New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-10-04
ART IN Trance.

The present quarterly volume of Tart,
The second OF the present year and the seventeenth
OF the whole issue which has Just been received
by J. W Boulon. is more interesting than have
been some Of rs immediate predecessors There is more
variety IMAM usual IN the contents, and u tue topics
dealt with lDe editor hts aimed less at retrospect
and concerned himself less with the art Of
The past, than he has been IN the habit OF
doing although Is true that from the FIRST LArt has
been more like aItnewspaper than Ike the common
ari-revew Ii mas professed 10 give US what is very
much needed information 10 what Is going on IN the
world Of IN own time, putting rs much OF IL as
possible before eyes by means OF an abnn-
dance OF illustrations; and thus giving US the
means TO follow understandnCly whatever criii-
esms may be offered To out such plan as this
successfully depends much the cathohcity Of an
editors mind, and certainly. all exceptions made NJ
yeron has done deal 10 prove mat he Is moved
BY an honest desire 20 get rid OF tha chGurntsm that
excessive worship OF ones own country and county,
men. for which France and Frenchmen have
been so much reproached So remarkable is this
feature IN the management OF LAT that II
Will be found a better source OF information as 10
what being done England IN certain quarters at
least and IN America than exists as yet IN ether
OF those countries. II Is true, the English Art Journal
keeps ~ informed Of the dongs Of academcians ana
the favnrltes Of the upper middle class but,
of the artists who the delight OF artists
and poets we DO not Learn great deal
from that higuy respectable journal. On the other
hand L'Aris carefully fenced round by lis English
editorial staff from any intrusion OF the British pills
tine element The Art Journal is from the poetic ee
ment so that nave access to the two Journals
h gets between them q reasonably complete survey of
tie whole fed.
The present volume OF LAH contains
articles on the German School Of Painting,
with notices of the work of Knaus, +. A.
Kaulbach. schiador. Gustav Richter and Edouard
Won Gcbnardt with AN account OF the religious
mixtures of TINS artist his Cruchxon" and his last
snprer." concerning the originality and strength OF
winch so many runOrs have reached US Some OF the
heads are gwen slightly sketched from both these pic
lures There also notes in this Interesting article
upou considerable number Of German artists whose
works figured the Paris Exhibition Of ISIS Other
articles upon tins Exposition the cntinuation Of the
pevew of the Water-Color Artists, the artists
in BLACK and whie and the etches ana engravers our
coInuairof NJ. L. A. Abbey l. highly praised for his
rc Rentissiac stpja,"" The Stage Once." ana an
craving OF H. gwen, by which u apeats that the draw
IN is the original o. the excellent wood cut published IN
scribner Tor brupry, 1876. where u is called "Mrs.
Robcrt Murray entertaining British Officers while Put
lam escares" An art moisst might draw useful les
SOP from this attempt to hmd suitable name Tor
rcrure Clever as Mr.. Ahbcy's drawing T., 1t tells no
story by itself and WHILE before We remembered where
We had ell where, we were puzzled TO make out
why Il was called " TIE stage Office" yet when
Turned 10 II i'm our Scrbner" the for the other
title was not whit apparent stu, this does not
make the drawing itself less excellent. aud Mr. Abbey
well deserves the praise hberaj bestowed upon HIN
ly the writer in L'Ari. Mr. Gordon Greenough,
another American exhibitor is also spoken highly Of,
and reduced reproduction given OF a sohdly drawn,
expressive portrait In c4ayon by him. Oiher articles o
importance are on TiepOo. Venetian artist OF the
eighteenth century Q693-l77O). with number OF
Cravings Illustrating his work In very interesting
manner; Mrs Heaton writes David Scott, an artist
of whom too little known boru at Edinburgh in lsOG.
oied in ls49 Two illustrations are gwen from his de-
signs for The Ancient Mariner" but they do hot do him
Justice showing only side Of his genius. the
,uorl,sd one ne inherited Blake ana Fuseli lie
was ia truth the master Of nonle vein OF historical
,.iniing yet he died much Pictor gnous Blake
himself Egyptian Art az the Trocadero; The DecOra-
rive Arts OF Spain at the Exposition % 1878 excel
lent account OF Turner'S "IAber StudlOum"
Nv Frederick Wrdmorei notices Of Augnste
Ptesult Gullaume Regamey and Jules Dupie.
assist in making ~ volume that has many
claims upon all who are interested in the study
ofnt.
The engravings add greatly 10 the value OF the
text hut rather as explanations and illustrations than
NV their beauty since by far too many Of them are
. neither hsh fesh good red herring." but mere
nrofucous by soue OF Of the processes now much
smnoved Prom this condemnation the etchines must
ha xcepted: but these faT less attractive than We
a.e accustomed 10 see In Ian