The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-19
ART IN TWO EXHIBITIONS.
BLACK AND WHITE AND MANY
COLORS IN TEN GALLERIES..
Etchings and Engraylnss OF the Collection
OF Walter =. Carter and Rare Textiles
OF Vital Dengulats at the American
Galleries Some Fine Tapestries.

OF Vital DenguIats al the American
Galleries - some Fine Tapestries.
Two exhibitions Of widely different char
acter are open at the American Art Cal
eries. prior to public sales which are to
be held In the galleries on the afternoons
and evenings Of the, last three days Of this
week. As the charm OF one IA mainly in
black and white effect and the beauty OF
the other Is largely in color it might be
said that the exhibitions were compile
mentary; but in fact they are wholly dis
tinot one from the other and will be viewed
separately by collectors, although enjoyed
alike by catholic art lovers, and what true
lovers OF TT are other than catholic7
The exhibitions fill the ten galleries OF the
American Art Association. They include
masterpieces Of engraving and etching
from the collection of the late Walter s.
Carter OF Brooklyn and exquisite textiles
belonging TO Vital Benguiat. Mr., Benguiat
is put down as OF Paris, but he is too well
known in New York and other capitals to
he given TO any city. Where textile art OF
high excellence Is 10 be had or where IL Is
appreciated there is Vital also. And this
season he il back in New York with rare
fabrics to challenge a public always ready
to appreciate them
Mr., Carter's collection OF etchings and
engravings in line. stipple and mezzotint
ia the fruit OF many years Of interested
study. and includes examples Of the work
OF four centuries. About 100 artists are
represented. Between the information ao-
CURED in his own studies. his taste and the
advice of safe guides among the purveyors
Of these classes of works OF art, Mr.. Carter
was enabled TO bring together collection
of high and even order Of merit. Ths
enthusiastic Mr. FitHoy Darlington, who
prepared the catalogue and has Toasted on
black and white art these many years, de-
cares that the collection Is the best of the
best. Two sentences in his preface are
sufficiently descriptive and Illuminating TO
be singled out and put together az explain
ing in brief what the exhibition offers.
Never Mr.. Darlington says, was a
collection moe safely made, or on more
approved lines. In it are reflected
none Of those flashes Of genius-they are
no less-which have enabled certain col
lectors, from the time OF Pierre Mariette
until our own day to recognize a master
piece at the moment of its birth. but. in
their stead, we have. quietly shining, what
IL, perhaps, not less valuable. steady,
broad minded survey of the whole range
Of engraving and etching"
These observations imply an industrious
wedding, which was done by Mr.. Carter
himself and has left the collection free
from the frequent discouraging examples
acquired in the pursuit Of art, character
ling many collections that come into the
auction market In the four galleries in
which the more than four hundred en-
cravings and etchings are displayed, they
are arranged. so far as may be in groups
representative OF the respective artists
70 that of the work of those who are to be
seen several examples may be studied
easily and agreeaby. each man by himself
Whistler occupies one end Of the largest
gallery. Rembrandt a large part Of one Of
the long walls Of the same room. Haden
the side wall OF a smaller gallery, and 30 on,
with Meryon, D1rer. Mason. Muller, Bar
tolozzi, Bracquemond, Wilkie, Van Dyck,
Waltner Zom. Gravesande and all the
long list scattered about. Millet, Van
Ostade Pennell. Lefebyre Lucas van Ley
den. march,, Fortuny and Herkomer are
in the list OF those represented in one ex-
ample each only:
II s almost useless to attempt TO partic-
ularize in 80 inclusive a collection. II
is one 10 be seen by all Interested. In the
case of the Whistlers, the sale will be likely
to present some figures that will be food
for thought, for both here and in England
this artists etchings have been climbing
Of late 10 high prices. There are about
sixty of them IN the collection. most Of
them having the butterfly signature, and
most Of them, Of course, well known
The -Twenty-six Etchings,' the Venice
set, various noctunes and other subjects,
in fine impressions and different states, are
represented here, and there is also the only
still life ever done by Whistler. Among
the Remhrnndts is the Hundred Guilder
Print Christ Healing the Sick in the
second state There is a very fascinating
landscape, artists proof on vellum, by
Chauvel. after Daubigny's Solitude; a
print by Dixon In the first state after Sir
Joshuas Nelly O'Bnen'; and first state
proof before all letters by M1ller after the
Slstine Madonna, among the many exam
pies TO be noted
Mr. Bengliat's velvets tapestries. bro
cades, laoes and embroideries of wondrous
splendor, fascinating intT1cacy, or mellow
charm are largely work Of the sixteenth,
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. With
them are some curious embroidered pic
lures old lamps in repouss6 silver and other
church relics A rare Venetian Gothic
portiere OF red cut velvet tells a story OF
ancient splendOr and riches. There Is an
Italian Gothic red cut velvet cope. adorned
in eight panels with the Virgin and Child,
and various saints in Renaissance needle
work Of high perfection.
A Spanish Gothic wall hanging OF red
velvet and cloth of gold is described as onco
adjoining the walls Of the Alhambra There
is n Genoese cut velvet Jewish altar hanging
with ornamental Italian needework A
rare coveret Of old Venetian lace with
male and female figures and animals worked
in the design fills case by itself and near
by is a rose point dc venise coverlet from
Versailles, with a design Of scrolls and
leaves.
Among the needlework pictures is one
after Teniers A Roman missal Of the
eighteenth century Is bound in red velvet
with rococo ornamentation. A Flemish
tapestry pictures Joseph's recall OF his
brothers when the charge Of stealing the
silver cup was made.
Church Plans AnnlN ersary Celebration.
The Methodists Of Greenpoint are plan
ming a big celehrntinn In honor " the fifty