The New York herald., 1876-02-27
FINE ARTS.

NEW COLLECTION OF PAINTINGS BY ADolPH
KoHN AT KURTzs GALLERY.
private view was gwen on Friday and Saturday Of
collection OF paintings numbering 142, which have
during past six months been collected by Adolpb
Kohh from the studios OF artists in Paris, Rome, &c
The principal picture in the collection is rhe Slave y
by Louis Lelor Moor seated among the cushions has
become partially unconscious from the fumes Of opium
from the nargileh beside him, the stem Of which is
wound in snake-like coils around his body His tur
banod head has fallen back and rests against the wall
ais thick lips parted in an diotie smile bis
have fallen the cushions each side and the
poweress hands half Open the holding the stem
has dropped II, and the other has loosened its grasp
from small flexible whip which still hangs from his
wrist AT his feet, on the bare floor sits young
white woman crouching over lutte on which
she plays, evidently expecting every moment
10 feel the whip OF her her bare shoulders
she Is turned partly from him, and still plays on
conscious that her tormenter has fallen asleep Near
this picture, which makes you wonder II such scenes
really exist in this civilized age is representing
sweet domestic scene merely two children asleep amid
white and delicate rosevined draperies The mother
has gently lifted the curtain which food OF
light 10 fall upon them with exquisite effect This by
Ernest Khateln, and Is called 'Tho Twins" A.
Zamacois which is guaranteed TO be genuine, is
called "rhe Violin Player" "La sentineie de
Louis XV." is a fair specimen Of the palette
in,as knife school i a OF painting oy Romaka ,c An
ing Home from Festival" represents group OF
children in village street "Snow Bells ''by Otto
tree with bundle tied up in old handkerchief and
a pitcher beside her and q bunch OF snow bells in
her hand "a Hunting Party, " by John Lewis Brown,
shows this artists skin in painting this class OF sub
jects Horses, dogs men and landscapes all good
the animals especially So. highly finished picture IS
the Golden Wedding OF one OF the Aedican Dukes.n
He s seated In his palace with his family and receiving
the congratulations OF the peasants An example
Of Aug. schenck is group Of sheep, hud
n a A rir lcPv
dead bird, with wise-looking cat showing its head
over the gate behind her is by August Lejeune. "The
Seaside" by Pecrus; ''An Alsacian Flower Girl by
Emile Pabst Louise" by Toulmouche; "Eug6nie,''
Astray in Forest" is small picture, full OF senii-
ment by Edouard Costar; interior, by Brlloun,
represents "A Book Pedler and the Learned Men Of
First Empire Promenadng," Is by Victor Tortez;
what the Flower Says" by Bonifazi con-
the Flock is by Brissot de Warville; aAn OK Team in
Normandy is by Van Marche, pupil OF Troyan who
Is worthy of his master. spanish scene by Cadina
You Buy Ny Brdsn by A. Moreau; italian Instruct
ing Her Daughter" by Schreiber; sheep" by
haas two portraits by Knaus, "a Sleeping Frar, by
Hillemacher; winter in the Black Forest, }" by Kaun-
man, and several examples OF Lasalle, Lejeune
L'Enfant do Nets, Goupil, Chavet Garcia Marcia
and Pascutt; water colors by Lambert, the famous
cat painter; Romako and Millet charcoal sketch by
Forsuny and pen and ink sketches by vbert Galore
Marchetti and Simonetti The pictures viii be ex-
hibn a at the kurtz Ara Gallery, Twenty third street
near Broadway and after Tuesday February 20 and
will be sold at auction about the 9Th OF March.
PICTURES EXHIBITED ~ ARTIST MEMBERS AT
THE LoTos CLUB RECEPTION LAST EVENING
Among the paintings exhibited at the Lotos Club last
evening were "Daybreak," powerful piece Of paint
Ing, but requiring very strong light; "a Group Of
Marsh Millows," as delicate in treatment "Day-
break" is strong, by Robert G. Minor; New York
Bay by Moonlight and a small marine" by Ed
MoraA; "Deer," by TAFT; "old Beauchurch " by Crop
sey; Westward the Star OF Empire Takes Its Way by
ColonelT Thorpe This picture represents an entirely
ned in American art showing the primitive forest
In the background with fields Of npening grain on the
land which has been cleared with the square log cabin
and all through the landscape. especially the fore
ground the trees which have been grded and burned
10 hasten decay seen with their branches stripped
from them. Colonel Thorpes early experience In the
backwoods has enabled HIM TO produce scene which
have "gone West" and a few of the din.
culiies which have to be encountered in
for exhibition at the Centennial and is OF the class OF
subjects which should be represented by our artists at
that exhibition, as 1t represents American progress
photograph taken in New York In 1861 gives portrait
Of Charles Elliot the portrait painter and Colonel
Thorpe, seated at table earnest conversation They
were classmates in studying art and In the habit
Of ecurng another, the action the figures is
Immediately recognized by their c0nfrere& A
copy Of this photograph is in gallery in
Atheneum- "Reminiscences" is the title
A hunting Is by Joseph Beard; an autumn
scene by William Hart; salt Meadows' and Long
Island Road, by Charles Miller; ''Sunset" by J. Ly-
man; hut on the seashore, with three fishermen
mending net, and The Antiquarian" by J. H.
Dolph; page" by Percival de Luce 'Contempa-
ton," by George shory, representing two young
women looking from a mountain over the valley be-
meath them; THE Last VISIT" by Henry Bacon and
pretty little figure by b. Inman; ''Romola by
Bush. On an easal Is portrait draped in black, Of
Charlotte Cushman But few works in clay are ex-
hibted Among them are "The Town Pump and
MAIL Day, by Rogers