Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-11-29
ART NOTES.
Gossip About Paintings and the
Patnters

Gossip About Paintings and the
A Rosa Bonheur of 1912, landscape
with six red oxen, was sold recently in
London for $500.
The British Museum has come into
possession of o vase only three inches
high which is considered the finest ex-
ample of the Bo-called Corinthian ware in
the world.
A Paris journal is authority for the
statement that three portraits by Rem
brandt, chief ornaments of the art gal
lery of the Princess de Sagan, have been
sold in this country.
It is said that Charles Waltner re-
ceived the sum of $24, 600 for his etchiUg
of Rembrandt's "Night Watch" which
is perhaps the largest price that has ever
been paid for single plate.
Rosa Bonheur lives quietly in the little
village OF By, near Fontsinebleau, in
France. She is in good health and
paints and sketches for several hours
each day, most of the canvases going to
England.
The great $15 900 landscape by Theo-
dore Rousseau, bought for that sum at
the Secretan sale in Paris for the Cor
coran gallery, is now on private exhibi-
tion in the trustees' room of the gallery
in Washington.
The bond which was given for the free
importation into this country of the
paintings by Vassili Verestchagin having
lapsed, duty was paid the other day on
the entire collection. This means that
the paintings will be dispersed here.
Frank G. Penfold, of Buffalo, is one of
the few American artists who have sold
pictures to the French Government, his
painting "Sad News" which was ex-
hibited at the Paris salon this year, hav.
ing been purchased by the National
museum.
A number of American women artists
are now residing in Paris; some are
studying and others are settled there.
Among them may be mentioned Mrs.
William Frederick McMonnies (nee Mary
Fairchild) of st. Louis and Miss Chris
tine Bredin, of Cincinnati.
The site of the Temple of Dsspoina at
Lykasoura, Greece, has been found. A
colossal torso, three heads OF statues
larger than life, the base of q marble
throne, temple inscriptions, and great
quantity of ex votos in terra. Gotta are in
the find. Many of the latter are effigies
OF rams and serpents.
Jules Dupre, the famous French
painter, who died recently, was born at
Nantes, France, in 1872, the same year
as Rousseau, with whom he has been
identified as one Of the leaders of the re-.
voting painters of 1880, who sought to
overthrow the conventionalities which
had governed the art of painting before
that.
The Los Angeles Public Library is
striving to become Of some use to the
artists in the city. A number of works
on art and artists have recently been
added, and during the last week the
first iDstalment of photographs of cele-
brated works of art was received. These
will be mounted and prepared for use.
There are on exhibition in Paris gall
1ery seven cartoons alleged to be by
Raphael, and from which it is said the
tapestries in the Vatican were executed.
They are supposed to have been done at
the same time as the paper cartoons a,
Hampton Court and South Kensington.
They are painted in distemper and on
canvas.
A. Jacobsen, the richest brewer in
Denmark, has offered to give the Danish
government and the city of Copenhagen
his celebrated collection of statuary and
paintings, on the condition that they