New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-04-14
THE CHRONICLE OF ARTS
EXHIBITIONS AND OTHER TOPICS
THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATIONS COLLECTION
COUNT DAULBYs OLD MAsTERs-JAPAN.
EsE PRINTs-soME PORTRAITS OF
HISTORIC AMERICANS.

COUNT DAULBY's OLD MAsTERs-JAPAN.
EsE PRINTs-soME PORTRAITS or
HISTORIC AMERICANS
The artistic calendar for the week is a full and
| good one. At the Fine Arts Building the show OF
| the Society OF American Artists continues and the
| Academy also remains open. The Vierge collection
at the Keppel gallery which has already been dis.
cussed in this place, will be view throughout the
week. and there are one two other minor shows
Of interest touched upon more fully below. To the
already ample list Of exhibitions there is added one
more which promises to eclipse the rest so far az
magnitude goes. The American Art Association has
at last put its possessions into shape for the sale
recently announced. and press view OF the col
| lection will be held tomorrow. There will be no
reception after the customary fashion, but on Tues
day admission to the galleries will be restricted TO
those presenting their personal cards the door
From the catalogue it is TO be gathered that the
sale will be an affair OF some time. The first ses-
sion takes place on Thursday evening. April 25 at
Chickering Hall, and will be devoted TO modern
pictures Modern and ancient paintings will occupy
| the following evening, and then on the afternoons
of the succeeding Saturday Monday and Tuesday
the auction will ne carried at the galleries OF
the association. Silver, sculpture. furniture, old
brass and other metal work rugs, fabrics and East
ern book among the objects TO be offered.
The most important the old paintings These
include some interesting examples OF Van Dyck.
Gozzo Moro. Torbus and a handful Of others The
collection turns out to be less extensive than at
first supposed, the catalogue containing only half
many numbers were expected. but 1t nevertheless
embraces much work Of Importance to amateurs in
NewYork.
There is a market for old masters in York,
and many efforts are made TO keep it supplied. but
few OF these efforts worthy Of attentive
sderation. The attempt made at the Macbeth gal
lery by Count D'Aulby belongs in the larger
CORY 1t promises much and gives little. Count
DAuby attributes his paintings to Titan, Murillo
and other equally eminent masters For the Titan
1t is said that he asks the modest OF $4,000.
The Murillo he would sell for twice that amount.
These figures raise a pretty question OF commercial
values. but II Is intended here TO touch upon the
artistic significance of the pictures alone. They
fall far below the expectations aroused by the hyper
bole of the catalogue. Under the title of the Murio
this The proprietor of this paint
ing challenges the world in asserting it to be ab-
solutely the finest Of Murillos existing works" OF
the overheated canvas given to Nelazquez. painter
who his is remarkable for good color. 1t Is
said that 1T "is strong example Of the master at
his best" The Diana at the Bath which is
crbed to Titan Is not merely said to be by him.
but it is added that it lis considered by many
connoisseurs the second chef-d oeuvre Of this
great ideallst.' And SO it goes. II the catalogue
were to be believed, We have in the ID Auby coll
ancient brought this country As a
matter OF fact it is remarkable for medocrity. To
witt the recoectons OF Italian Spanish and French
es tn to an GO isp pad Snd aecd
beside the familiar masterpieces OF the painter. The
to HAS. Rembrandt ard Lancret are Of equal Value
We would be glad to welcome Count D'Aulbys
thinks them to be himself but there seems to US to be
and their eulogy. The pictures remain on view at
the Macbeth gallery for a month or more.
Regre, that the Japanese prints at the Union
League Club will not be visible 10 the public after
tomorrow Is somewhat modified by the arrival OF a
similar coecton'at the Wdnderch gallery. There,
the pictorial art OF the Orient Is illustrated in a
large asembiage OF prints, which amateurs are
strongly urged TO study. No strict chronological
plan has been followed in the hanging OF the pict-
but the primitive artists. who worked in black
ana white alone grouped place in tho
and the dates of the remaining specimens
easily be obtained. The collection adequately
the wide field II essays TO illustrate. From these
closely covered walls you learn the range OF the
japanese artists. their animation. their human in
terest their naIvete, and above all their pictorial
felicity. their charm OF color and theft manual skill.
II s curious to observe the softess the tenderness
OF their color maintained in spite OF the atness OF
their tnts. And defective their conception OF
form may 10 Western eyes, they are
nevertheless irresistible in certain conventionally
veracious way. Your Oriental draushtsman may DO
grotesque. fantastic unscientihc. and arbitrary in
his perspective beyond the utmost license Of our
tradition but he is draughtsman Just the same
and his delightful line acccmpshes everything he
wishes It 10. making his figures to live, their back
grounds 10 have reality. when he most seems
10 be living in a world OF absolute dream. Hokusai
looks out upon with eyes whose functions
would seem almost different from ours, unlike our
naturalsm is the landscape habit OF this distn-
gushed painter But for all his formality. for ali
his strange impressionsm. N is still genuine land
takab.e The show at the Wunderlch gallery brings
forward the sion for fadindeed, the japanese
FAD s already under way-but there is strictly speak
ing not element in Japanese art which appeals 10
frivolous instincts The point Of view reflected IN
the work Is unique and fascinating among raclaI
points OF view. The style is sincere. the idea is al
ways interesting and often full Of charm The color
shows more good taste 10 the square inch than all
the nations OF Europe together could demonstrate.
BE- hoped that the serious side OF the exhibit
ton will be taken seriously. Nothing Ike Il has APP
peared here in the past. The splendid display az
the Union League Club, which noticed In The
Tribune OF Friday. lasts such short time that It's
influence IL sadly curtaied and the general public
does feel II at all This more permanent exhoi-
leries will remain filled with the prints for month.
and during that time II ought TO Yield pleasure ana
instruction to thousands OF people
simultaneously with the Japanese prints there are
shown at the wdnderlch gallery five or six photo
gravures and etchngs Of portraits OF figures eele-
brated In our history. Gilbert Stuarts Washington.
the Athenaeum picture. stands at the head, ana
there are striking portraits OF John Jay, Prescott.
Washington. The publishers OF the Plates nave used
an excellent process and the little group OF portraits
has an artistic character as well as an HISTORICAL
interest.
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