Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-19
ART NOTES.

Admiral Kimberly is clever water
color artist.
Franz Lenbach, the painter, has lately
appeared as plaintiff in divorce suit.
Springfield, Mass, has nucleus of an
art museum given to her by wealthy
citizen.
The E. B. Croker Art Gallery, owned
by Sacramento, was the first in the United
States to open on Sundays.
By actual count 1896 works of art or
otherwise were offered to the London
Academy last month for exhibition at the
annual show.
An Omaha paper on the first exhibition
of pictures by the Western Art Associa-
ton: " 1t means that taste for the beau
tiful is growing-and that is better than
forty miles of new pavement"
Picture sales are not in favor with for
tune this year. A sale at Christie, Man
son & Woods famous shop in London was
postponed the other day on the very con-
venient plea that the fog was too dense to
see well.
The right to sell pictures of the Eifel
Tower at the exposition in Paris was
sold to one Jaluzot, who notified vendors
of Autographs, chromos, photographs,
prints and models of the huge structure
that they must pay him royalty.
The Rembrandt Club of BROOKLYN
opened last week in Brooklyn an exhibit
ton of fine pictures lent by members and
others. What is rather remarkable for the
City of Churches is the fact that the exhi-
bitibn will remain open on Sundays as we'll
as week days.
The Inauguration bronze medals cast
from the design by ST. Gaudens were sold
j for 81 apiece at the exhibition of Wash
| ington relics at the opera house. This
large and beautiful medal, whether framed
for the wall or disposed on small wooden
rest for the table, will always be the most
indestructible souvenir of the centenary.
The New York Metropolitan Museum
sent the following paintings to Paris !:
Joan of Arc" by Bastien Lepage, given
under peculiar circumstances to the mu-
scum by Erwin Davis; IA Quartet" the
large Spanish musicians painting by Dam
nat, and a fine landscape by Swain Clifford,
which won prize in prize fund exhibit
ton.
The tenth annual Convention of the
Central Illinois Art Union, composed of
art societies in Bloomington, Springfield,
Decatur, Lincoln, Champaign, Jackson
vile and Carlinviile, assembled at Bloom
ington May Sth, and remained until May
10th, inclusive. Nearly 100 persons were
present and guests Of the people of Bloom
ington.
H. O. Havemeyer has given to the Met
ropolitan Museum, New York, a portrait of
Alexander Won Humboldt, painted in 1859
by Julius Schrader of Munich for Albert
Havemeyer. Few famous Europeans bet
ter deserve place in an American gallery
than the distinguished German who trav-
eled many years in South and North
America and discovered a thousand curious
and valuable facts overlooked by Ameri-
cans themselves. The picture turned up
the other day in sale and was secured
by Mr.. Havemeyer for S2,250.
The jurymen appointed to select pictures
by American artists in Paris for the expo
sition are said to have adopted system
which has already been attacked but has
many excellent points. Instead of asking
the artists to send their contributions to a
certain place where the jury was assem-
bled, they went in body from studio to
stndio and selected the canvasses that
pleased them best. The advantages of
this procedure are that paintings which
are really the finest may be withheld by
an artist from some whim, or because he
does not know what his best work is, and
that the visit itself is more of compli-
ment than the usual summons to send in
work.
Those who remember the death of 'tSar-
danapalus," very large canvas by Della
croix, shown some years ago at loan ex-
hibition in New York, may be interested
to learn that it was sold at the Hotel
Druot, last month, for $4,000. A small.
but good Gerome, Hounds at a Fountain
exhibited at the same time, brought only
500, and Carolus Duran bought in the
portrait that he painted of Gustave Dore
for $500. In the general slaughter two
fine Rousseau landscapes, Morning" and
Evening" went for 81, 800 apiece. These
pictures were part of a gallery of thirty
two belonging to Mr.. Duncan, of London
| The pieces show that even in the central
market for painting great bargains can be
had under certain circumstances.
A highly curious document has been
discovered by Mr.. Flinders Petrie in
Egypt, being no other than than the menu
of banquet served up to the SKA" or
spirit that guarded the corpse of an Egyp-
tian Princess who lived about $500 B. c.
In one sense the menu was also the ban
quet itself, because when the article thought
of as appropriate to the "ka' was depicted.
and its name written beside it in hiero1'
glyphs, the AKA" was supposed to receive
the same pleasure that a living person
gets from dish of food. According to the,
account given to the London Times the
Princess was Ptahnefru,. daughter of
smenemhat ILL.,, her name signifying
''the PROJECTIONS of" Ptah. one of the nu1
merous gods of Egypt. The pyramid of
her father lies in the Fayoum district
The document weighs about four hun.
bred pounds, consists of an elaborated
slab, has an inscription all about it, and Isl
covered in low relief with carvings repre-
senting about eighty different kinds Of
meats, cakes, wines. etc. "There is a flake
off one corner of the block" writes Mr..
Petrie, "but it is otherwise as perfect as
the day when it was first engraved. 1t is
a lovely monument; new in its details, and
new as to the Princess whom it commence
rates."