New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-13
FINE ARTS
FINE ARTS.
AUCTION SALE OF MODERN PA1NTlNGs-M.
KNOEDLER & co.

The collection of modern paintings belong
ing French, GerInn and Am erican schools wmch
is now on exhibition at the Kurtz Gallery, No b East
rwenty-thrdst Madisonsquare will be soia at auction
on Wednesday and Thursday evenings of this week April
ii and 49, These pictures well worth visit. and
their exhibition time with the annual exmbi-
ron of the Academy OF Design ia peculiarly oportune,
for to any interested in the study OF contemporary
att here in street are the means or com
paring the latest productions OF many OF our
best known American painters with those OF some
OF the foreign whose names are either familiar 10
s all or sure In no long time be Nor the pic
tre, in the Kneder Gallery such are accustomed
to see on walls Of auction rooms when picture dealers
decide 10 clear out their unstable and get the
field ready for now campaign. The Messrs hnndier
frankly tell public than the depressed condition OF the
picture market during the Last TWO years mas opiSeu
them to offer these pictures auction in order to reduce
their stock Everybody knows that the pictures selected
for this market by the house Of Goupu have always oeen
such as TO justify Its reputation Tor taste una
Judgment and among the many depressing signs OF the
stagnaton in trade which until very lately has weighed
mon our community hardly one is more telling to those
who know how largely rich merchants have been In
the habit of Investing in works OF art than the fact
that 40 many excellent and taking pictures as are mere
collected should remain unsold ut the close VI inc Dus
ness wear. The catalogue includes the name Of Corot
No. ILL., 1.-THE Dawn" picture which, seen IN not 700
brilliant artificial light or half bid under the coy ven oi
twilight will Justify itself those who find 1t dsappoint-
ing in the cold glare of this too well lighted gallery
Corors pictures so true to the atmosphere IN whch
thew were painted. under the gray skies OF Northern
France where and rain usurp the sun and banch
the snare grass and the trees that lead trembling
life ON this thin and chaky sOso true are Corots pie
nres 70 the conditions Of light under which they were
produced IL must always be impossible TO do them Jus
tice when they shown IN the fu ght OF al American
sav-tbe most trying light not only us women know, TO
The beauty OF human face but to the beauty OF paint
ing and OF sculpture Cesar de Cocks Landscape No.
80 a. with all its imitation OF Corots manner o
oood niece of painting. and part Of what Is sure
10 be- Sc down imitation by the spectator Is
the result Of the artists looking at the nature about nun
AZ directly and honestly COrot himself did For the
rest NJ de Cock has an independent reputation.
NJ Ernest Chesnean, In his Nations Hivaes dams rArt
says of him that knows the green and humid Nor
mandy better bring 1t more truly before
u.s. aud his pictures real masterpieces OF
light and air How true the present picture IL 10 the
scenery Parisl One who knows that scenery can
translate every incident this into the Language
of memory love. Other French names-for Cesar 40
Cock though u Belgian 10y birth Is. In his art french
uian Frolcuaen arc Kaii DaubiSny, promising sou