The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-16
Art SALES OF TIE SEASON.
COLLECTION or HENRY q. MAR
QUAND WILL DOMINATE THEN.
Lyail Sale In February VIII He . Notable
ES -Millet's la Nuisance du
Veau." DrctOn's la Fin du Travail"
and Three COrOts I'm This Collection.

Nent-Milet's la Nuisance du
Veau," DrctOn's LA Fin du Travail"
and Three COrOts I'm This Collection.
When the art sales season Of this winter
really begins it will move along rapidly
and interestingly. Three large sales are
already billed at the American Art Gal.
leries. the latest to he added to the list be-
ing tina, Of the collection Of the late Devid
c. Lyall Of this city. The sale Of the grand
art collection Of the late president OF the
Metropolitan Museum Of Art. Henry @.
MarQuand, which will dominate the sea-
son. and the sale OF the valuable paintings
owned by the late Mrs. 3. d. Warren OF
Boston are both announced for January,
and the I.yall sale will take place early In
February
Mr.. Lyall WIS long a resident Of Brook
Ign, and he began collecting pictures more
than a quarter of century ago. A dozen
years ago his collection had reached such
proportions that he was obliged to build
a gallery for his treasures. which are all
modern works He outgrew Brooklyn
and had planned to house his paintings At
tingly in Manhattan.
At the time of his sudden death q house
he was building In West Fifty-seventh
street was on the eve Of completion, and in
Il is a fine gallery, designed for the proper
display of his canvases. Mr. Lyall had
travelled much, and many Of his paint
ings he purchased direct from the artists
studios. The larger number Of the Others
came from the dispersas Of private col
lect ions In this country and In Europe
More than score OF his pictures areworks
of the Barbizon men and those usually
classed with them, and there II scarcely
a Barbizon painter missing from the col
lection.
Probably the best-known canvas In the
collection Is that catalogued as la Nais-
sance du Veau," Millet's Salon picture Of
1884, which used to bear the pleasanter and
more accurate title Peasants Bearing
Home Calf Born in the Field This was
one Of the paintings which shared In the
singing criticism and the extravagant
praise that were bestowed upon Millet's
| art in the discussion Of his work that was
| then going on.
The two laborers bearing the new born
| calf on q bed of hay, the mother accom-
| panying with all the manifestations OF
| brute solicitude. and the sympathetic
| peasant girl following-the whole in Millet
atmosphere and harinony-such IL the
| picture, which will be remembered by
| visitors to the Barge exhibition here few
| years ago.
Millet7s paintings appear only occa-
sionally in sales, a fact not strange when
| 1t is recalled that he completed only eighty
| pictures III his thirty-one years OF painting.
| One OF the great canvases OF the col
| lection is Breton's La Fin du Travail,
| which was painted on order In 1881, and
with which the artist expressed the greatest
satisfaction The subj ect might suggest
one of the artists noted works Of twenty
years earlier, his women Digging Pota-
| toes or that known to visitors to tho
Walters collection In Baltimore, his End
| Of the Day: or, Rest Of TWO Peasant women
After Their Toll
| 1t twilight composition, in which three
peasant women, the conspicuous figures
| Of the canvas are doing their last stint IL.
filing a final bag Of potatoes In field.
while they signify TO other women who are
marching homeward heavily laden with
| other sacks Of potatoes that they will soon
| follow. An etching Of this work has been
published.
There are three Corots. how character
istic may Toe seen from skeleton descr1p-
ton of lie Bouleau'-a brook. willow
| clump. a sapling grassy field. the edge
| Of wood; a work ascribed to the painter s
middle period.
| Rocks and oaks in autumn coloring ar-
| pear in one OF the Rous-eaus Of the col
| lection, and in another is a peasant plough
! ing on misty morning, MS aDoIulR morse
| strainng ia the sticky soil and breathin <
| har in the murky air,
There il a large and fine Troyon fror,
| the Stewart collection, presenting two
cows, very friendly at the moment, stand
| ing in field where wild flowers grow
Of course, there is a Jacque, a sheep picture
and there is Volon. Henner Magdalene
| a Gerome Arab, one Of Bonnats Italian
maideis. an lsabey, and a work Of the
New Yorker David johnson.
| Fromentin's 81 uvenir Of Algiers' il her,
| and a Brascassat and n Boldini, Cain :
| mon Jardin," Cots ale Prin,cmps." a
wild Cpurbet landscape. and the last work
Of D. Neuville, ard incident Of the occli-
patton Of Etretat by the French in the
| Franco Pruasian war. In this canvas Of
d, Ncuville's the picturs If officers ara al
| portraits, and the names Of the original,
| we're supplied by the artist when he sen,
out the pictures.
Dupre In this collection may be seen II
| morning. midday and evening landscapes
| Diaz furnishes a Joyous canvas Of cupid
and nvrnphs froli' king about a shaded pool
| Daubigny appears in the tenderness of hi