Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-28
Art Notes.

statuettes. gold and silver rings and brace
lots, necklaces. and chains has been made
in France at Chalain dUzore. The latest
coins are those of the Emperor Gallienus.
so the treasure Is supposed to have been
buried about A. ID. 200.
A statue of lie Verrier the astronomer.
modelled by Chapu, has been unveiled in
the Honor Court of the Paris observatory
/ IL shows tho astronomer leaning over a
celestial sphere as he stands, and lie in
white marble, az also Is the pedestal, on
which one reads only u. j. j. lie Werner,
1sll-1s17."
The treasure found by peasant recently
at Szilagysomlyo. in Transylvanla, mention
of which was made some time ago, is not
/ the first that comes from the same quarter.
| The so-called Treasure OF Attila" at the
| Imperial Treasury in Vienna was found at
the same place in 1874. The new lind Is
valued at 100000.
A London paper recalls larger sum than
! that which was offered by the representa-
/ tive Of the French Government for the
"Angelus" by Millet, sum bid by the
/ same Government in open sale. IL IS the
/ Sl17, 200 given in 1852 for a " Conception of
| the Virgin by MurillO in the collection of
/ Marshal SOult. The largest sum yet paid
/ for painting is $3.50 900, spent on one by
/ Raphael for the National Gallery, London.
A scholarship in Paris, called the Henri
! Lehman prize, which brings $500 to the
winner. has gone abegging this year. no
one Offering TO compete for it. The artist
must be under twenty-five years and must
have produced within three years prior TO
the date Of competition a painting or car
tOon which meets the following curious
demands-namely, that in execution, style,
and composition it shall most elOquently
protest against the decay Of art"
Chill has now large gallery for art ex-
| hibitlOns, museum. and the beginning OF
second. The CHILEAN Government has
begun to give annual supplies to maintain
these establishments, has constituted
Direction dies Beaux Arts like that of
France. and helped to start periodical de-
voted to the fine arts. If the Argentlnes
and Cnilians continue in this line they
, will no longer dispute which shall be-
called the Yankees of South America, for
the Yankees will be loft far behind.
Tho Ne,rs and Courier of Charleston full
inmates against the people who are forever
trying TO tamper with the White House at
Washington on the plea Of Improvement,
new decorations extensions, or the turning
of the building into Offices for national
business. 4 far better plan, this paper sug-
gests. would be 90 authorize the cree
ton Of an editice of some description on
the Potomac fats for tbelemployment of
these artists for all future time. Perhaps
If they We're allowed 10 control such q
building. and to spend their time and the
peoples money IN putting il together and
taking 1t apart and setting 10 up and pull
ing it down. they would feel that they were
earning their salaries in a way and would
let pubic property be-
The provincial French custodian of the |
fine arts is sometimes apers0n of rare merit
Is n subject for comedy. The Lowe is an /
nually depleted of some Gifts superabound- /
Ing pictures by system of distributing /
works Of art TO provincial museums. The I
state does not, it appears, make over these .
works Of art 10 the departments or
cities or to the museums, but continues
TO own them. and merely lends them
subject 20 recall. As matter of fact,
however, they are never called for At f.
Nantes the curators of the museums on +
receiving such gifts or loans proceeded .
10 hang them in an original way. They .
trced them up on the walls without re- /
moving the pictures already in place, thus /
ohscurlng most Of the paintings with /
which the good citizens of Nantes were .
familiar.
In his latest bulletin Mr.. Ruskin deplores /
that politics alone separated him from his .
friend Charles Eliot Norton, and considers /
him entirely out of place " in the dilution /
OF the hot lava and modification of the .
hot ashes Of American character-which /
are overwhelming. borne now on volcanic /
air-the life of Scotland, England, /
France, and Italy.n lie gives Mr. Nor /
ton the highest praise for natural .
gifts, "observant and critical rather /
than imaginative. but with an all-perva- |
ding sympathy and sensibility absolutely |
free from envy. ambition, or coyetOusness. |
| mean cOYetOusness Of beautiful things,
the only sort that is possible to people like |
Charles Norton or me. He gave me his |
best Greek Fortune n precious little |
piece of hyinG marble, with her feet on the /
World, engraved with hexagonM tracery
like a hOneycOmb. We both love its
honey-but best given by each other"
The American Arctitec', of Boston. predicts
that New York will not nave an exhibition
in 1892 owing 10 conflict Of interests. but
suggests that If these can be ncutralzed |
Staten Island would be the best place for
it, access being had by an extension of the
Jersey Central across the Kill Won kull.
d" As for passengers from the North and
East we must remember that the Hudson
river tunnel is expected to be done by that
time. and people who want 10 be transport
ed directly to the fairgrounds could be
taken through il and across the bridge:
while for passengers by water the island
affords innumerable landing-placcs. 50 that
a line Of tcrry-bOats might start from the
foot Of every street in New York ON either
river and convey visitors TO the exhibition
grounds. The AmericGH ArcbUeG appears
to be unaware that Staten Island is already
joined 10 the mainland 10y a bridge across
the Arthur Kull, though another nearer 10
New Brighton would be more convenient
for city trains.
A fine portrait Of Louis Jacques MandG
I !.
owe much tor pcrpetuating their features
in the daguerreotype, Is printed in The Au-
gust HGrDr's NOnt1hJ. IL is a fact that
and painters find the daguerreo-
type better 10 work from than the photo
graph, for the discarded daguerreOtype
far better the true modelling of
the face. The Photograph, on the
other hand. though Of great assist
ance to pOrtrait-painters from the
life, because by its aid they can
seize fine pose and an expression
which may vanish in few moments be-
yond recall, is a dangerous reed TO lean on.
Hardly one portrait-painter in dozen is
able 10 allow for the faulty modelling in
produced by matters of To-
cusing. If the focus is good for one plane
Of the face il IS "A little faulty for another.
Mr.. Champney. the painter, writes the let
ter-press on Fifty Years Of Photography !
Tor which Mr.. kruell has engraved the
Of Dagucrre. The original
IS owned 10y NJ. Abraham Bogardus, the
,
A writer in the Portfolio (lTr Hamerton?). {
considering the essay on the "Laokoon," t
BY leasing, remarks: But outside the
beauties of feeling. association, truth, tone,
,0lor, and light, OF which Lefsing takes no {
recount, there is another perfection |
gnored by him-technical skill. Want /
If practical training blinded him to
hat beauty possessed by the Grecian |
culptors in such an eminent degree. {
The rendering of the flesh, of the long I
endrils of hair, Of thicker or thinner i
iraPeries, paints well put on. long sweep !
lere, blending half tone and light; a crisp /.
ouch there. giving with mastery sim
,licity an effect which less skilful hand
.ould not have rendered with a thousand
abored touches: foreshortened limb, a
Ietsil elaborated, but quietly keeping its
Inc su Observation-Disclosures beautias are "a