Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-25
ART AND ARTISTS.

| AhI AMI
Kawanabe Kyosai, the greatest contem-
| porary japanese artist, is dead at the age
of 5S years.
The bust of the Hon. Hannibal Hamlin
has arrived from Italy. 1t was modelled
| by Franklin Simmons, native of Maine,
| a sculptor of some note.
Another good gift has come to the Me-
tropolitan Museum of New York in the
shape of the American antiquities owned
by the late S. L. M. Barlow.
A great haul of Roman coins, bronze
statuettes, gold and silver rings and brace
lets, necklaces and chains, has been made
| in France at Chalain d'Uzore. The latest
coins are those of the Emperor Gallienus
SO the treasure is supposed to have been
buried about a. D. 200.
VIM. Edgar Marshall, the well-known
portrait painter, has just finished strik-
ing picture of the late John Gilbert. The
veteran actor, depicted as Sir Anthony Alb
solute, is seated on the yeranda of an old
English country house, while in the back
ground silyery stream reflects the setting
sun.
A statue of LIE Verrier, the astronomer,
modelled by Chapu, has been unveiled in
the Honor Court of the Paris Observatory,
1t shows the astronomer leaning over a
celestial sphere as he stands, and is in
white marble, as also is the pedestal, on
which one reads only U.J. j. LIE Ferriee.
1Sl1-1S17."
At recent meeting of the Academic
des Inscriptions, NJ. Edouard Naville. in
troduced by Professor Maspero, gave an
account of his excavation of the great tenn
pie of Bubastis on behalf of the Egypt Ex-
ploration Fund. He stated that the in
Scriptions found enabled him to fo low the
history of the temple for 5000 years, from
Cheops and Chefset to Ptolemy Epiphanes.
A London paper recalls larger sum
than that which was offered by the represen-
tatiye of the French Government for the
Angelus" by Millet, a sum bid by the
same Government in open sale. II is the
$l17 200 given in 1852 for ''Conception
of the Virgin" by MurilIo in the collection
of Marshal Soult The largest sum vet
paid for a painting is S350,000, spent on
one by Raphael for the National Gallery,
London.
A scholarship in Paris, called the Henri
Lehman prize, which brings 5000 to the
winner, has gone a-begging this year, no
one offering to compete for it. The artist
must be under % years, and must have
produced within three years prior to the
date of competition painting or cartoon
which meets the following curious de-
mands, namely, that in execution, style,
and composition it shall "most eloquently
protest against the decay of art"
Chile has now a large gallery for art ex-
hibitions, a museum, and the beginning OF
a second. The Chilean Government has
begun to give annual supplies to maintain
these establishments, has constituted a
Direction des Beaux Arts" like that OF
France, and helped to start periodical
devoted to the fine arts If the Argentines
and Chiieans continue in this line they will
no longer dispute which shall be called the
Yankees of South America, for the Yam.
KEGS will be left far behind.
There is magnificent road screen in
stone at Nantes, France, which nobody
wants, although it was gift to the eathe-
dral of that town from Henri Quatre. Ii
was removed because its lines and design
were not fitted for the architecture Of the
cathedral, but care was taken to number
each stone and box it carefully. Though
it belonged legally to the French Govern
ment, the Direction des Beaux Arts re-
fused to take charge OF it. Then it was
offered to the museum and to the society
of archaeology, and again to the municipal
fathers. But the ju6e "Henri Quatre''
has met with rebuffs from all these quar-
ters. Here is chance to secure fine bit
of clerical antiquity should America desire
to own it.
The provincial French custodian of the
fine arts is sometimes a person of rare
merit as subject for comedy. The Louvre
is annually depleted of some of its super.
abounding pictures by system of distrib-
uting works OF art to provincial museums
The State does not, it appears, make over
these works of art to the departments or
cities, or to the museums, but continues to
own them, and merely lends them subject
to recall. As matter of fact, however,
they are never called for. At Nantes the
curators Of the museums on receiving such
gifts or loans proceeded to hang them in
an original way. They triced them up
on the walls without removing the pict-
ures already in place, thus obscuring most
of the paintings with which the good citi-
zens of Nantes were familiar
A fine portrait of Louis Jacques Mande
Daguerre, to whom our immediate forbears
owe much for perpetuating their features
IN the daguerreotype, is printed in the
August Harpe's Monthly. 1t is fact that
sculptors and painters find the daguerreo-
type better to work from than the photo
graph, for the discarded daguerreotype
registered far better the true modelling OF
the face. The photograph, on the other
hand, though Of great assistance to portrait
painters from the life, because by its aid
they can seize fine pose and an express
sion which may vanish in few moments
beyond recall, is dangerous reed TO lean
on. Hardly one portrait painter in a
dozen is able to allow for the faulty mod
cling in photographs produced by matters
of focusing. If the focus is good for one
plane of the face, it is little faulty for
another. Mr.. Champney, the painter,
writes the letter-press on Fifty Years of
Photography" for which Mr.. Kruell has
engraved the dsguerreotype of Daguerre.
The original is owned by Abraham Bo-
gardus, the photographer.