New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-14
THE CHRONICLE OF ARTS.
EXHIBITIONS AND OTHER TOPICS.

FRANCE At THE FAIR-FORfIGN NE"S'
Tho nrincinoI event Of the week will be the open
ing OF the Abncr Harper exhibition, at the f.ilI,
| ,vcnuc Art Galleries on Wednesday. There are ID"
| pictures in the collection, number oil them DS
celebrated Frcnchmen. Mr.. Rangers landscapes IT,
main at the KnOedler gallery. Mr.. Ochtmau Il. '"'
Avery gallery and American water colorS anu e'c''ss
| at the Academy The auction sale OF the fta"S ana
Palig collections will be begun Tuesday eVe"S 'no
old masters being reached on the 10Th The noble
alegorical picture by Puvis dc ChavanneS' Il H'o,
which noticed In The Tribune a fortlisn' "eo -
| still to be enjoyed at the DnrandRue gallery IL
will not be removed until SATURDAY. PERSONS ucHi"o
to see Mr.. Fullcrs beautiful example OF early h"sis"
and later French art mt the Union League Cluo 'I'S
| do 80 any evening this week, on presentation VI
members card The salss at the Academy nave Deeh
few this week but the total has been raised 10 9f'o"'
The death of Mr.. r. Austin Robertson, one Of the
three members OF the American Art Association ana
the necessity Of making settlement with his heiS'
have decided that to wind up its affairs before
the winter Is The associations entire COLLECTION
win be placed exhibition in the galleries IN Madison
square in March, and will be sold at auction in CHECKER
! ing Hall in April II contains paintings. bronzeS
pprcelains lacQucrs enamels, swords. sword guards
and other objects Of art. % the extent OF several
| thou and numbers, Among the paintings IS one
| Rembrandt, the Young Man in Armor7 which was In
tho Donate collection, and aficrward belonged to
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There are six by Millct. an exceptionally large Rous
seau, a magnificent Lion Hunt by DelacroIx from
the Faure collection and typical paintings by Corot,
Dupre Diaz. Troyon. Decamp, and Daubisny besides
eighty odd brOnzes and fourteen pictures 10y Barge.
There IS a group OF four Mcl,,onicrs. The names Of
Ucnncr Cain. Boidnl. Courbct De Nittis, Montcnad,
Monet Rafaelu aud LIlcrmittc II few Of those
which will figure IN the catalogue. Tn" association
states that II will rcorgaihe Immediately after the sale
Of ttc Ini ~ uced
Of the hundredh anniversary Of the discovery Of
America i, portrait ~ Christopher Columbus etched
by Henri Lefort. OF the best pupils Of Fam.ng.
and published by knoedcr a Go. II Is a life sized
portrait based on the painting, by m unknown me-,
ter In the Ministry Of Marine at Madrid. which many
historian, have accepted n more plausible repre-
scntailon Of the great explorer than the famous
Giovl) portrait. tie hussImo. now I'm the Uihz or
any Of the portraits In spain and Italy which claim to
be authentic VI. Lofort calls his plate adaptation
from the Madrid original lie has followed the facial
linz, very closely but las given the head stronger.
dsned and sculpurc,que character. and for tho
he has gone to the archives Of the Biblio
thequc Rationale. where there Is more elab
material thnn is 10 be found in the sixteenth
century painting. II Is vrile. monumental portrait
and presents likeness Of Columbus that IS far morc
Interesting than any witch is generally known - our
public, not excepting that in NJ BrOzk's meretrcious
painting I'm the Metropolitan Muesum Of Art.
proportion Of space which l. be allotted British
art the Chicago Fair with Just the faintest
undercuTent Of doubt 10 whether the Nation might
not have been wi.er IN asking for greater arcI.
England Is 10 have 10000 feet Of space. The
Gazette, takes The pains 10 reduce this terms which
may be understood by the artist who has not u
faculty for figures. and It estimate that there should
tc five galleries each ninety feet long and forty five
feet wide that Is 10 say about a. large n th" main
gallery in the Royal Academy. Four Of these would
De given to oils. the nth, which could be fitted
up with screens to c,lOrs and backand white.
Now # Is thought that this would probably quite
.uHicc- but the French have agreed to ill $1,000
feet Of Iacc and il l. borne In upon The Gazette
that grand opportunity 1, TO hc Offered the foreign
artist at the Fair. not only I'm the present. but In the
future. and that France Is going Ia "eHc II with
greater ecat than any other country. Which IS
not an unreasonable proposition, considering "a" the
circumstances, Another matter for regret IS that no
cngravcr Is N the English art committee, Willie
certain prominent ctchcr Is who ha, always opposed
the hight Of engraving TO representation, either on
a large scale or when it doe, not take the form oi
original work y, reproduction Is the only way IN
which most of painters best work III the lm~i can
c rcproduccd o tine American public" continues The
Gozettc for IL will probably only be In rare Instances
that pictures can be- it bchoovcs both the artists
and the cngravcr that this class OF production Il
not clbowcd out
II T. pot likely that any number OF Amcri ans gave !
n second thought to III. death Of Count ii" Ni"uwer
kcrkc at t.a,aiola in Italy. which waa announced tho
other day yet hi name Is in'cpaIabN connected WIN
collection that Is Of the decpe-t interest 10 u.s. IL 1t
MAJ one DAY be permanently Installed IN ms country
The count WA, superintendent Of the Fine Arts in
France under the Emprr-lt under bis admni'ta-
on that the sum Of 900 francs was paid for Nui1l
lbs ASSUMPTION" he was deprived OF his Office IN
$50 and left Paris for Italy. Before he departed he
sold his pic,u esquc hou," in the Rue NurNo to Mr.
Rigg, Of Washington u. G.. and with II MS extensive
ornory Mr. Hlg,, has added 10 the latter contnu-
ally. IL now contains 10000 Objects ana 1t Is !
rnnked bv expert. among the finest private collections
q, weapon, I'm Europe. Mr. Riggs has expressed his
Intention to leave 1t TO America he'atng between our
Metropolitan Museum Of AT and some Washington in
.tution presumably the Coicorn Gallery. Count de
Nieuwcrkrrle WAS one Of the doycns Of be Academic
dcs Dcanx Arts having been elected in 1853. and was
a very active factor III the French art wo Id prior to
the fall OF the Empire. lie was sculptor Of some
reputation In his day An equestrian statue OF William
the Silent at the Hague; another of Napoleon !. mt
LYONS: buss Of the MarGuise dc Caior', Nine. Con-
mean The Princes, Mu ut and the Princess Mathle. In
,,ho,c noted =, on drawn wildly by Les Con
CONT" he wa, II familiar and imposing figure; and
quantity other works remain To pres rye his memory
A.. dd t the ACE oil eighty tWO ia the midst Of n col
lection of Italian works Of a that Is SAID to BE- unique
Arts, in London talking with much gus'o about
the fortune uf 100000 year winch MIR. Val PrlnS'p
has Inherited through the death of his fathern-hw,
Mr. Frederick Leyland, the owner of the wonderful
house AZ Princes Gntc with IL, priceless paintings by
the Italians Of The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and
and the English pre- aphaelitcs The general publ has
veier interest in The pictures which are expected 10
be sold at Christes this season. though nothing posi-
five is known about their ultimate fate. II Is in this
collection that are gathered together some Of tho
r,~r,t masterpiece, Of Botice. rignor'l GiorgOne.
Giovanni Ecini. Filipino Lipp, Rossctti. Burne
Homes Waits IegrOs and other Of world wide |
fame and If j. In this house that Whistler painted his
prrl' =" Ecacock Room" which Is adorned with an
other worI from his hand, fu!llength por,rllt Of
Mis-, Spal;au. in Japanese cos umr. The exhibition
which Mr. Whistler Is TO hold In London next month
will lie ~ about twenty nOcturnes made the Ihams
in Venice and in Valparaiso at different times, and not
Vtun thcv have set up full Size cast Of The Marslp
nni mo ,ument by Desiderio de setti rano which Is
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