The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-03-25
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One hundred and twenty-five paintings, cata-
logued as antique and modern and as belonging
to tho late Sarah NJ. Kimball OF Cleveland, o.,
arc to be sold ut tho Fifth Avenue Auction
Rooms this evening and tomorrow at 8 o'clock.
The catalogue includes such grand names as
Leonardo da vinci, Rembrandt, and Giorgonc,
but not even by the strongest stretch OF the
imagination could the paintings attributed to
them and boldly ticketed on their frames be
thought to have been touched by their brushes.
The Giorgone, for example, Is a copy OF part of
the Fete Champetre In the Louvre, including the
seated nude figure with back turned to the spec.
tator. and the man in crimson playing the lutte.
The Rembrandt, called q portrait Of himself.
Is rather %unkindly. So. too, It is scarcely fair
treatment OF the memory Of Lancret to attribute
to him the scene called "The Skaters and Wat
tcau and Poussin do not fare much better. Mrs.
Kimball, It appears. travelled extensively In
Europe for a number Of years and collected her
pictures with tho intention Of presenting them
TO the proposed art museum at Cleveland. The
museum project has not been realised and the
pictures are to DO sold by order of T. L. John
son, her executor. Buying "old masters" Is q
hazardous business for tho inexpert, and Mrs.
Kimball must have been unusually credulous.
The pictures by the early English painters pro.
sent q better showing than those just men,
toned, although that excellent painter Romney
hardly receives his deserts in the Portrait
OF a Lady and Children which is mado
to represent him. Gainsborough. Lawrence.
Reynolds. and Lely have one or moro works each,
some better than others, but none q capital
work. A nice little Portrait Of Miss Juliana
Hompay," No. 113, by r. J. Lane, who was .
grandnephew Of Gainsborough, Is noticeable,
and there is q pretty little panel, Portrait of
r., o,ofa narphip 70 No IA nf fha arhOol pf
Francois Clouet, whose works, painted under
Henry II. and Francois II. Of France, are well
known to collectors. Among tho pictures by
modern painters there are some excellent or
creditablo examples. A small Meissonier,
Lieutenant Murat," No. 81. Is interesting, and.
Of two Corots, one, though 1t cannot DO
seen by daylight In the gallery, seems
to DO tender and sweet In quality. A
good little picture BY Coignard, q pupil Of
Troyon, is 1.-THE Flock" No. 81, and q color
study by Fortuny. Battle OF Tetuan," No. 81,
Is full and pleasing in color. Florent Wfllems,
the Belgian painter. 10 well represented in the
carefully painted interior, with figures, "A
Last Glance" No. b. By Rossi. the italian.
there Is q picture called Reception at the
Doge's Palace" No. 80. which received medals
ct the exhibition In Venice and the Worlds
Fair at Chicago. Two names not commonly
met with in exhibitions or sales In this country
are those OF Jacques Louis David, who is repre-.
scented here by Q portrait Of Mime. Marie Lottia
Bonaparte, No. IS, and William Hogarth, by
whom there IL q Portrait of q Man." No. 10.
At the Kraushaar gallery, 1857 broadway. an
exhibition of water colors BY Bertha D. Sanders
is in progress, which will continue until April 3.
The pictures arc principally landscapes and
show clevertsh treatment Morning at St
Martin" No. /, and Woman Harvesting" No.
Q. were exhibited at the last Paris Salon. "A
Spring Noon, d" After Sunset" A Crtcy Mead.
owland," and the "villiers Road at Sunset" are
other studies.