New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-23

PICTURES AT AUCTION.
THE MOORE AND cuR11ss COLLECTION.


On Friday evening, March %, al O'Clock,
Messrs Thomas E. KIRBY g. Co. will sell at auction
al their rooms No. Si5 broadway. q collection of
eighty three ol-pannGs recently imported by Messrs
Moore Curtiss. Many of the names found ~ the eta
loguc are well known TO pioturebuyers; some OF them
are famous there few pictures ascrbed TO great
artists OF the oden time-Rubens, Of the Caracc
Correggio Albano-one surely encouraged 10 hope or
a reasona BILE amount OF pleasure III visiting gallery
where tine works Of such artists are displayed.
We have sometimes wondered what would be the re-
suit II picture-dealer 20 visit Europe and collect
frsn artists entirely unknown tins side
the water, roCmiu Of pictuies and drawings that
should seem him meritOrious In them-elves and likely
" please people OF ordinary taste and nteg nee he
putatiOns must begin somewher aud II instead OF
cleaning over the thrice CLEANED fields, ana hunting
in the wallpaper baskets Of men OF talent
for scraps as they may lave rejected
dealer should have the % start af esh, and
guided by his own eye and his taste, we have
faDeS the faded public would respond 20 hrs appeal.
However this may be, sure tue day Is passed for
such collections this OF Messrs Moore ca rIss 10
he accepted by the public The that MI their ca'-
alogue getting little wearisOme 10 the Amerc
ear because beginning to iud out for ourselves
that it Is Impossible the crop Of good specimens OF
the work OF these artists should bush and
It IL getting now TO be everyday hing for
promises such as this catalogue contains to be
nut forth--promises II is impossible should be fulfilled
Why not then, seek distinct on new path Why not
20 about and fnd tho budding Milets and Daubig-
nys the ROybes and Dupe e. and Courbets OF the fuure
Some one found these and the rest of the flock
once aud pushed them forward and helped them, young
things as they were, climb up into the kindly lap
Fame
But it hurts the OF Corot and Dup6 and MOnti-
CELL and Daubgny, to be asked to acknowledge
as theirs the pictures here exhibited with their
Names What, after all, Is there In name
We cannot trade forever unsubstantal Guaran-
we mean No. 65. " Ihe Juras "ior No % In unrcosOn-
ably bad passdDe sketoh BY R0yOet. NJ. II, and
wo.l-nough R0ybet IN his old way, No G5 The Mus
queIeer" There slight Zems, OF which No. 20
- On the Adriate. Is the beter-but how Is II bct
than a SwayDe GfOIdf Are we O learning that Zem
Is Overraed anu are not his perpetual orange sunsets
tedious as other peoplesf Plots =" Had ana
Bust OF Young Girl n pleasant 10 look the
drawing and modelling fresh and sweot-whO-
ever bu would do well TO paint the artificial
moss rose buds that been stuck by somebody
this perhaps the best picture here. But should
think IL remarkable In IA collection where the that
this catalogue It's Importance were really repre-
We have limited our discomfort in reading the names
of Corot Monice Dupre aud Others signed 10 some OF
these caDvases, We do not Clspule their right
to be 50 signed Every artist paints pictures
aud sketches IN the course Of hs apprentice
ship that do him credit But thuse
love the masters and love their most
protest exposng their Shortcomings and the things
panied when they were not In the PorhapB The
example OF this perversOn the Daubgny No IL
AS fer the pictures here by RuDens COrreggIo
ceased to be spell TO turn rubbish into gold. And
surely, this Flute Player is 9bDish II may be bad
from hs factory but be never IT, Ills Even
could IL be proved he painted twOud the mole for
that Re good pictures there salvation iu it, No
is called after Greuze. stale Od Joke long
way AFTER, fits here a. III 20 many cases Tue Correg
go" cannot he by COrTeggO. for II be- then what dd
that artist mean by his famous saying, l. too am
painter ~ The AiDaDO may be by That pleasing deco
- and ssti has a nretty bit OF dower.naiI1t'na % 80,
poppy In the lower efthsnd corner