New-York tribune., 1878-05-27

house, in the balcony overlooking the cananot one
German painter Of this subject having so far as We
know made independent attempt 10 imagine how
Otheo would really look when telling his story nor how
tho LADY her father would behave but one ard NIL
agreed that not life and reality but the stage and its
tricks and maDncrs were the models TO be followed IL
to be denied tGs cOmpl with convention
and tradition is agreeable to great many people and
those who don't object to seeing once more Othelos
negro profile and wOoy head in silhouette against the
sky, his left thrust energetically out rs II to ind
cate the precise haunt OF the antbropophagi;
Brabant0 an urbane old gentleman in the red dressing
gown and beard the perOd too well bred to show any
surprise suspicion at his guests Munchausen
tales, and DesdcmOna clingng to her fathers BOSOM,
quite thrown of her balance by her ignorance OF
what an anthropophngi is aud her dread OF what II
may prove be-heae and the customary staGe-prop-
erty Of a gilt pastebcard ever and two gobets OF
the same-whoeyer, say, wishes to see these
familiar elements combined in picture, and
done well is necessary, Will take pleasure Ia Mr.
SimOnsOns performance.
A short time ago Mr.. Eastman johnson painted r very
pretty picture OF some children seated on beam in a
barn. little babygrl II remember rightly between
two baby-bCys, and tho charming dyl-s parody on the
lOve-makiug OF the butterflies and sparrOws-was So
successful that the artist has repeated the experiment
leaving the lOye-making and the infane element ont
and substituting for the cherbs in pnafOres and bits OF
trousers OF prOsac girls and boys, doing nothing
but at for their picures the beam in the same
barn. Tho original picture was 80 pretty. and so
entirely in Mr.. JOhnsOn's best vein, that we wonder
enerprsng publisher didn't buy it for reproduc
ing; this picture n performance though, MI
the same no one among but Mr. johnson could have
painted It.
ThereIs something sweet and natural in Mr. +. schu
chards "Rcyerie No G09 and FOR as well as we can see
II, where IL hangs the door, II looks well painted
after the school OF Merle and Bougereau II these are
nortr its- IN hay oh IN
picture OF them II ts only ideal subiecta boy who
pipes while his little sister childwiSc on the
summer scene before her. in either case Mr. Schu
chard gives promise day adding TO the number
Of the poets who now in such sad minority In
the Academy.
Mr.. D. Il. Knights "POt-au-Feu," No. i03, shows a
haud well trained French methods, trapng that has
taught the artist besides the purely technical matters OF
drawing, perspective and forth something OF the art
by which the French make much ont OF little The pres
ent picture hardly ust1es Its title by s oOntcntswe
look for q kitchen interior, whereas 1t shows us the
bank Of o French rIver-thc Seine most likely, with
villa gers filing their watcg-pails. But just the PCfi
fcu that most appetzlng OF French peasant dishes IS
made Of materials in themselves apparently insufficient
to satisfy the hunger OF hungry people French artists
have a sdll-partly mtuitivc, no doubt but largely
the fruit, we believe. Of the public demand
by which. with merely putting into their tossing
pan nothngs OF human life and seasoning them with
perhaps tear or two such onion might father
they make the most comfortable and homoke little PIC
lures Yet ont % the scraps OF incident an Eng
hsh Terican artist could produce nothing tocrabe
No Frrnchnau no German eycn-and I'm goure-pantng
there q few charming artists IN Gcrmany-coud ever
achieve distinction by such subjects Messrs Guy, and
Wood and J. G.. Brown, invariably choose, nor would
French artists Of the position In their country
s these gentlemen have gained here, condescend To
such commonplace ~ those with which they have made
rs familiar Something this art. have said Mr.
knight has learned but ne has not learned the whole
secret His picture IL pretty composed, but there Is
li;tle In it beside the mere OF fact. and
when We turn away from e. remember no particular
Gre or face ths group. say to ourselves that
wo will come back ~ Il another day. But the subject is
bright and chccry one. the people oil doing what
they would bo dong under the circumstances, tho land
scape s. true In character and wish for the credit OF
French nature IL not quite 30 true as II IA III
color; and 90 the whole Ir. Knight, picture may De
accepted pleasant enough joG to ones memories o.
the countryside about Paris,
word at parting Tor the landscapes IN this exhibition.
There are tar fewer than IL common Of good ones
while there are we think, than common o. large
aud pretending ones. We have already sp"sen
of Mr. George Inness's landscapes as " noisy"
and the more we study them the less for
tbdraU wing that ethet Not one these three large
pictures iustcs our praise OF him, could explain 10
stranger the high position awarded 20 him among our
landscape painters They di-Ordcrly IN composition
violent ia color and reckless In their assertions nbout
Nature dongs. Either ~ the pictures by ts artist In
tie exhibition al the Kurtz Gallery worth all thcsc
three put tog,;her Mr.. Edward Gays large hndsclpa
in he North Room j. wcmcaut Performance. but tame
and yypd as the scenery II depicts We could have
spared tho broken or stuntcd ioresrouud-trce
at the right; and the waters OF the Sound, seen
in the horizon, look dangerously Ike a tidal wave.
We are rcndy believe. however, that the uuirteres
ucncss uf this picture In the subject than In the
artist surely picuresqucness ought 10 b' ia" first
aim In picture and the shores OF Long Island Sound
are not the place Of all places whore should Eopo to
find H. Mr. Whittred.c. too Is tanner than usual this
year III, pictures are really too weak for hearty
condemnation. His " Il trnynrd" is rs pretty subject
As a man could wlsh-thiuk what VOllOn would have
zap or SAVIOR. As for tie " Paralise-Nowport," We
do not know how 20 express our surprise that
an artist who could choose such a subject. com
pose his lines well and go In good faith through all
the motions Of picture making, could yet end with show
Ing whatever for having chosen this place to
paint rather than another. Mr. A. II. wyant does not
please particularly with his this years contributions
but he cannot paint anything to which 1t would be posi-
betobe wholly Indifferent Mr. samuel Coiman, too Is less
interesting than had hoped hc was becoming bat tie
pantuess aud scenic effect OF hi. Lake Lucerne are
easily forgiven when his On the saco," No. COS,
which, all things considered, Is perhaps next - Nc L.
Swain Gnord's Dartmouth MoOrs," No. 2s3 the best
l,rJ,rape I'm the exhibition C. Z.
MIDNIGHT WEA THER REPORT.