New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-11-07

trpnV A STAFF CORRESPONDENT OF IHG IEiHINE'I
p,,,, ,nrrpUIA. Nov. 4.-Nr. Frederick
,I.ht,,Is :NIdsummcr Moon" has had the good for
- IN be one OF favorite pictures IN the Centennial
htiop and well deserves its fortune. IL is delight
- connection I'm its play OF line and easy balance OF
u and leaves Oh the mind sense OF satisfaction In
a., more material rcsut-drawin- color, composition
- t.t artists call "the picture " in short, without
b # any, reference % the subject properly speak
a., rtfsi the only idea' subject In the modern In
a,,5 Poom n the visitor win look about hm he VIII
s1tat the English paint for world that looks d the
-, erst M all and is less concerned with the paint
+,,p with how the story is told how the likeness
+i,as how the scenery is reported We ID
A.rra are fully in sympathy with this view
81 hence we find the English pictures very
,l IN our mind though perhaps If the French ana
mons had sent their best works IN the same fields OF
-, r,rtr,it aud landscape We might from knowing
- M fer have been better pleased with them than we
go NTH orr own Kin. Mr.. leighton, however, 10 return
. him for moment is as rule subject painter Ike
to rest and rarely does anything that gives as much
l,sire 10 painter as this Midsummer Moon He is
so IN more usual frame OF mind in his Interior 81
tf LEWIS House Damascus" which also is lovely piece
fvork and quite healthy and happy in ls loneliness
fe from the morbid faint which, as wchave complained
obovc has seized many Of the best ENGLISH
men Of to-day, and Mr. Leighton among them
We wish, however, we could nave seen INC
c fin some one Of his larger compositions, such an one,
for instance as his County Paris finding Juliet Dead
which Mrs Kemblc put us al under obligations 10
l- by sending to an exhibition Of our Academy of De
sign That beautiful picture-bcautiful in conpo'iioh'
an cor I'm seutimen-was one Of the few Illustrations TO
Tie tragedy Of Shakespeare that have been made by
Iorlslen There is another fine worl, by leighton in
Philadelphia in the gallery of the late Mr. HARRISON
The Reconciliation Of the Moutagucs and C'puots over
lie bodies Of Romeo and Juliet which We wish might
have been borrowed 10 make painter highly priced 40
home better known to ourselves.
Neither Mr. Nilais nor SIR Holman Hunt gives much
Measure by his contributions 10 our Exhibition Mr.
liant can he better studied in NewIor5 i'm his Has.
Pot in Mr. john Taylor Johnstons colecto" at me
METROPOLITAN Museum than in tins hard luid affected
PORTRAIT of Himself" 10 Is Of course interesting be-
c.use 10 is the portrait OF man who occupies singular
,Iace I'm the ar-yorld Of dayone of the few mon
who not only make their art instrument OF distinct
moral or 10 coin q compound, tncoio-ic-scontiuc
tacpe bat who do +. I'm such way 90 compel people
IN hear what they have TO say All Mr. Hunts pictures
are not busted with Jerusalem, the jews, and the
Mystic Christ, but all lis most important pictures
are, and he is so dead in earnest and
sees So intensely what he secs, that his pictures have
meaning even 10 those 20 whom his ideas are strange
To painter his work has hardly any interest at an and
Ia sensitive eye his color is the most dl'acieeabe OF
eypericnces His Portrait here with It's Alterations OF
dress and The striped garment the same IN when ms
Christ i'm the famous Christ in the Temple" is clad
the square palette with handle which seems to be
revived ont Of nero snguarty, is certainly put for
ward in very challenging way. The attitude too is
strained and awkward and chosen, one may tAnK' 20
show the artists skill IN dealing win I-e
torneuted joints and muscles OF the mana on
which the mans whole weight is thrown However,
ttis were done easily, and Il the color Of the picture
were NOT such cruelty the artist should not Doe blamed
liking 10 show OF his * th.tls what Artists have
ban don. ever since there were artists But ile th'.l
with which the picture "a painted, the hard LABOR ana
dry toll implied, make an impression Us unco"i'ri''e '
the color and we wish for the artists sake hat MS great
1Yri triumph might have been repeated here ia the
exhibition Of his Christ i'm the Temple picture seem
rer69ps. by more people than any other painted la
,u,lerp times ana that has made the artists name
household word I'm thousands Of English homes.
Mr. Nnlais's Early Days besides that it's ana'"np
10 meet Sir Joshua Reynolds on his own ground with if-
rauat Of battle far weak is in itself picture tor
below the modern artists distinguished powers IL is
plined with considerable skill, for 5lais rarely paints
picture an over poor but there's not enough M 20 have
s1ycu work by an inferior artist aud there is less Than
even Nr llas afford to put into picture That shall
be sent 10 represent him 40 Worlds Fair Tie best part
OF The picture is the chds dress and The worst is tie
kren the little holds IN her lap; hut between the
two degrees Of best and worst IS the chilts face,
the field on which Sir Joshua would have expended al
lis strength as every master before or since his time
Ia, done This specimen of Nillas's work is another
illustration Of tie fact That IN the difficulty the English
Committee met I'm cOerting pictures for the Exhibition,
gallery does not represent their pleasure but the
pleasure Of owners aud the possibilities OF borrowers.
sdl IL remains. That many of the foremost men in pop.
uar esteem iu England not represented fairly by
their pictures here, ana 30 would have been better ."
have omitted Ml'as and Holman Huat, and several
others altogether rather than show them 20 Us piece
meal, and by thrl-ratc performances
Il cannot be said that M. Ahna-Tddeua is not 90 be
fairly known by his pictures and drawings IN the Tx
hbitiOn No other Of mark - so fully shown. We
have here three pictures from his handoue Of them,
"The Vintage Festival" important picture as he has
yet painted "The Mummy is the least mtcres Ing Of
the three OH paintings, bat 10 is sure % delight the
archaolo-ists who here see a phase OF late Egyptian
manners painted with the most careful attention TO
detail and as much life put into the detail ~ could DE
looked for from modern. The subject IL. we believe,
the mOumers chanting and making music absut the
newly dead Tie "COuvaesCeucc j scene IN INC
atun Of Roman house, where young girl is enjoying
the light and sweetness Of flowers after 10
Illness. Parts OF this picture painted with more
feeling than is usual with this arust-we may
mention particularly the terminal bust Of q woman 40
the right hand with wreath Of flowers about the neck
There much very neat and de tcTcus PAINTING IN thi
picture hut the bust and The wreath OF flowers what
Utmost plcascs MS 10 dwcon 1.-THE Vintage Festival"
wen known by Bl3uch1rj5 beautiful engraving OF IT, is
AmaTadcma's capital work. ard certainly in MS
way, no artist know Of could deal go learnedy, 40
tlstefuily with the materials, PIT much genuine
DE into tho Illustration Of past time as hc artist BIAS
done here lie has Oh the learning OF Gfrouc,
Mcissoncr, Holman Hunt or Leighton bu leighton
excepted, Of these put much humanity i.to
Dis pictures az Alma-Tadcma can. Nor have we amy /
right 20 blame the artist for his oycruucb archaeology
since n this DC merely serves his time ana makes himself
part Of his time. Our art IKE thcator7 insists ou
thus mantyng The letter az the expense of the -nr
ana 70 the death Of the spirit and the men who run
counter TO their time I'm this must reckon with NEGLECT
and even contempt, and expect 70 be sought and
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