The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-11-27
FINE ARTS.

FOREIGN NOTES AND NEWS.
The Bruges Exhibition of Fine Arts is to open on
the 3Oth of this month.
The Union Centrale will organize in 1880 at the
Palas dIndustre. in Paris. exhibition Of fine art
applied industry 1t will open early in April and
close at the end Of November
The Moniteur des Arts says that Bouguereau's
Fagellation OF Christ will be one of the finest can
vases at the next Salon.
The sculptor Chapu will be represented at the
Salon OF 1880 by his Of Leverrier and by two
groups ordered by Baron Nathaniel Rothschild. of
Vienna.
Country is at the plates OF two drawings
for Fabre's Liable Tigrane" which Jean Paul
Laurens brought back with him from Yport where
he passed the summer.
Paul Baudry has finished the cartoons Of his dec
orations for OF the chambers OF tho Court Of
the Exchequer at Paris.
M. Rolls large canvas, "The Fete Of Silenus."
which in tho last salon. WILL at the request Of
the Vienna Kunstverein be sent to its approaching
annual exhibition.
FeyenPerrin that spiritel painter. is at work for
the next Salon large figure Of
= Venus Astarte. file do ronde amere,
Et fecondait 10 monde en- tordant cheveux.
There hundred paintings, twenty.
water colors drawings and pastels eleven
etchings and photographs and eleven pieces of
sculpture in the fine art lottery which tho Paris
Ecemeaent has organized for the benefit Of the suf
ferers by the fire at Chatenois.
The exhibition of fine arts at the Kunstlerhaus in
Pesth was to open on the Goth inst.
Tho French Minister OF Fine Arts will open
petition for large picture to fill the large panel be-
hind the chair of the President of the Chamber at
the Palas Bourbon The subject Will be taken from
French national history for the past eighty years
Mignard's masterpieces in the cupola OF the
Church OF the Val-do-Grace, in Paris, to be
stored. The church, Of the most remarkable in
Paris, will also undergo restoration.
Tho series of drawings which John Everett Miais
has made to illustrate Thackorays 'Vanity Fair arc
now being engraved.
Bonnat will probably send to the next Salon his
portraits OF President Grevy and of his MASTER Leon
Cogniet.
Lecomte de NoIry is painting the portrait Of
Colonel Salvador At the siege of Metz.
The Dublin Fine Art Exhibition will open in Feb
ruary next.
D6taile will not exhibit ut the next Salon. He
will send his English military scenes as we have
the French Water Color Society. The Prince OF
Wales recent visit to tho painters studio,
bought number Of his works with English sub
jects, and invited him return to England to make
more studies and to take part in the Princes hunt
ing parties in December. Detaille will 60 If pos
si6e.
The Gdu7o tells the following curious story about
the French actor Berthelier:--He had been playing
with great success at Brussels in the ''Trente Mil
lions de Gladiator" and on leaving for Paris met in
the station American, who asked him to share his
compartment. On the way the latter said to the
actor You are not only remarkable artist but
You also en- ightened art amateur. Have you
a Mlety' Berthelier replied that he had not. He
had long wished for one. but the prices too
high. ''What does that matter?' said the other.
"Allow me to offer you one. own tho Lsetto do
Beranger. which is exactly what you want Don't
you this little present" Berthelier afterward
thought he had been dreaming but on going to his
sides fine Roybct-'The Pillago Of the Palace Of
tho Archbishop"