The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-29
SOME AGREEABLE. PAINTINGS.
The j. W. Kaufman Collection One OF
smooth and Even Grade
Art SALES AND EXHIBITIONS.

While there are still nearly 1000 cata-
logue lots of the Oriental objects in tho
Waggaman collection to be seen at the
American Art Galleries. the exhibition in
those galleries has been augmented hy
the collection OF paintings and water colors
belonging to the estate OF the late j. W
Kaufman OF st. Louis, which are to be sold
at auction in Mendelssohn Hall next Friday
evening. These pictures were placed on
exhibition yesterday and may be seen until
the day Of sale.
1t Is for the most part collection Of
unusually even, unimpeachable quality
"a collection of pictures agreeable to live
with or among, without canvases that
appeal for particularly "palnterlike' quail
ties or that betoken their possessor "A
devoted to any one school or style in art
Many Of them are of cabinet size. and there
Is no large canvas among them. Wher-
ever Mr.. kaufman saw painting of small
size and OF good quality as an example OF
the artlst he seems to have bought il. with
out reference TO its nature as an exponent
Of any scholastic viewpoint or to its charac-
ter as revealing the charms of landscape
or depicting the figure or telling a story
some or the pictures, doubtless early pur-
chases are Of the familiar trivial sort, but
the most and the best of them are well
worth seeing.
There is Lepine OF singular charm
and felicity EST Ouen,- showing the Seine
and its banks and here and there figure
placed for it's value in the composition
IL II vain 10 say that it is like Corot it j.
Lepine. There is LHermitte, The Blaze
OF MONDAY, depicting harVesters resting
IN the field good example OF its style.
The scholarly Harpignies appears in two
examples that exhibit his qualities without
nus familiar mannerlsms, The Bridge at
Saint Prive' and THE Willow Near tin
River, both refreshing and restful entcing
in atmosphere and cool in the tones Of the
waters.
Two Mauves Of fine feeling and character
lstically executed are hung below the
Harpignies canvases and none harms
complementary Going to Pasture Early
Morning" and Returning from Pasture
Evening"
Viberts vulgar tinge appears in his The
Church In Danger, well painted though il
be, in which amid luxurious surround
ings an aged Cardinal plays cards with a
light hearted lady who is listening to some
apparently. sparkling communication from
another who speaks at her ear. Dupra
appears in a keen. vigorous phase in A
Windy Day, and again in a placid mood
in pastoral Landscape"
There is a Renoir nude. 1.-THE Bather
and a larger nude by Lefebvre, Psyche
An Arab Fantastic by Delacroix mill
tary compositions by Detaille and De Men
vile; small figure study of Diaz; a Greuze
OF some strength. -Tete de Garcon". large
Boudin. The Beach at Etretat": a Cain
moonlight canvas. "Thornfed Castle a
Van Marcke examples of De Thoren
canvas by Jacob Maris, a Schreyer, a SCUM
Pinto that is more OF painters picture than
the rest; n Corot figure painting of much
charm, Italian Maiden In which more
is made Of the figure than is usual with
this painter; "a Bonnat, perfect Of its kind;
two jacques, and an Israels, among The
rest. Several sculptures are also ia the
Kaufman collection