New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-06-13
in Part, for nns piosurea" Yst II sne prices said to
bavc bean maid by NJ Defoer are reliable there was
great falling of at the sale. Millers "Msn with
onu Thts nicture reuorted to have

in Part. for nns piorurea" Yet sns prices said to
have been paid BY NJ Defoer are reliable tnere was
great falling of at the sale. Millers =" MAN WIN
brought 200 This picture was reported 10 nave
cost Defocr but ne aspor. by Ms brought
$1,000 and $1,000 and dSE"n pasass 1 sSe mphs
and +, Jus" was sold for $4,000 and Two Dauosnys
for about $4,000 each Decamp's "Gnmese cI,s.
for which II is said that $4,000 was paid brought
about $4,000. Diazs" COpide"ces OF Love was So.
LA Fantasia for 1900. Gericauts Trampetcr OF
Hussars." $1,000: Meissoniers Mar Zoo Lauga'"E;
Toyaser Ms s6ico Meissoniers picture, might
have brought higher prices had NM M M Msl,.'
sonier has recently quarTellcd with this fsan
In booming" his pic ures R0usSeaus Banks or inc
Loire" sold for only 1t saa 10 90
superior to the Rousseau purchase for the Louvre IN d
that Rousseau's Morning and Evening were s Th
by New-York dear for $4,000 ana SZo ,Ss latter
$4,000 in the Morgan safe. Another :" Eyenins ny Wy
sold Tor G6Oo and ems " Entrance to tnr W.T.
ing" which $4,000. sold FOR sl41o IL i. 10
evident that there must have been losses on meay a"
these pictures The Decamp which brought ;Z 900
few since. II is pity that neither lhe 1,
Government any Americans secured pclurrs ron
this collection. The presence of American bidders u
the kind represented at tho Morgan sale Would nave
materially increased the receipts But me LCnu,D"
Woyld is probably right In saying "Ih moral OF TINS
sale is that the rumoTs OF trlckery ana the eAcessN
newspaper puf,ery made the amateurs hesitate, anu
that generally the pictures dill not bring the prices
which their reputation ami value might JUSTIFY on
the other hand. French connoseurs congratulate the-
selves upon the retention of the picture. at h'me s
regard the good In view OF the nara tnes'
OF which there is 50 much complaint III Paris
The mosaic by Mr. Burne-J Jones. lately placed In the
American Church IN the va Ndstondle ko'ne' 10
described by the Italians themselves the most I
portant example OF this form Of art that recent times
produced" The mosaic. which executed ny an
Italian glass company from cartoons by the ar'lsl,
covers the whole the roof OF the apse space OF o'
than 500 square feet The subject Is christ en-
throned The of the New Jerusalem WIN aiges
about the throne. and the Archangc Mlc1ael anu h
peers ke' ping watch over the gates on either sne
or this work The LOndOH Times says: 'lhc pc"I'"l
genius OF Mr.. Burnc-JOnes has - never
found II more appropriate hold tnan here. Whatever
may he thought OF his pictures as pictura rev Voces
have raised against his designs for stained glasH
frior his power OF imagining noble forms whch
their counterpart elsewhere Than in mortal expert
finds pTOper field In designing for mosaic II
may he said that he ia almost the first OF motth
artists who has really understood the limitations OF Ins
particulsrart"
IIor Reviews of New Books, including haia-
hari"" A Book OF Gossip" IAN Artists Greed"
and " Novels and Sketches" see tenth page