno
public and to the artists. Although our own society
in which need hardly we take great interest
has shown its usual hospitality to artists OF all schools
and all natouates yet its Exhibition is naturally made
up principally Of American works. With tho exception
OF Mrs. stlman's mastery portrait aud Viilegass re-
markable Elstern subject there Is 10 important work
from any foreigner In the KnOedler collection on the
other hand all but very few OF the pieces are oy
Italians and Frenchmen, and the only important Ameri
can contributions are by Mr.. VIM. T. Richards.
The collection though stDanumbsring only 49, draw
ings--contains many choice pieces, and az whole
is well worth looking at with some attention We
have been particularly Interested In the landscape
sketches by Hersen, G. Flosa Lessore, p Martin.
and A. Campranial very different, and yet with some
how q common root, both in their way Of looking az
nature their way Of noting down their observe
ton. Camprani is not particularly well represented
but We call attention TO his name as OF an
artist sure 20 be hoard OF ono day. g. Filosa'5
rendering of what passes for woodland scenery
about Rome is direct and fresh that one renews
tho respect he felt for Nature when he
found what undergraduates she produce without
grass or trees. Campriani and Flosa belong TO the
new Italian school, and their subjects are found In
Italian scenery. Hersen, Lessore. and Martin are
French and character of French landscape about
Paris aud the eetOse district Is most faithfully.
feengly given In these slight sketches T. Martins
work is not at all French In Character
In I'D MI
these Free blotted momentary bits Of reminsceo by
Hersen and the others judge bybut they are no less
true to French nature they We know nothing Of
Martin. He painting these sketches six years ago
in Paris and the spot was easy to prove his faith
ulness but IL he has produced moro finished works We
have not them. These sketches all begun and
ended the open air, and great part Of their charm
consists In this freedom from the trsmmels OF
the studio. Tho visitor to this collection viii
find many drawings perhaps that will seem
to him more worthy OF notice than those
we have singled out. We have mentioned
because their very slightness-though showing
the individual and trained hand and eye-may cause
them to be overlooked We too fond OF what We call
1nish and fond Of prettiness, and 1t must be
that watercoOr lends itself moro easily to these
ways Of pleasing than TO holder and more artistic
preston Those who finish will find 1t in VIM. 4.
Richards OF whom there here some excellent
examples, and notably in Eugene KIinisch.
whose miniatures vellum Will DO easily
wondered at. The English school OF Row
botham and Dibdin is here, in pieces good enough
to serve samples, and the SpanishIta
ian school BY Jimenez Fortuuy, Zamacois simoaett.
Perata, Agrasot Ross Marohetti. Indoni. Dett, ana
the rest arc represented by clever examples. Tie
Exhibition, which Is free to the public. opens to-day
and will remain open day and evening until Monday
Tuesday, Feb. IS and 49, when the pictures WILL DO
sold at auction by Mr. R. somerville.