New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-27
PARIS ART NOTES.
Works of americans That attract
4ppreciatiUe Attention.
Paris. March 4

Paris toward foreign painter. The Intrinsic
Americain." he is called by the French critics.
has concentrated his artistic conscience In the
last ten years upon the portrayal of interiors
and felicitous Interpretation of hospitable
hearths. intimate boudoirs homelike dining
| rooms aesthetic libraries, and so He has
studied with the problems OF indoor light
and atmosphere. and his minute analyses of re-
fined luxurious home corners In spite of their
microscopic Meissonnierlike finish, never dry
and mathematical. There is nothing photo
graphic about them. He takes into the old
Fairbanks house at Dedham. the library Of
Longfellows house at Cambridge and Trinity
Church at Newport and brings beside the
captivating hresides of we'll known Americans
in New-York, Boston and Newport. One of his
pictures is of the hall in the residence of Mrs.
G. r. Fearing; another is Of the beautiful
Louis XIV boudoir of Nine. Julia Bartet. of the
Comedie FRANCHISE. which offers a striking con-
trast to the stern Anglo-saxon severity of the
library of Lord Ribblssdale. A luxurious note
is presented in the luminous Partisan drawing
room Of Mrs. Edward ]. Tuck There are
studies Of somnolent libraries in the houses OF
N. FRANCOIS F1emeng and NJ. Paul OllendorH.
and of the studios OF Helleu Thaulow and Mr.
Gay himself. A wider range is shown In the
paintings Of the oval courtyard of the Palace Of
Fontafnebleau; the carp pond at Fontainebleau
belonging TO the Countess de Bearn; of the
Chateau of Courance belonging TO the Marquise
de Ganay: of the Seville tobacco factory, loaned
by the Luxembourg. and of the Cluny Museum.
with its medieval tapestries and historic fur
niture There is an air OF life in Walter Gays
interiors, and his exhibition is the most sue
cessful OF the man shows of the present
season.
The rooms OF the American Art Association in
the Rue Notre-Dame-des-Ch Champs are open for
exhibition OF American and French paint
ings of unusual interest Abbott Graves sends
| q pleasing picture of his two children studying
geography on a large revolving globe-map. f.
c. Frieseke has a happily composed and
clevery colored picture of a society beauty
looking at a mirror she puts the finishing
touches TO the adjustment of her corsage. E
L. Warner succeeds in rendering Notre Damo
Cathedral with imposing solemnity and mys-
terry Alexander Harrisons daring and lumin-
Gus studies OF fire and fame rising skyward III
the darkness of night. like strange glowing
pents novel and suggestive. There are
other night studies, notably those of the Seine
at Paris, by P. c. Dougherty. and 1.-THE Pont de
Solferino," by Charles Bittinger. H. o. Tanner
exhibits a mysterious conception of st
Peters Remorse." the scene of which is placed
near the walls Of Jerusalem. There Vene
tian studies by Eugene Vail and by Faulkner;
clever and harmonious Seine Barge" by
Alison Clark. st. George Huntington exhibits
clever and truthful scenes on the banks of the
Disc; Lionel Walden presents some brilliant.
strongly brushed bits of Mediterranean blue sky
and water. Paul Bartlett's bass-relief OF the
death of Warren at Bunker Hill has the vigor
and deEcacy of line that expects from the
sculptor of the equestrian statute of Lafayette
in the Louvre Garden. Spicer-Simson's
dallion portrait of General Horace Porter is
vvaIJ ivad and iS likeness
Side by side with these works of American
artists are Characteristic pictures by Raphael
Collin, Caro-Delvaille Aman-Jean. Jean Paul
Laurens, Henri Martin Anne Morot, z. r.
Menard, Roybet Chabas, Cormon, Besnard. and
Eugene Carrier. Altogether, the American Art
Association, in this its third exhibition Of the
season, does itself genuine credit.
A novel manifestation is found in the show
of the Artistic Association of Amateurs" now,
open in the Cour La Refine, somewhat 'front.'
cally described as the Salon du Gotha," owing
to the royal or noble lineage of the artists.
The King OF Portugal sends large strongly
drawn pastel representing a landscape near
Alemtejo, in which clusters of venerable trees
with time-worn banks and deep hollows
effectively produced. The Queen of Portugal
exhibits four delicate water colors. One of
these represents Don Jaime de Braganza land
ing on African soil at the head of his troops.
relics and of ancient Jewels in the possession of
the House of Braganza. The Duchesse de
Charities sends some fascinating water color
drawings OF flowers. Princess Waldemar of
Denmark exhibits series of .uatic birds and
studies of mushrooms. The Countess of Elan
ders sends some delicately painted fans. The
Duchess of Vendome's water color drawings of
thstles greatly admired. There are pastel
portraits by the Princess Ghslaine de Caraman-
Chimay, by the Duchess d'Estissac, by the
Countess Theodore de Gontaut-Biron. by the
Marquse de Grollier, and by the talented Mile
Marie d'Epinay. There delightful land
scapes painted by Countess Pierre de Cosse Brs-
sac. by Baroness Lambert. by the Marquise de
MacMahon, and by the Countess Olivier de
Beaumont. Among the members of the sterner
sex who exhibit are Count Guy de La Roche
foucald Count suau de la Croix-whose trans
lucent enamels are beautiful in exeoution-and
the Marquis de L'Aigle.
Owing to the prevalence of spurious but often
deceptive limitations of Did and of contemporary
masters the Society OF the Friends of the
Luxembourg Museum, under the patronage of
NJ. Dujardin- Beaumetz. Under Secretary of State
for Fine Arts, is about TO organize Bureau
of Authenticity for works of art. A number
Of experts to be attached to the bureau
duly provided by the Project of Police with the
full authority of police magistrates. There is
to be thorough search, high and low. for faIsi-
fed pictures and statuary. The idea is new
in France. and it's application will meet with
almost insurmountable difficulties. but NJ Du-
acknowledgements is confident that with patience
and indefatigable perseverance these will in due
time be surmounted. c. B.
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