New-York tribune., 1886-03-29
ART NEWS AND COMMENTS.
THE WEEK IN ART CIRCLES.
MILLET EXHIBITION sUGGEsTED-ARr NEWS HERE
AND ABROAD.

for Millets widow the Barbzon cottage In whlch t'
artist lived and painted for twenty seven years Aen
ton has already been called to the fact that Madame
Met has only lease OF tins cottage which Will expire
within = few months. The small Government pension
watch she and the earnings of her SON. VINO
an artist barely sufficient FOR their support ana they
! have nothing draw upon for the purchase oi 'he
house. As every reader of sensier knows, Jean
Francois Millet lived life OF poverty. Ho receNou
the trGing compensation for his work for years
and yet his own work his only resource. IL IA
ptful story that senser tells OF the straits TO which th'
brave kindly reduced, story nttle releNou
| by the marks OF appreciation which came IN MAe'
later life His last years passed IN some degree o
comfort but received the worth OF his work ana
he was never able to accumulate money. Personally
Met was 4 Of prudent life and simple tastos ana
IL was through fault OF his that he was enable 10
make sufficient provision for his family And now the
question whether HIS cottage ~ Barozon, whlch
has Lecome famous wherever great art Is recognized
shall be taken away from hls widow to pass into 'He
| hands OF strangers or to be destroyed
This Is something which Americans No little
pride has been taken In the thought that Americans
were among the very hrst to appreciate Mers genus
| rbe aie w. NJ Hunt one OF his early friends. one
OF the buy hts pictures and to call the attention
Others Ike Mr. quincy shaw to their sterling merits
or recent years Americans have sought Miuets works
without regard to price. His paintings sketches
! stndies black and white drawings and pastes have
found purchasers at figures which the artist never
dreamed Of Miet's " SONer" in the vanderbilt gal
lcry. Is understood TO have been bought for between
$4,000 aud $4,000, probably the highest price ever
paid for one Of NerS pictures, with the exception OF
the "Augeus" At the Morgan sale eleven pictures by
Millet brought S5f575, average Of nearly $1,000
each Tces ;hauS5 900 would preserve Mlets home for
his widow. The money paid for Mct's pictures by
Americans IS be counted by scores OF thousands OF
dollars. The profits on these pictures have gone TO
dealers and miid.emen. M'llet himself received little.
Il would be only act of justice Tor Mets American
admirers to make such comparatively slight conpensa-
ton as wodd be involved in the presentation OF his
home to his widow.
This can be done without circulating subscription lists
by holding a. loan exhibition " Nia"s works, which
would Jo Su..to OF Ucueit AID raIe clj 'ymcEt u
e,-iy lover of The purpose Of such AN cyap;ion
Should -o,sIr tine ptrto. o. tGc owners ci Mi.,t-
paintings in this cry. As 20 the place OF exhibition, Il
see" probable that tie Academy could Dc obtained la
Nay aIerte regular exhibition closes. although this
would rc late tho season. II the ptutu-, hy tA,
upr, ss.oEs,s" DO not fiI al tho galleries OF ,he
American Art ASS citation, one gallery w lee offered FOR
tAis purpose without car. Possibly some other place
may be suggested. The century Company or Aessis.
II,suur e. 90. you'd probably lend cIs l-ou Saa,er,
d" LIE NJ Her TO- re catalogue, ana tho HeAotyuo
Printing Company. OF Boston. OG.:S % furnish say
others without c1Irce. AIJstou "aGWircr ~ Niict'
warmly Advocates sae2 al exhibition, and possibly
como pictures woEt oe lcuJ from tbo. city This
g,oaj not Be essential, however &rN-Iork owners "
icts WI consent &, lend tlcr pictures IAs cXa!-
bton -hoa,d lr before Nay III p'-s bic The sum
needed ros te .rcasr or - ."fs home s understood
{, ouIy about $1,000. and the receipts from alis
SION srd sales o. cst'ogu"s should certainly Do sg-
cieot for liza purpose. !I+:a ls chance 'og oas anna
tea.s % saoT a. ontr > uH'e.H' app s.'tou OF ar~
Tha SUBSCRIPTIONS received 'lG- tlr ',t the Prize
Faut EIa.3...oa sh5F That pH.e p." 4ras WI 10 to
e Nerlor, tan Nls-aa, -o fne Cofc3r,u Az. Gal, .r,
To- Loaisyill~ ami p-ooaov to the museum. OF 49,.
of q a & A "a lNs |'4ea .
rictnres Tor t'. o1uh fou received trus far are cr
oclr4s.rr A reclrt. ta, academy. there arr tAee
n.ta. rron,.,. re member. II the Hanging Commit
tee 1nlsa their task tails "e,@
AtMc American ATT Galleries ono ct the rooms con
scenes 10y Mr. j s' 'Tty. ey convey an it' oi iu
te,es:as and unfamiliar subjects which seem 10 have
blCu chosen by tae atst usually or t-irnov-ty rather
than fo, ;"er artistic 7E""'"Io'. f' maps % ~ as vol
t. consI. 'hem Smry as memo'ar "a Of travel, ,or thr
tain interest.
Taelata EIosarI Ma4ct. k!oE OF tho impression.
iu he Apr it An1,eur article which has the vfIGe
Of t'meIucss u new oi iho approaching exhibition ot
paintings ty tho "hnpre-7ionls,-" Discussion Of Tie
IlrssD 80 occupies tjcl space ia this number
IAsre Is gwen a h't OF tho pictures pr!cc4
dealers laI buyers waco IA claimed to be accurate 1 q
editor suggests th" !he aeaIeIs should unto
March nu,n.,r OF ne n Ag4 o Is accompanied by
NJ Hart ihe March number OF Art Ga4 Dsc5~q1,a
ouens with paga OF fan designs by Mr.. George f.
Df
drawing and de-,ns, by Messrs. Hahn, Macauay Ran
3@N aud others. These are intended. Ike tle Illl-
Of workers iu decorative art
Mt Dw slt Benton writing from Rome to The 4,crj |
cu register 4ris. protests altnst "tAe Iuulruc-s Of
constantly repeated p1au-' o- scenes familiar to
bic evidence Vi having been copied from rhotograpa,
me- 80 prevalent 'u these Times. when plotSrra1 ~
deseueratinE hundreds lt tho younger artists who
men, develop seauEen' and 'e'i1g II they would In.
stead Of being the -!ayes Of mechanism thar v,iyI
them down more than ever wa snhid Ay the Old man
tisf. world reyol'4 A. the excess OF Ns,ssouer Ike a.
ry to n.lmpy''Hn' & &faCI' ana compe' the recogui. /
the verify Tat painting nike literature, is graf
simply initiative and descriptive" The same letter
Describes groun Of sculpture recently completed by
CAPTIVE beng a white girl who has lived among Iuliau
LONG enough To cling 20 dusky hero, despite the en-
rle subject Is due to the historical fact that treaty
mtdr with some warlGe Ono valley tribes in October
turned OF the number preferred their Indian
He nj assocatet It is hardly possible TO feel symns
which the sculptor may count upon as point Win
American museums.
The Courier de l. Ayt OF March Il mentions tbo
prices pait .'r examples o. Beton Nbert Meissonicr
Honucr and Corot At the Morgan sale, and adds Tho
pictures brought prices which give n vertigo I'm
some ie-rcs ths Is to'.' m oIl'rs Gad -opd because
u is ueccs'7y 10 r''"e 20 sec me works OF our
rtic IN ,uy case these price, omit |J 80 IS no ne
NC c happy osse.-ors of pictIrc. OF fe IG 10 re-
school" M LoHdo" Telsgrlh deyotes over a column
10 Art s1es ID America treating Of tho Morgan "a e.
and Mr. Pierre LoiIllarPs sale OF horses
which the writer through soma subtle moutal process
has come 20 consider an " at sac" or the Morgan
sale lie Tcl,g,aph says: Here then we are brougit
face To face with the asccraned and ncontestabe fact
that tie United states nov contain q auilcieucy of
wealthy lovers oI art 10 pat their greatest city nearly
upon = eyel with its two uroVean rivals II must
not forgotten tLai MIS- Morgan ANA other Ameri-
can c1uuYisscUrs have acquired their European treas
mes under penal and almost prob btory t,rn De.
slp us COSBY restrictions, she succeeded in bringing
6,et~ one % the finest coll OF modern French
pictures thc world aud her other objects are sand to
bye bceu accumulated with equal gnert and sagac
iy Il but yesterday ti at tuo ate Mr. samuei
Ward universally known ds Uncle SAN - WAS sun
,nsel 10 m best. II not the only amateur arf-crc
In the United states, and now at a bound the great
country which he was born has ascended the front
RANK among art-lOving nations