The New York herald., 1879-09-22
FINE ARTS.
NEW PICTURES IN THE DEALERS GALLER1xs-


NEW PICTURES IN THE DEALERS GALLERIEs-
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Sunshine" and SHADOW" the titles Of two
poetic companion pictures by George H. Boughton.
the newly elected A. R. A., which have within few
days been placed in the gallery at Avery's. The
single figures each canvas are about one-quarter
life size. In ''Sunshine" fair-haired, happy
maiden stands by the roadside, picking daisies and
buebells. at the close Of summers day. The deli
cate tnts Of her face and hands repeated in
her dainty English costume Of . century ago. Over
the reach Of the road. in the middle dis
tance the sun strikes effectively. while
feel that gentle airs make the shade grate-
full to the happy young gentlewoman. Does
she stray by the roadside to meet her lover? Shall
we say that the dark haired. sad looking girl in
Shadow has lost hers? Has love faded like the
bunch Of daisies and bluebells the balustrade
against which she leans at the close Of fall day,
halt shverng she gathers the folds Of her skirts
about her while the wind whistles in the gray tw-
light through the needles the frse The treatment
of the subject is in both poetic and refined
The most important. and certainly the most at.
ractve Of those Of Mr.. Averys recent importations
which have had the pleasure Of seeing is beau-
tiful and poetic work by Jules Lefebvre called 'La
Gloire du Marin'' c'The Morning Glory'). A life
size figure Of sweet. earnest eyed young girl. seen
lines up against glorious morning light. Twined
among her long. light brown tresses is wreath Of
the flowers she typiies whose end. Is it falls down
her neck she holds with her left hand. Her light.
purplish and almost diaphanous drapery is secured
by long yellow scarf. As she looks in
sweet iaqu.lring manner ne At as . she hoits its
ed Charming, natural and modest mo- action. The draw
ing Of the figure is simply perfect the colorinG 10
pure and delicate and the modelling is superb. In
AoI t1a ctan1o hal ind
right arm. The shadows oil lightly
tnts that she the very spirit Of the morning.
1t is of the purest semi nudes we have ever see
here when the Latham collection was sold
admirable work. but can see that the painter has
improved an his flesh work. for in this respect
A on the Bay Of Mentone 10
a good picture by A. Calame deceased Swiss
painter little known here. The rockwork is fine
and the color very pleasing large example OF
Charles jacques, painted some years ago. is in
manner much more careful il not striking arc
his later productions. 1t shows shepherd under
oaks, his sheep scattered over the hillside and
One of Ricos sparkling and delicious little land.
scapes is q the Seine ut Bas- Meudon There
couple OF canal boats moored by the shore. and
past some houses in the middle distance is seen
town. In presentation OF the most minute objects
it is like miniature. but these touched in with
1t is like looking at scene through the small end
of an opera glass. A water color painting for
q by j. g. Vibert, which in the hrst exh1bl.
ton of the French Water Color society, has Jap
anese subject. mother. standing terrace,
has been frightening her little boy by putting on
hideous mask. and he has. in falling down some
steps, broken his toy and sits crying q the bottom.
1t is pleasing. skilful bit OF work. Tofano is rep
resented by girl looking over her fan. OF Dupre
there is mellow example in hts best manner-a
twilight on . stream. with castle under trees. A
small and soidly painted little Daz is Of his best
period girls head by Knaus also deserves men.
ton. as does Piot-a life size ngure Of syoung girl
reading.
of Brussels, is represented by flower. fruit and
game piece OF large size. One Of couple or little
light with fgures q slushy road. running
through q snowy landscape, while the other depicts
scspe by Rofan may contain good drawing. but it IL
as hard as it possibly can BE- We % n0se turshsr n1as
Shreyer with horses In fine action; strong land
scape by DeKnyf, painter little known here, but
highly esteemed abroad. in which female figure in
boat has been painted by Alfred Stevens; French
landscape by W. L. Pcknell. painted out of doors
and with truth, and charming little head by Au-
bert from the last Salon, "A Young Girl OF Albano.
ART IN ssscRIBNER's" AND est. NICHOLAS"
Looked at from an art standpoint Scrsbmers Monthly
for October is decidedly or number. Tho
principal engraving is very nice piece of line tintng
by Cole from photograph Of Fortuny's water color
Thc Piping shepherd" which. however. s incorrect
in its rendering of the charoscuro of the original.
in which the contrasts are much stronger. Among
the illustrations to the article "Ups aud Downs in
Leadyille'' we call attention to the curiously bad
aud perspective in tho representation
of the fou horse team in the drawing Up hill Work
and to several excellent cuts by Mary Haliock
Foote especially TO the interior. strong head OF
Edison by Francis Lsthrop has been well engraved
by Yuengling. Miss Oakey's illustration to tho
poem 'The New Years. shows MS young lady with
black hands, surrounded by doves. The paper on
Rio Janeiro is we'll illustrated by shephard and
Moran after drawings by X. wiegandt. There is
clearly cut portrait OF sullivan, the composer. In
ST. Nichotas we note Jessie Curtis frontispcce
.srrying Charms Witches Nignt;" excellent
drawing fun character by Alfred Fredercks. Illus
tratipu the poem Duke Leopold's Stone," and
among other cuts by Kelly "Unnland' which is full
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