The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-15

type of fair woman the public never
tires of buying and admiring.
Without ever varying his model the
artist only changes the pose and back
ground bit snd his last success is
Judith She is also a prime family
favorite, but if there is any picture
that can be safely said TO hold today
the place once occupied by the Cenci.
it is Richter's Queen Louise 1t is
not. as you perhaps know, portrait
of that famous lady at all, but the art
list Richter's idea of her, still We sell
ii enormously. both in the black ana
white and color and Queen Louise s
nearest rival il the public heart Is
the Countess Potocaka. These are
our steady sellers as we have also a
certain class of religious pictures for
which the demand il always equal TO
our supply.
RELIGIOUS PICTURES.
Precedence of all the Madonnas is
invariably taken by the famous Sis
tine and along about Christmas and
Easter we dispose of hundreds OF
copies Men and women alike prefer
her to any other mother and child. just
as Nanjok's Saint Cecilia has COM
pletely usurped the place once held by
the Mater Doloroso and again. in the
way of popular religious pictures, the
lures of the Saviour, Hoffman S
Christ praying in the garden of
Gethsemane.' is most admired. a
simply expressed sweet sentiment is
what in this line catches the popular
affection. Allegorical treatments no
longer please and a French artist,
Falero, who for years has been paint
ing rather coarse nudes, now finds his
best profits in work of this nature
7 o-d no I nd &c n L
neyed subject with no new treatment
an angel bearing a dead child heaven
ward through the moonlight has been
done before, but the women approve
and admire and buy, just as they dc
Nonnenbruch's Christian Girl
CHEERFUL TASTES.
1t is next to an impossibility. how
ever, to coax them TO the purchase of
a distinctly melancholy subject. They
positively won't consider anything
they think is sad or tragicel. a ship
wreck, or battle view, the Princess in
the Tower, or Mary Stuart hearing her
sentence read. make no appeal to the
popular heart, while any new light on
a pair of lovers always catches the
fancy. But in all this wide field OF
picture making not a single American
name appears. OF the classic masters
Leonardo da Vinci is the leader and
Mona Lisa the picture most fire.
quently asked for, while among Eng
lishmen Sir Frederic Leighton is by
far the most popular.
oh, l can't tell you how TO account
for that, only the big public itself
knows. No more can 1 discover the
cause of the favor etchings find among
all classes. save that etchings are
cheap and they certainly are always
highly refined. A very lovely etching
can be had for S1.5O these days. while
five years ago a good proof easily
brought S25. That is all because OF
the new inexpensive processes of re-
producing thousands, instead of a few
dozens from one plate, and it is
guarantee of improved taste in art
that etchings always find a profitable
market. They also are rated as capt.
tai Christmas gifts, and here you see
is the new method of framing. bent
black iron for this years Christmas
trade, and perhaps you will notice that
gilt mats and the sort of gorgeous
moulding. so acceptable not long since
has been set aside. for in every re-
| spect the public sentiment in art is or
the steady move upward.
FANNY ENDERS.