Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-29
ART NOTES.


woman.-Bab.
ART NOTES.
All the paintings, ancient books, silver
and bric-a-brac belonging to the late S. L
NJ. Barlow will be sold in January.
Machinery Hall at the Paris Universe
Exposition will be used as cavalry ridins
school, while the Palace of Art will be
employed as Museum of the Decorative
Arts.
Canada is about to follow the bad ex
ample set her by the United States anc
put tax on art and literature at her ports
of entry. Representatives OF the Graphi,
and Illustrated London Ne,rs have protested
against this duty.
An etching of the campus at Yale before
the recitation building was erected and the
famous fence corner disappeared, is pub
lished by Frederick A. Stokes q Brother
1t is by Robert r. Wiseman, and shows
the old brick row behind the lines of elms
sacrificed for the new building.
Among the French artists known here
who have received the first grade of the
Legion of Honor this year are Renouf, the
! younger Meissonier, Lerolle, Jacquet, and
Aubert. There were 400 places to fill and
1900 claimants. The Commissioner Gen.
eral left the distribution of these honors
to the Presidents of the several groups into
which the art exhibits were divided.
The presents made by republics to other
republics have been increased lately by a
peculiar gift, wrought in gold and sill
yer, which comes from one of the Mexican
States to the President of France. 1t is a
monumental object, embodying the French
Revolution of 1889, and is wrought of gold
and silver taken from the mines of Guer-
rero. The jewellers are Indians of the town
of Chilapas.
In its pursuit of the unfortunate NJ
Antonin Proust, the art journal IArt con-
lus" and everybody connected with it
Proust, it says, was thrown into a cruel
embarrassment by his ''crazy vanity" and
the speculative association paid an "idiotic
price" for the picture. UArt very rightly
characterizes as foolish canard a story
current in Paris that the United States
customs made an exception to its rules in
admitting this particular canvas under
bond.
Prince Victor of Hohenlohe- Langen-
burg is a sculptor whose lines are fallen in
pleasant places. By grace of Queen Vic
toria he holds the position of Governor ot
the Round Tower at Windsor Castle, once
held by Albert, the Prince Consort Prince
Victor has a studio in ST. James Palace,
that quaint little old building in the heart
r T l.. Al, l. Il 4
the Prince of Wales for the Royal College
of Music. He shows him in the mantle OF
Field Marshal, and an attitude which re-
calls the statues of Wellington.
Placentini, the architect of the Palace
of the Fine Arts, on the Via Nazionale, at
Rome, has been commissioned by Mexico
to build the Congressional Palace in Mex
leo City. His plan is classical in general
terms, offering galleries supported by col
onnades, access to which is obtained
through an entrance like an arch of tri-
umph. The main entrance is considerably
in advance of the facade OF the building,
where two smaller entrances, to the right
and left, form with it group bound to-
gether by large columns.
Besides according to Meissonier the dig
nifty of Grande Croix of the Legion of
Honor, and to the sculptor, Paul Dubois,
that of Grand Officer, the French Govern
ment has raised to the rank of Commander
the painters Jules Breton and Carolus Du-
ran, and the sculptors Falguiere and Mer-
Gle, who are executing the monument to
Lafayette for Washington city. The new
Officers are the painters Cain, Cormon,
Duez, Gervez, and Roll; the architects
Chipiez, Foulhaux and De Saint-Marce-
aux the engravers Braquemond and
Roty; the engineer Dartein, who designed
the Pavilion of Public Works; the COM
poser Delibes; the art critic Yriarte, and
the reporter Philippe Gille. All these had
already received the grade of Chevalier.
The November-December issue of the
Americdn antiquarian pictures a smoking
pipe of dark gray slate, in which bowl
and stem are very distinct, which was
found in the Flamenco mine in San Saliva
dor, Central America. Its chief peculi-
arities consist in triple-faced head that
forms the bowl, and scroll carved in re-
lief under the short stem, as if to form
holes for suspension. This pipe has de-
cidedly medern appearance, but Silyanus
Miller attests tlrat he found it twenty-five
feet below the surface among the debris of
the mine, which is a gold mine worked at
the first settlement. Its modern look may
therefore be the result of Spanish influence
without impugning either the accuracy or
the veracity of Mr.. Miller. The British
Museum has triple-faced pipe of the
same stone catalogued as the product of
Esquimaux in Alaska. A short paper is
contributed by A. E. Douglas, who believes
that the pipe is an authentic relic of Cen
trail American Indians prior to the discov-
cry.