Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-10
ART NOTES.

veiled at Richmond December 9TH.
Mcdonald, the sculptor, who made
death mask of Chief Justice Waite, is now
engaged upon the late iurist's bust.
Theodore Watts, of London, will pub
lish an article on the many portraits Of
Tennyson painted, carved and photo
graphed.
The tiles, pottery and stained glass win
dows at Memorial Hall, Philadelphia, are
the best and most original work in this
great display of industrial art.
Mr.. Whistler will have an exhibition
next February in the galleries of the Fine
art Society, London. 1t will include
etchings and pastels, as well as oils.
In the ceramic display at Memorial
Hall, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, is a
dinner set of $40 pieces, the exhibit OF
Phil J. Walsh. The decoration is in royal
Worcester representing specimens of Amer
ican flowers. 1t is one Of the handsomest
sets at the exhibition and valued at $4,000.
Millet's "L'Angelus" arrived in New
York Sunday The American Art Asso-
citation, its owner, hopes to enter the pict-
ure free of duty in bond for six months
without sale 1t will be shown in Boston
and Chicago and other cities as well as in
the notable exhibition which is to include
it in New York.
One of the most noted paintings in the
annual exhibition Of art at Munich this
year is "The Flagellants," by Karl Mari, a
! painter well and favorably known in the
! United States. 1t is an immense canvas
over thirty feet long, and shows the street
of an Italian town during the middle ages.
! A procession of men and women, some of
them half naked, pass down the street in
! hicting on themselves blows with whips or
showing by their blood-stained garments
that they have caused themselves to be
beaten to the last extremity. Some of
there ecstatics rush into church while
the populace makes way for them; others
appear to be using the excitement for their
own selfish ends This picture will be
shown next month in New York by Mr..
Il. ?. Hughes, who hopes to find buyer
for it. An Augsburg paper says of it:
'This is the only picture which enters pro-
] foundly into the history of civilization and
brings before our eyes an astonishing
phenomenon of the Christianity of the
middle ages. The street facades against
which the procession is seen is by itself a
masterpiece in the painting of architect
ure." The Munich art critic, Pecht, de-
votes long series of remarks to the pic
ture, and regards it as one of the import
ant products of the times.
A story comes from Japan of the re-
covery of a picture painted over 1000
years ago lin S59 A. d. by Kanaoka, the
father Of japanese pictorial art. 1t repre-
sents figure about two feet high, every
detail being finished with the elaborate
care lavished by the old japanese masters
on their choicest works According to the
description in the Japan Nal, the only
parts of the body exposed were the face,
arms and feet, but the lines and colorings
of these portions plainly showed the hand
of a great expert. "The flesh was firm
the contours were delicate, and the color
ing, though centuries had passed since the
time of its application, remained mellow
if not fresh. But it was in the treatment
, of the drapery that the artist had
put forth his great strength. The
, folds hung with indescrible softness and
, fidelity to nature, and thesplendid brocades
of the priestly vestments were depicted SC
inimitably that one felt inclined to cares
, the soft, rich stuff" The picture in the
course of ages passed into the hands of the
, famous artist, Keno Montonobu, and on hi:
death in 1859 it was among the treasures he
: left behind with a certificate from him that
: it was the work of the great kanaoka
What happened to it after Monotobu':
. death is not known, but quite recently il
was found in pawnshop in Toxic. II
, vas purchased by dealer and was offered
for sale abroad, but efforts which were
made to prevent this remarkable work
from going out of the country were sue
cessful, and it was purchased by veal
thx japanese merchant, who intends pre-
senting it to the National Museum. Il
has been said by experts that the gent
inc works of Kanaoka now extant may bt
counted on the fingers Of one hand
and that the whereabouts of each is vel
known. DR.. Anderson, in his recent wori
on japanese pictorial arts, says of Kama
Okla that, as student of the great Chi
nese masters of the Tung dynasty, he mos
probably adopted their teaching, with un
t important notifications suggested by Co
rean example, and hence must be regarded
as the apostle of an ancient aud foreign
art, rather than the originator of native
school"