Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-20
ART NOTES.

lean artists opened at the Museum of Fine
Arts on the 9th of November, and close.
on the Goth of December.
Ernest Parton has returned from Europe
after achieving the unusual distinction O.
having one of his landscapes bought by the
London Royal Academy.
NJ. F. H. De Haas is finishing Dutch
coast scene. There is an old fort on the
shore at the left, within range of which are
several small craft in calm. bright weather
The youngest painter recompensed this
year at the Salon was Francois Martin,
who, though only 10, received an honor.
able mention for his painting, "Chez VI
Orientaliste.
The sculptor Barrias, the successful ar.
fist in the recent competition for the
monument In cemmemora ion of the de-
tense of Paris, has been intrusted with a
similar work for the town of St. Quentin.
The Photographic department of the
Bibliotheque Rationale at Paris will
shortly be engaged in the reproduction OF
selected specimens of the masterpieces con.
tanned in its collection of prints and il
Illuminated MSS.
As additions to the collections of the
Art Students League, j. Carroll Beckwith,
who has charge of the antique class, has
brought from Paris six figure drawings, two
each by Lecomte du Nouy, Becker and
Linnereux.
Detaille's latest picture in ola mill
tary review-was painted for John T.
Martin of Brooklyn as a pendant for one
executed last year for the same gentleman,
representing charge of cavalry. The work
is some four feet long.
The Etcher is described as formed more
or less on the basis of cooperative soci-
ETY., in which the artists who contribute
works share in the profits equally with the
publisher, who pays certain amount for
the right of printing the etching in his pa
per, and also allows the artist the right of
selling through his agency whatever proofs
the public may desire to have.
A quantity of articles of virtu from the
recent great sale of the Demidoff collection
at San Donate, near Florence, is now dis
played at the rooms of Sypher & Co., New
York. One article is revolving table, de-
picting in rich mosaic the taking of Bounck-
oux by the Russians, the work of Gioac.
CliuO DdiUcll, olSuCu ny uiiu dHu udleu
1888. The relics of Napoleon, of which
Prince Demidoff had so large a number,
are here sampled by the writing. desk,
dressing table, and mirror the banished
Emperor used at Elba; number OF
chairs, two sofas, and flag of the First
Regiment of Grenadiers, inscribed with
the names of their battles in gold bullion.
Dargue, pupil of Gerome, whose works
are SO few that they number scarcely a
score, is finishing miniature picture of a
man, in the costume of Louis Kill, seated
in an elegant salon playing the flute.
The painting is about eight by ten inches
in size, and the price asked $4,000 francs.
The only examples of his work known in
this country are two in the collection
owned by W. III. Vanderbilt and one in
that of Miss Wolfe.
One of the noblest Millets ever seen in
this country has just been placed in the
Avery Gallery, New York. 1t is Shep.
herdess, " seated upon low stone wall, be.
hind which appear the heads of some re.
cumbent sheep, and thick forest of tall,
straight trees. The young woman is in
some respects OF higher type than the
characteristic Millet peasant, less sad per.
haps than usual, and of not unintellect.
ual cast of countenance, although too slug.
gish ever to be taken for an incipient Joan
of Arc. This picture is satisfying and
stirring at all points where one expects
greatness in Millet.
Boston has received photographs of two
new pictures by Hans Makart. One Of
these photographs-tha of "Diana and
her Nymphs lis truly remarkable. 1t
shows perfectly, /" says Boston writer,
"two qualities of the painting-the beauty
of the composition and the fine contrasts
of color by which the flesh tones are won.
derfully relieved" The other photograph
attempts less 1t reveals the " interior OF
Makart's studio, spacious, lofty apart.
ment, sumptuous in its furnishings of mas.
sive carved furniture, old tapestries and
armor, and rich decorative effects.
The Art Students League in New York,
founded by the younger artists, is now
entering upon its fifth year, having already
attained foremost place among American
schools of art. The instructors, as last
year, are !: For drawing and painting life
classes, William Sartain portrait classes,
W. NJ Chase; composition classes, Walter
Shirlaw; drawing from the antique, j.
Carroll Beckwith modelling and artistic
anatomy, J. S. Hartley; perspective,
Frederick Dielman. Only those intending
to make art a profession can be members
OF the League, but the classes are open to
all who are up to the standard in drawing