New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-08-26

and with terror both at the Imagined DANGER ana
at the furious charge the cat makes nsohe cupboard
after the enemy
Alexis Korzoochin's SUNDAY Tea-Party" belongs TO
the order Of picture as those we oeeh
aminng but deserves Its praise as quiet bit OF
realism in the painting Of manners The subject Is not,
properly speaking, TeaPary, but simply the Sunday
evening tcatlrinking elderly peasantcouple Inc
shining tnkes of seldom-used china, the polished copper
waterurn are well enough, though coarseiy paihted
dixie every picture in the Russian room excepting ohiy
those by GermskD, and all the details are given WIN
hoely faithfness in way to make US feel tat we are
really looking at bit actual life. not mt madeup
scene The wife leans with both on the table and
waits with COW like good nature stamped on her nat
Tartar face while her husband with pair OF nippers
cracks into small pieces the Jumps OF sugar
broken from the loaf which stands beside MN
on the floor The only value of pictures OF TINS Sor'
Is I'm the of the report they make OF ways
of life different from our own; they are illustrations 10
the Tour dn Monde" There is 10 beauty In theni' anu
there 4, nothing artistic nor even anything mechanically
skif In the drawing or In the manaSemcint y, yn
paint all the praise dine them sheu up neope look
under and such conditions Inc pest Oh he po,
hers dassSed above and those KorzoOch
In LamOch. and Becker. There are two IRE sze s.u
onbcct only borse and nothing more but showing
considerable skill in the painting: lnere hiob cur
Dusty remind US Of own Huntinstons fo ,heir
meis, and Leutzes in their pretension ana tn',a
Inconvenience The Festival In the Coonna Palace Is
ia Of the sae school the Republican Court OF me
ess important Portrait group In our VIEW. ph.ort
Exhibition (National Academy or the Amy hoo8a,, j
&C. competitions in which everybody IS posing anu
posing in the unreal fashion. Win no other ,,
Than to make picturesque ableau Wndt ,tdns aS
does on a grandiose scale with sumpthqus color ana
fantastic details these artists do ~ ,i
Makart in the power make or swallow inc. aosru,
ties of conception and grouping and In the sense o,
color but fully his equals In the power 70 De re
I'm Lack of earnestnoss The LAZY In the present plc.e
who IL pretending dance and who goes clahlpsrpl'
umperdy Ike spaniel RiEg and me inquire out 81 ~
FEN 30 49, might be offered types OF this sort OF
historical seene-paintlng. where Rn,cei ,mnro1a
bio scenes in ~ impossible way. No 90;
"a Family Party the Balcony looks 10 u ~
were painted by the same hand though me c,ta9sie
gives IL artist with different inas ~ " Nv ,, "a,
simon de ssirmunt of Brnds italy There IS however,
80 much similarity between these pictures anu ~ 80,
waY OF ookng M thnss that impossible there should
not connection between the l'.nlers o. sne,
fThe Tepfeyilim of q Roman Bath by Theodore Bronni-
kon painted at Rome betrnys the lnnlence Oh 1ieye
ana perhaps OF COonans but while these artists SNOW
n blsyirl faney ana way OF concelvlng the
domestic lie OF the Romans which maxi. az, hn
amusing variety in the archaeological mama OF tht
tine Mr.. BrounikoG, Oh the contrary, Is not az hil
anxious about his probabilities ahh i's ~ iInvS ,d
one which gives him excuse 10 paint nudites anu ne
has accordingly painted many "a he could cIoNu INTO
nodesty, has painted ono o hs ladies' fuly clothed IA
garments. but AS she Is sitting IL steam PAN we
OF tho very few pictures IN the Russian DEPART
ment that shows marked foreign II Hlehce.
Tne chief interest of the collection Is IN the
EVIDENCE il gives Of independent study IN the Russian
studios and OF tendency among Russian artists 10 paint
Mn. munncrs customs aud scenery Of their own country
rher than tD look about for foreign subjects Ihe only
exception 10 this on the part OF any art!St OF abHly
seen I'm the subjects from! modern Italian He CHOSEN ny
Alexander Gernlsi Of WARSAW, whose two pictures n
Tavern" and - Game at MORO" are badly hung
facing lie -ut and high up-Dut are evidently in-
portant pieces, whether considered az painting OF
MS studies Of life The Came at MorrO seems
IN Inc the better of the two but perhaps that "a only
because II is the better hung Only two andssapes IN
tic collection seem deserving Of especial notce
Iriius Cl.yrr', The First snow u Plnw"d Field, n
strong study with fresh earnest feeling for nature ana
Ice DRIFT on the NeyH," by Alexis DVSoooloB which
for all that IL was painted nj Paris, has nothing tItnch
abont It, either IN sentiment or III execution. IL - u
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