New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-08

for landscapes Cainsborough's two studies from
nature standing apart
The modern make fine show. The
Barbzon men all visible in irst-rate examples
Daubigny. on the very threshold Of the exhibition
takes the observer captive. "On the French Coast
may be somewhat disconcerting in its sketchy
roughly handled sky but there Is life I'm the spa
cous canvas. and the composition Is exceptionally
beautiful The good Corots two three little
panels, OF which would especially mention lie
Ruisseau sous Bois.' work in which OF
rcposeful sylvan loveness is painted with ire
sist!ble poetry and deicacy. Rousseau comes off
with small glory In Les GOrges dApremont." but
there is tiny landscape In Of the upper rooms.
Midsummer, a specimen OF his earlier. lighter
style. which exhibits him in than creditable
manner. pretty bucolic sketch. sheep at Past
ure." is the sole work by Met that is shown,
but there several examples Of Diaz. including
a brilliant fragment. unusual In composition and
treatment La PLANE de Chaily": Wood In
terror. more fascinating for its illumination than
for it's color and characteristic figure pieces
OF which Diana and Her Nymphs" is the most
attractive. Monticello. a sort OF spiritual relation
az Diaz, is here in one tall canvas, Testing
the Fates'-which Is interesting because II shows
him working unaccustomed scale and pro-
ducing some agreeable but not altogether convnc
ing results-and In n much smaller work "tTne
Fantasie" which is OF the sanest and most
auring things ever executed by that often bizarre
and repellent painter. Decamps and Gericaut
both TO be studied in strong pictures. the former
In an Oriental scene. containing in the background
a mellow touch reminiscent Of De Hooghe-and
worthy Of him-and the great romanticist and nat
uralistc champion of 1880 in A picture of horses
Juggling at n heavy load. THE Quarry Team"
which is magnificent. This last painting is per-
feet illustrate of what Gericault did for French
art. He threw convention overheard. went straight
to nature and painted her in moods of arless
pcturesoueness. There is perhaps a touch Of vio-
lence in The Quarry Team" there Is in the
great Wreck OF the Medusa." II is the violence
OF genius. There is bold. imperious note in this
which by comparison makes the studies by
Burne-Jones in neighborng rooms seem hopelessly
timd and empty. The Uninterrupted Dream" by
the English painter. Is. candidly, very thin.
bloodless performance. At the time there
is linear charm in this which wins tolerance for
the sickly color. and the same fascinat ton OF
OF Girl at Well" memento of the "Brier- Rose
Series" Burne-Jones is the only among tho
moderns here represented who s unfamiliar. Tho
others like Voon and Cain. George
Inness and F. NJ Boggs. Gervex and Julien Dupre.
Courbet and Jules Dupre. Lerole and Charles
Jacque, whom constantly In Just such ad-
mirable works go TO swell the catalogue of this
exhibition to 16O numbers. The art season is draw
ing 10 a close. The dispersal Of the three collec-
lions at which have glanced helghtens the In
terest OF the moment. The exhibition lasts only
short time. the sale beginning next Thursday
ing at Chickering Hail.