The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-10-14

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schanse's Galery-Tho Vanderbilt An
Stewart Collection Judge Hilton nm
the Fine Arts-The British Rifle Team
Immense Fall Trade-Gossip Abou
Town, etc.
New YORK, October Z, 1882.
ED1ToR CHIEF:
1t is always pleasant task to tur
from tho crime, the clicanery and tur
n,oil of great city to pass quiet do,
with the artists, to sit aiming picture
that bring back dreams of the long-ago
while life was young and hope was rosy
and the world was an nnexplored para
disc, full of tue most wondrous possibiIi
Responsibilities never to be realized ol
this side of tue golden gates. Our artists
are all fresh from the hills, aud valleys
and the seaside, and the coming season
promises we'll for the artists and for art
notwithstanding the success of Messo
nier and Meyer Won Bremen on small
canvases, the tendency of American ART
has been to more pretontious aud impos-
lug pictures. Thanks to the kindness ol
Mr.. Schause, whose gallery is ON Broad.
way, opposite jAstor Place, was permit.
ted to take a look at his private collec-
! ton, which is zone of the most maguifi-
cent and costly ever seen in New York:
One thing impresses the most careless
| observer, and that is the increasing ten-
| dency to realism; and in this particular
many of the pictures exhibited at Mr..
scl,ause's h:,vd never been cxcelled. It
is difficult to ltartics,larize when all is so
excellent, but there is Que thing that
tells the story Of our art advancement
more plainly than any thing else, and
that is the difference in the figures
at which, pictures are purchased from
what they were q few years ago. When
Mr.. .Schause frst occupied his present
gallery, a picture worth five hundred
dollars was regarded rs rather costly
affair, and sometimes it had to be kept
OH the easel weeks and months looking,
for a purchaser. Now, if dealer gets
anything worth speaking of, his shop is
filled with connoisseurs and buyers. He
does not have to wait for customers.
Customers wait for him, and esteem
themselves fortunate If ut the cost of
thousands they secure prizes which,
twenty years ago would scarcely have
demanded u second look. Two, three,
four and five Thousand dollars is not All
price to pay for q picture. It
is said that the late A. L. Stewart paid
$40, 600 for Rosa Bonheur's Horse Fair;
and the Lenox Library paid $12, 500 for
Turner's Slave Ship. The Vanderbilts
have invested heavily i'll the fine arts.
Neither William Fl. Vanderbilt nor his
son Cornelius care a straw for pictures.
William II. Vanderbilt being u small
farmer up to his middle aye, knows more
Of the points of a horse, or u mule, or a
pig than he does of a Vandyke or Raph-
ael but somebody told him that /. rich |
man ought to have picture gallery, and
that is the proper thing to do SO, as he
wants TO 1lo just what a rich man ought, /
he has invested quito u large amount i'll
pictures, the frescoes in his new house
being about equal to all ordinary fine
art gallery.
The splendid collection of the late A. |
L. Stewart might just as we'll be buried
under the pyramid of Cheops, for no.
body is ever allowed to see it except |
Judge Hilton's and Mrs. Stewards friends,
md they are SO few as not to be worth
The late Marshall o. Roberts had a
inc collection of rare paintings, aud amy
person applying for permis-
lion to see it was never refused. I know
several who have applied to see the
Stewart collection, but never a person to
,e admitted.
LII few weeks we shall have the fall
exhibition Of the Society of American
Artists" the " National Academy of De-
ign," and the Brooklyn Art Associa-
ion." This is an event always looked
onward to with great interest, not only
y Brooklyn people, but New Yorkers.
'or, strange as it may seem, there is not
free exhibition of fine arts in New
'ork city, if we except that at the Met
opolitan Art Museum, which, for such Il
place, has but an indifferent
election. To Brooklyn belongs the
Ugh honor OF maintaining each fall and
pring a free art exhibition for her citi-
Bns. She has done this for many years.
is supported at great cost by the pri-
ate contribution other wealthy men, and
5 consequence they have succeeded in
taking Brooklyn one of tie art centres
the Union.
There has been plenty excitement this
eek, at least enough to keep us alive. i
Te have been trying to get up smile
lat our English cousins thr;.shed US at
reedmoor; but it is the sorriest attempt
. laugh that you ever saw. If por- g
ats could be taken of the American
fle team you might imagine they had :
sen feeding OIL vinegar and pickles for a
le last six months. The British rife
am is fine looking set of men, and !
ear their honors brayely and modestly.
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