New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-07
THE FALES COLLIE CTIONS.
VAST AND STRANGE ARRAY.


ern porcelain, oriental potteres' ana rlca,pi''o
collected by the lae Samuel Bradford Faies' OF Ph'a
delpha. The whole is to be sold al auc'loh Hoh .lo
18th 20 the 23d Of the present month"; the sale that
place on the afternoon of the 2lst 70 SPoo
a curious collection canes, shngtache, furnure'anu
miscellaneous articles which are not included III tne
present exhibition The catalogue OF the objects on we"
is itself an evidence of the importance attached by the
auctioneers to this collection. Many an athor WIN
stands sivering before needless public in thh paper
worn type and binding that speaks Of better dAS g. "J
sigh he this catalogue OF tlties ron ~ "
/ handsome outiit that Messrs. J. j. Little Oo' 'no
printers have given it, 235 fine octave pages prouu III
S' n,rha. ,i,evgorn image "a river
| OF type meanderng in meadow u
margin" our poor author VIII think anu VIZ
think with him, that this luxury is somewhat mSp'e"
and that what Would t well enough with the treasures
of Brincy or a Duke Of Marlborough is hardly suitable
10 suc an inconcrous and rather amIess lot OF things rs
these however commercially valuable many OF thein
perhaps tine most of them, may be. However we VIII
no. cburshy object 70 handsome book even II there is
nothing m IT, but will praise for being good oil us Ahd
setting forth its vacancy with fitness, saying nanght
! with accuracy, and bringing a fautless proof
reading to bear ON pages that are proof against
| all reading Mr.. Kirby means 70 do well
whatever he does, and means to have even
his catalogues in harmony with his new rooms no" the
peasantest and most convenient OF tner kind in the up
| town region Of the city
The first seventyfour pages of the catalogue are taken
up with the 175 paintings and the hfy-eght water
colors winch ill the walls Of the south room The oil
raintings are mostly Of The Dusseldorf school, or II
French then French of the class that so well repre-
! sented here through the enterprise OF the
house Of Goupil twenty years ago. Here are
| de Brackeleer, Erissot, COuturier, Irayer' the
| Freres, Lambiuet, Lumnais, Robbie, among the
Frenchmcn. and Hassenpnug, Hoguet Karl Hubner'
| Tenkate VerboeckhOven, NerschnW ana Nlltkaup 10
| represent the German side.
Between these are foun0 crowd OF pictures that belong
to either side side in particular, ana that might
all bear the name author for all the variety there
is in their way of looking al nature and at human me-
Mr. George W. Curs's young lady" WHO asked at one
of Mrs Potphar's receptions whether Mr. Dusseldorf
did really paint all the pictures in the gallery that went
by his name" had more than at the Time gave
| her credit Tor AS we look at these relics OF that
once famous academy after nearly thirty years CNhS
the feotng years) PLAINLY perceive that though the
hands are the hands OF various yons ana vans tue
voice is fhe voice OF old Mr.. Dusseldorf himself But
though tue fashion of this Dusseldorf world has passed
away in these parts and there nothing these walls
that can any longer tempt the amateur OF yester year,
il Is interesting learn that our German iell0WcitN"h-
still remain loyal TO what pleased cm in their salad
| days. ard that q Renaissance o. M" Old Dusseldorf
| fervor is showing itself in Teutonlc .u.-ers.
Meanwhile 1t must be said tina, ledry all these pic
ures are good svccmens OF their kind The Couurcr ia
large and important specimen Of artist with whose
pictures OF barnyard fowls the walls Of Goups gallery
once made us familiar. The Charles Jacquc hanging
near it similar subject, but is style that does
not recall this avore painter There Is very good cX
ample of Edouard and two by cieyerpupi Of his
| Mile Pauline Caron. There are also two pictures
| by an artist who once enjoyed a remarkable
| popuariJy here, ]. b. Trycr, whose name,
owing to a misleading OF his signature by the maker Of
the catalogue. is m.sprntcd three times; once ID the
alphabetical index and twice I'm the body Of The catalogue
as Crayer" The mistake Is worth correcting since 80
far as know there sno such person as Craycr, while
the name of Trayer stands used to stand for some
thing on the books OF the picture dealers.
OF course we must expect find specimens Of Eugene
Verboeckhoven here for in Mr Fales's pctnrecoltct
| ing days this artist a favCrite Of the hrst
| wafer and a gallery without its Ncrbocckhovcn
was no more 10 he found than market boy a
ducor in these days without amethyst ring In those
DAYS when audacious critics declared that the Bcgan
sheep did not look in the least ae real sheep the rich
amateurs twiddliug their VCrboccAovens on their little,
middle and foreAngers to catch the light declared IN
their turn that IL much the worse for the real
sheep Gradually, however Nature has conquered, a.
! she win in the long and OF late years we
| have not been pcstcrcd ~ We were
with verbocckhoven and his sheep which
| had the look Of having been sLanpoocd, pomhtumed
and up models for the painter with express orders
no. to stir for OF mussng their wool But for all
that we have learned 10 pity VerboeckAoycn for Li'
ignorance sheep, and despse him for it, we will be-
bound that many old wOrshpper Of the artist will
return to his auction day, and carry on these
specimens Of his neat dexerity in triumph
| II is easy to say that Daz would turn in his
grave If he could see these pictures that are
| called by his name, NOS 1917, las, but We fear
he would do NOTHING Of the kind The world full OF
pictures just like these, that Daz painted with light
heart and without any quams of conscience, rs pot
boilers pure and simple. One who knew him well re-
counts careless and gay he sat before his easel
frouted by an obstinate pile of bills that often repulscd
at last insisted ON being paid "sKty thousand francs
Let me see Let see Wa la la Wa Ia la! Here goes
for NV little Turkish Children at Play Five little
Turkish Children at Play for six hundred francsi
Dab dab, dab; blue, yellow. aud red, dab dab, dab
here they all hot five little Turkish children al
play =" or, It the everlasting repetition OF
Old Tree Trunk" Children Teasing Dogs" "Young
Girls CaressDg Cupids" An Avenue In the Forest of
Fonainbeau" "anOiher avenue In the same" "anotheT
ditto in the ditto" damnabe iteration which at last de
feaed ITSELF and from Astounding popularity brought
the artists work into merited contempt Only two Of
| three times In year did Diaz produce a real
Daz and these the children OF his own house. not
for sale in the market, TIL the artists death brought
them there. Few artists Of time, OF any time
with 80 much native talent as Diaz-he never had any
instruction In his art-have so wasted 10 on unworthy
work But, then, almost everything he painted, even
when he at his worst most careless most greedy for
money-not hoard il, but to spend has traces
OF talent something that at least points to what he
| might have done, and 10 what he sometimes did.
We say much for Mr. Faless "old masters" his
| Vandyck, his Peter Pourbus his Baptsta his Cam
pidoglios. They old pictures without a doubt and
| not without merit, but the best Of them have been
ceaned-before they left Mr. Faless they
went TO i-ceaned and repainted until they have much
ado to know themselves However, maued they are,
we find them interesting than the modern pictures
which seem to q very sleepy lot.
| There are few Of the water-colOis worth
| looking at, but for the most part the
same fatal want Of perception that drew this