New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-12
rHH SEoRE7AN COLLECTION.

sg1ArArJo6UK OF THE sECRErAN COLLECTION.
Edition % Laxs. Illastrated. Folio. pp, ISL
81 EewtYcrk: Boussod, Valedon q 90.
Hbe expected edition de Iuxsr Of the catalogue
# do ssoresan collection has been published aud We
sr,,d fhat American amateurs have been favored with
an EDITION. with English text Thero may have been
other Ans catalogues OF French German collections
with text specially written and translated for our
hspsnt bat we do not recall at present, and the
spcriaI appeal made In this case Is interesting
Illustration the dependence of French art upon the
Afuefcan market OF tho secretan collection itself
our readers already have some knowledge They have
been enabled to follow the course OF Partisan gossip
Tor fae last few years Some Of them will remember
me appearances of De Foer hey and NJ Secretan some
ION Years since as interchangeable picture buyers Not
Iapa ago the collection OF Do Foer Boy scattered
By the auconeer. and now the collection of NJ Secre
tan meets the Same fate. fatc, we may add, which
has been confidently predicted. Three or four years
AGO. when the Copper King" seriously embar.
rassed hts collection almost besieged by picture
dealers and amateurs. But the crisis passed. NJ.
secretzn was able 10 refuse Americans ofor OF
100000 for Mfllets "Angelus" and II was not
until the troubles OF the "societe des Metaux' began
and the @oopper trust' seemed likely to fall Of its
own weight that all pariso again occupied
itself with the fate OF the Secrutan collection.
But tho dealers. those shrewd hunters of
pictures, who shave ambassadors at every
capitai,s who are intimately acquainted with every
modern collection, indeed almost with every I" I'M
porznt' modern picture and who follow the financial
fortupes OF every owner of vaiube collection these
persistent gentlemen never permitted themselves to
lose sight OF the galleries Of NJ secretan. For a
time and only a few months back, when American
syndicate offering million and half for the
whole collection, IL said that the pictures
being sold at private sale, but this undoubtedly
an orror Baron Hirsch is understood to have pro-
tecteds the collection and assured that IL
IS TO be sold en- bloc, and nnd that the managers
.nSn nnc % ValQ a n Hrbn
hssy to cover the world with their agencies and NJ.
Charles sedelneyer, whose uprosrious American cam
pssn with Munkacsy will not soon be forgotten.
Boassod vaIadon & Co. are, Of course the pub
fishers Of tbs catalogue, and sample copy OF the
American edition may be seen by those specially
interested at the New. York gallery. No. 300 Fifth
ave. This catalogue is sumptuons volume Of Isl
pages, the page measuring very nearly ls by 10
inches. It is volume of great size and dignity OF
aspect,z Us BELTS . picture sale comparable TO none
since the sale Of the DemldoH collection. The text
which is apt TO be inconsiderahle part OF these
publications, Is by writer usually brilliant ana sym
pathetic, NJ Albert Wolf, but those who have read
bis recent SFiearo' articles viii note occasional
traces of constraint. NJ. Wolf addresses himself TO
Americans In quite another vein from that Oh MS
recent feuiileton, when he proposed 10 corral inc
American milhonsIres brought 10 Paris by the secreh
sale, and to put them on exhibition Tor the dement,
Of charity And again NJ. Wolf expresses much
~
Iector than he recorded in the unres trained pages
y. Figaro the irreverent Nevertheless there Is
M ouestIon of the merit Of the Secrctan coiecuon'
and A. VOLTS genuine enthusiasm over these superb
examples of old and modern art Will be sure 10 nave
a sympathetic reception. 1t is not strange het |
Partisan artists complain that the EXPOSITION anu |
salon are over-shsdowed by the wonderful CONGO
ion found within hafscore OF years by the ambitious
copper king now fallen from his high estate
gus with duo recognition Of NJ VOLTS literary art
xbch rs not wholly hidden beneath the extreme BAD
ness Of the English version we must ADMIT mat INC
lIustraons form the chief attrse ton Of the splendid
editions de luxe OF catalogues which compete for
he favor of amateurs year after year. 1t VIII sur
svtse M one 10 find that the publishers. the sue
,exsers az Godpii and Of the Goupil photo
,rayuro PROCESS have selected phoogravure Tor the
epfoductlon OF the Secrotan pictures This Is con-
sey fhe finest Of these processes, and II has long
,esn recognized that the best results have been OBJ
aimed By the skilled workmen and engrayer OF this
,ouss In this volume each illustration Is fuh-
,are plate Those who understand the difference
,ctween photograyure and ordinary process WORK.
hs difference In cost as wel quality, VIII appre-
late the size and consequence OF THO gallery OF
,hotograyures There arc eighty three modern oil
,aiutfnSs and all, we believe. are reproduced Ihefe
ire eighteen modern water-ooiors and drawings, and
,pety examples Of the old masters, and ali the
os,,fes of consequence reproduced. This is a
ec,ded advance upon the United number OF hSsty
schngs or comparatively inadequate process prints
which we have had In many foreign eata-
,gues The pictures OF this collection deserve all the
onors that can be paid by the catalogue maker.
Imong tho old masters reproduced, Is Franz Halss
Man with the Cane' than which no picture better
xhfbts the freedom and vIgor OF the masters brush
We may accept the dctum OF NJ. Wolff = know
70 better Dc Keyser," continues the same guide. nor
my more serene Van der Nicer Of Delft than the LADY
ns serSant's Rembrandps Man m Armor.n Paul
potters Horses Of the Stakeholder" ostades Inter
,,pted oames and Tcnier's Five Senses" arc among
he CID masters shown In photogravuroS. while among
ne illustrations Of modern art we find Rousseaus
su,ous Charcoal Burners Hut,1 MoIssoneir's CUR
sssefss Millet's @Apgeus" most famous Of ALL De-
amps's Expert Monkeys" Tryon's @Fording the
AVERT Courbet's Roe Cover called by Wolff his
,r1ncfpsI work; Biessoners Players at Bowls at An
ibes examples of the classical art Of ngcs and the
ssscnaie pomant5cism of Deacroix. Tyon's Fording
he Rivets Dsubigpy's Return of the Flock" DIaz's
Venus ana Adonis,' and other paintings which win
q hoy fought for when the battle opens in the Paris
sles galleries in July.
The pbotograyures are printed in tinted inks aud 10
many cases the workmanship has been satisfactory
,uf there arc Others which show tho turbidy and in
of so much Photographic work, without the
ON of comparatively correct tones and &C
.irats definition possible In photograyure II must DO
ala that the plates, whole, do not represent the
est results accomplished by the process owned By this
ouse This has probably been due to enforced haste
! preparing the catalogue We may infer that haste
Us responsible for the passing Of Typographical errors
ire sopportany,s and "valonr" for "value' IN the
,trcductlon and for the uneven printing Of some Of
he plates Here in New-york we have published
catalogues superior to this IN purely mechanical feat
res but some Of the plates before us arc reminder
hsf Paris Is stiIl the home of the photogTavure'