New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-11
no ONE SEEMS TO WANr TIE PICTURES.
THE DUQUE. DE DURCAL's PAINTINGS SIGHTED
BY THE DEALERS AND PASSED BY
TIE AUCY ONEER.

The first sale Of the paintings by the Old masters
owned by the Duque de Durcal, about which much
has been written Of late. took place al Chckering Hail
last evening. The adverse criticism which has ap-
peared IN the daily papers and the suspicion cast
upon the genuncness Of the works Of art exercised
great influence upon the success Of the sale Of
the smallest gatherings which has attended picture
sale this winter present One looked IN vain
for the well known faces which usually grace such
assemblies. In fact about ne only expert Who could
be found after a careful seafTh Thomas b. Clarke
1t apparent from the opening Of the sale that few
big bids would be made. The beginning was III
auspici0us Tie people showed tSce enthusiasm
They We're not buyers. They seemed 10 be persons
whom curiosity had drawn, and not a 1--we Of art or
desire to add to collections in their galleries IN
fact the sale was fiat failure.
There were dfty-ive pictures offered for sale, and
only seventeen Of them sold, the t.'al proceeds
being 1882. Only two picturesque 'Muhllo and
a Wild Boar Hunt" by Franz snyders-wcre ap-
Vlauded when they put up. The upset price
the first $4,000 and 10000 the second
neither of which prices bid. Tic first picture
put up The Entry into Jerusalem by Fran
cisco Antolnez de saTsbia, Tor which $3.50 was the
first and only bid j. &. Randolph getting t for that
price. The TAXING Down from the Cross by the
same artist. was started at 500 by Mr.. Randolph,
some one else bid $3.50 and Mr.. Randolph go It for
$500 Tie Virgin and TIE Child,7 also By the
artist then put up, but no one made lid 50 #
finally passed.
The next two pictures both bore tho same nile
&" 4 Drinking Scene" and by Peter de BlOot.
For each OF them 500 was the first and Last bid, and
J. T. Brnkerhof got them q a Portrait by Giuseppe
Bonito, passed without bid The upset price
An Alegnrieal Picture of Music" by John
Breughel announced several days ago $4,000 /;
II reduced to - 900 last night, and there
bidders at that price it passed Portrait Of
a Dominican Friar," by Monzo CanO. started a.
$500. that sum was increased BY So5 bids to $3.50
at which price 1t was sold 10 p. Hermann De Mumm
Of Frankfort Germany Tho next two pictures,
Sketch for Picture Of santa Barbara and The
Virgin and Child both by Ba-toIoInoo Cartucho,
passed without bid
The upset price On The Virgin by Francesca
CardurhO, which was first announced al a. 600 va
reduced last night 10 81 OoU but there Were bid
ders that price and II passed. also ti
next three pictures" FullLength Portrait Of Charles
II and Portrait Of Don John Of Austria by Juan
Carreno de Miranda and " a Bartte scene by Carlo
COppOla. The next, also named \ Battle sccnr.
by the same artist, wa started a. 300. and va,
Knocked down 10 BlaAe.lce a GO. AZ that price. y
saint with Angels rs Maieo tercZo. Tie railing
Down from the Gross BY Do,,o Doss. and " The
Alteration Of the kings, By lean van ESck, were
vas ~ 900 and g. 600 on tie second The com
munion Of The Dying. BY Juan Gavcz. wa -oh 10
Dr {: t. L"r Tor 800 IN" next TX V''ir7 "e o.
passed without bid. Nos. - ana - IN the "a.
They were sold 10 Walter Watson for 300 earH. tae
first bid. The next thie' WE'RE passed and No. 81
" 4 Battle scene 10y AUdrs lLOuc, Was started az
800. and sold for $500 70 De!a Cucva. Who came
I'D with the Duke and with him during H." evei-
ing The other pic lures 500 Teie 9Hr 'cA Tor tHe
Sebastian Munoz, for 800. To +. NJ. &. Graham who
also purchased 4 POrtl ait" 10y the artist for
T+225t A Young Man Cleaning Dog by Fran Won
Mers went 10 A Gibbons for 200: Wreath II
Flowers By Bar0lcmc Perez went TO ii Della tucva
for $3.50; the companion picture wa tou Sht hr \.
GrbbPns for S175. I" The Street Of the AmarsTa' by
Jose Rlbera 10 A. GallOp for 500 A PprrrIii
by Friedrich Z. Rcnhold, sold ~ @ CaHbr'lcus
for $l75.