The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-03-03
BrOadbrim'S New york Letter.


American Art Galleries, have laid New |
York under an obligation that it would be
difficult to estimate. 1t is not that their
present collection of pictures so far sur
passes any of those which have preceded it,
or that it has any marked phenomenal
works of art, but for general excellence it
is of the very highest standard through and
through.
am not one who mourns the continual
breaking up of magnificent and valuable
collec tions. The opportunity of studying
these splendid works is in itself an educat
ion, and it is safe to say that hundred
people have seen and enjoyed them in the
American Art Galleries to the one who
ever saw them in the hands of the original
possessors. When the great Morgan col
lection was on exhibition there the Gallery
was visited by at least 100, 900 people. Dur
ing Mrs. Morgan's life it is doubtful If they
we're ever seen by 1000. The Stewart
collection while in Stewards possession
might just as we'll have been in the Cata-
combs, but when placed on sale by Messrs.
Kirby & Sutton IL attracted q multitude
who received more pleasure and profit from
an hours visit to the American Art
Galleries than Mr.. Stewart or his friends
had received in all their lives. The same
may be said of the Seney collection and
numerous others which have been entrust-
ed to the care of these enterprising gentle
men. And it is not only the fact that they
have had valuable collections of pictures
acknowledged medium between the strug-
Cling artist and the wealthy purchaser, Sc
curing for the artist the reward for his
genius which he would have found it
difficult to have obtained without their
aid, and for the purchaser the full value of
his money measured by the highest canons
of art. 1t is this absolute honesty of pur-
pose between the buyer and seller which
has given them their present business
standing, and this, connected with the fact
of their nice discrimination in the selection
} of subjects which seeks out the pure, the
, grand, the educational, the instructive,
: have made the American Art Galleries one
J Of the most delightful places to spend an
3 hour to be found in the city.
: In the present collection there are 26e
| pictures, every one of which comes up to a
: very high standard of art. In the briei
, space that am compelled to give to eact
t subject it is almost impossible to particular
y ize, but Feeding Time," by Van Marcke
: "The Orphans" by Lafon, and the "Arres
o of Charlotte Corday" seem to be especial.
: worthy of mention. There is also por
s trait of Charlotte Corday so different from
anything ever seen or conceived of her OIL
t this side of the Atlantic that, II it is true Il
n the life, 1t completely reYolutionizes al
o preconceiYed ideas In regard to this re
2 markable heroine. The face is not un
y comely, but II lacks the lines of fierce de
n termination, which we have always associ
y ated with Charlotte Corday. The face tina
l. lives in our memory of the heroic ASSASSIN
d1 OF Marat was cold as ice and fixed as fate
d Measured by any standard, the feature
sr were beautiful; yet 1t was kind of Satani
s beauty that man fears, but never loyes
d The portrait ON exhibition is by Edouar
" Richter of Paris, and the simple fact of Il
a belonging to William Schaus, the celebrate
l. art connoisseur, gives 1t stamp of wort
Dr. equal to the goldsmith's mark on sterlln
St silver. But It is the face of human, SCI
K. suous woman. Instead of the thin, fri
r. lip and hard knit brow, the lips are fu
', and generous, intended more ior love tina
e. hate, and looking on that face, 1t is iu
IT. possible to believe that its owner coul
H. ever have nerved herself to become Il
es executioner Of even such a hateful tyral
To- as Marat.
n The Wine faster, the Miser and Nor
We In a wine cellar, are works of superlati'
It. excellence. And while not in the gener
te sale, observed on an easel landscape
lie the veteran artist George Innes, viii,
er twenty-five or fifty years hence viii bril-
or its weight in gold. II is true that from Il
nd present collection there is an absence
zee great names, for which, in many instanc
lse the art world has paid so much ana Fl
as quently got so little; but this collectio
nd while perhaps lacking the imperial STAN
I'll is rich in golden promise, and here we s
re- the hopeful work Of those who At no d
to tant day are to gil the vacant places
me Markart. Munkaesy, DeNeuville, Nelson's
so Diaz, Jules Breton, Carrot, Beaugeron a
lil- the other names which art has cononiz
ab- in the present generation. Hans Markar
nd Diana's Hunting Party is still TO be Sc
ate there, and adds to the beauty and attra
) It iYeAess Of the exhibition. In q few ds
the the entire collection except the last nam
nd work will pass under the merclless hAmu
,he Of the auctloneer, and we hope that sol