New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-15

but still genuine. 1t gives some notion OF what
careful and sensitive students OF nature some OF
the French landscapsts have been. In Mlllet OF
whose work there eight specimens on the walls
1t presents a man of intense feeling, Originality
and power. Its second good feature Is a quantity
of work by contemporary artists who take little
part in their national exhibits. and whose
works, though not masterpieces. are certainly As
interesting as any produced in Paris at this time.
The group of improssonistic pictures. Tor example
does not do their authors fu ustlce nut II affords
some hight on tie characierstlcs Oh MoIe,, Ilsear
10. Renor, Bnsnard. HELEN. Siscy and De1as as
well as upon those OF Manet. the deceased FOUNDER
OF the school And there are paintings by oth"r
men. Cain. Puvis de ChavanntH. Dagnan- BouVe-
ret. Rafaelli and I'IIcrmitte. who are loss at
vcntnrCusv experimental than the lmprcssonlsiS;
but are like them In having lndiVldmahty. ana
STYLES unhurt by contact with the eVeillhg sclel-
fc influences of current French teaching. In the
tonic atmosphere Of the Champs-dc-Mars Salon OF
which the absence from all but few widely
separated corners in the French section has been
noted more than once. There are also several
works hv gifted artists now dead. Henri Regnanlt
and jules Basten-L cpage: there Is beautifully
,Nccutcd composition ly Ingrcs. portrait of
Raphael. Cardinal Bibbcna and lie atters niece:
ND by tn" most conspicuous living exponent of
French academic art. Gcrome. there are two
familiar pieces. "L'Eminencc Grse' and THE
Serpent Charmcr.'
THE OTHER MASTERPIECES
collection the French pictures, which fer one
reason or another it is agreeable and useful to
find there. The three Dutch pictures shown,
work, by Mauvc, ISracs and Jacob Maris. are
equally welcome. So is the unfinished Beach
ut Portci' by Fortunv, an example CT TN"
Npanisl-ltalian school, which is well knowA from
having passed through New-lork auctI IN SAFE,
and 50 j. the "Springtime and Love- of Nj hetti,
the brilliant Ncapotan whose memory Is one
Of the possessions of the Italian school
There are some English pictures hung, ana OF
these, three animal studies by Swan. portrait
Of Joachim by Watts view Of weymouth liaV
by Constable, and. to a very limited extent, me
Reading from Homer by Tademl. wllrn has
for some time been in the Metropolitan Museum
Of Art. are acquisitions 10 the exhibition. 1N
no stretch of the imagination can as much De
laid of tn. pictures which remain, nor an excuse
hc devised for avoiding the most pertinent lucS-
ton How many of even those pictures in the
loan collection to which moro or less direct hnI
favorable alusion has been made are master
pieces strictly speaking, and worthy II appear
under special conditions on the pinnacle OF IN"
exhibition In the collection Of -? pictures
there are lust three whose eligibility Is IN
ruuivocal-thr chief landscapes by torot. Fol
lowing them. TO be admitted almost as freely. bit
with less enthusiasm and sometime. with r'ser-
vatons are nine or ten works by Mlllet, Dupre,
Puvis de Chavannas Ingres. Manet Watts, lroyon
and FOrtunY. VINO masters, even when. As
in the cas-. Of Watts. they are faulty in tech
n1Ie, or, like Fortuny in MS lorilci pictu .'
leave the work incomplete. For the rest we
collection contains a great deal of work winch
il j. good 10 Soc because it is not on view where
il belongs such a. some Of the BarhlZon pictures:
the uprrsSioni,tic studies and the paintings OF
Mchctti. Dagnan-B ouvcr"t and Cazln. II con-
tars grcat deal also which i wholly suprfiuo1s.
Sccon1-ratc pictures by Corot Grcuze, IaSSaert
and Mois>oni'r. First-ratc pictures by men wE3sc
works have cstimablc qualities but are not by
any means masterpieces, pictures ny LrleoNre'
Van Beers Xorn. Carolus-Duran and lh1".
To plais" some Of these men for their positive
and relative value is no more than /. du" them
40 measured expressions of admiration can b'
erudgcd T. Xorn. ~ Dasnan-BOuveret or To
Caolus-Duran 10 set them on pedcstals IN a
plac. apart in another matter. In the t)rlEi-
Ion of tla loan collection, tact. scale, prop T,
ton symmetry. the most elementary rules OF
classification which shogld govern such an enter
prise were. 10 all appearances, ignored uhlnts
o>,lr pigmies. and il il not even seen TO that
the former are always in their best form. The
collection has aimed u put the finishing touch
10 the exhibition. And it has fallen short OF
~ aim in manner that l. incomprchensbH.
For there are collections enough in IN" country
to have yielded such a picked body of ~ strr-
ricccs a. should alone have been hung. If the
owners Of the,. collections dill not care T. lend
their treasures. then tho plan would better have
been ablrdDnc'l. Better masterpieces at all
than pictures Incorporating under that title.