Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-10-16
ATTRACTIVE ART.
Description OfSOme of the Beau
tiful Paintings at the st.
Louis Exposition.

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Louis Exposition.
Correspondence OF the Ledger.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Oct. 1O.-I had
the pleasure of an introduction to
Mr.. s. A. Coale, under whose man.
agement we are indebted for the
selection and arrangement of the
pictures. Many of them are taken
from his own private gallery. He
tells me he has been much hamper
ed in his work by the enormous
insurance required, but in spite of
this handicaping, as race horse
men say, he has gotten together
the best art education ever offered
to the public here. Many owners
of valuable paintings refuse to
have them hung for fear of fire and
the danger attending their removal
notably among them the copy of
"Virginia," from the touching old
love story of paul and Virginia"
This is now placed upon a large easel
and attracts everyone. 1t repre-
sents Virginia washed ashore, as
in sight of home, and her lover finds
on her return to her native land she
is one of the victims in the terrible
shipwreck. Infancy and Old
Age," the two extremes of life.
The young face is pressed loving y
against the elder, while the
wrlnkled and aged is full of be-
nevolence and goodness. The
young face is full of that innocent
beauty which belongs to life's
earliest years. The little one has
clasped her grandmother securely
in her embrace and the subject,
"I'll take care of you," suggests
all the better feelings of the heart.
The work is by a Scotch painter
who has admirably succeeded in
portraying sympathy, pathos and
naturalness.
"The Prodigal Son." that divine
story of the beauty of forgiveness.
The abject misery of the prodigal,
the tattered garments, the shoeless
feet, the supplicating face with it's
eager questioning look, tell the
story of extravigance and then
starvation. I wish every youth
in the land could see this picture;
this confession of sin and promis-
ed atonement. The work is by a
French artist who paints scriptural
scenes with wonderful power.
Here IS a head, a gem of divinish
art. Is it Ceres7 Is it Diana? From
the softly rounded cheek,
the pou'ing lips, the blind fold
ed eyes and dainty culver of bow
and arrow we recognize Cupid
the same Cupid who has .meddled
with love matches from the days of
Rachel and Jacob down.
"Sunset in the Tropics" One
by one the stars look down and
shine upon the scene. Stars, bril-
liant and beautiful, and in the dis
lance the glorious Southern Cross
sheds its magnificent rays upon
the gathering gloom of a closing
day. Bright winged birds hover
near, with plumage, such as is only
seen in that far off Southern land.
A simple pathetic home scene,
which has won for its author last
ing popularity, is entitled, "Grand-
mas Birthday" Daintily dressed
little children carrying presents to
an aged figure, whose wrinkled
face Is a study. 1t is loaned from
the private collection of Mr.. Adolf
plus Busch Of this city.
One of the works of greatest in
terest to visitors as we'll as great
est intrinsic value in the whole
collection is 'Boar Hounds In full
cry" The artist is said to equal
Landseer in painting animal life.
It belongs to a gentleman in Lon
DON. 1t is the next in size to
Munkacsy's Mozart,aud is most at
tractive to G ntlemen who are best
able to discern its various points of
beauty.
A painting most attractive to
visitors is from Mr.. Coale's home
gallery, all exact portrait of the
great French actress, Sarah Bern
hardt, i'll her famous character of
Mistress Clarkson.
Leading in the collection of
landscape painting, of course,
stands pre-eminent the works of
Rosa Bonheur, the greatest of liv-
ing female cattle painters. Let no
one who visits the Exposition fail
to feast their eyes, as we'll as their
intellectual senses, on her sheep
scens in the east gallery.
A work of great value and the
property of Mr.. O'Fallon, of this
CITY, il called ssThe Sisters" The