The sun., 1909-06-18
ART NOTES.


ART NOTES.
A writer In the Paris Gduiois has beer
taking too seriously some New Yorh
paragrapher who recently proposed q
museum Of spurious art. Evidently NJ
Corioles has not yet heard Of the Stutt.
gart Museum Of Ugly Art the idea oi
which set going wassish pens over here
"Un musee des faux" exclaims the French
feuilletonlst. Why not? Nothing could be
easier for New York collectors than tc
dump the contents OF their private CALLER.
les into this apochryphal museum. OuI
amateurs, IL seems, have been fooled
into buying fake old masters. and smitter
by the inpressionistlo craze have bough,
false Monets, Pissaros. Manets and
Cezannes-whioh latter item may astonish
the Messrs. Durand. .Ruel And the
"marchands' Of Chicago. Baltimore, Gin
intimate knowledge Of
Americas tastes and Of its topography
is ever displayed by Partisan penmen?-
are content to be fooled. 1t Is calmly
asserted that 1900 false Rembrandts are
sent across the water every year and
disposed Of to Yankee gulls! French
amateurs are more clsirvoyant, declares
NJ. Coriolas. 1t may be 30. but when be
writes that the dupes are moro interesting
than their plunderers We beg to demur
Considering the fact that In Paris ID the
great -musee des faux where are manu-.
factured Corots, Courbets, Meissoniers
MNnAta-vAa nd
Cezannee. Sisleys and many others, ther
it Is for US a most interesting question
whether poor deluded New York is %
deficient after all in true feeling for the
fine arts. What is an occasional scandal
here Is steady industry in the French
capital. We may add. paraphrasing a
popular saying: We love our pictures
but oh you Paris!
The newly purchased paintings in the
recent acquisition room OF the Metropoli.
tan Museum are a Madonna and Child
BY Lorenzo Monaco; a triptych. north
Italian (about 400; eight scenes from holy
subjects, school OF Giotto; a Madonna and
Child bv Montagna. The latter 10 % fresh
that 1t looks as though it had been painted
yesterday. 1t 10 extraordinary how well
medieval paint wears in comparison with
the stuff they put on canvases nowadays
the latter shows the pstina Of time in q few
years We wonder why! Perhaps NJ.
Corioles could tell US; perhaps he nigh,
hint at overpsinting, repainting. repair
ing while you waltz and other sinister
things. The big group by Barge. Tiger
Devouring a Gazelle.- Is now in Gallery
q. 1t 10 gift to the museum from Mrs
Theodore Kane Gibbs in memory Of hel
husband. In case near by are smaller
sculptures lent by Mrs. Cyrus j. Laurence
two silver. one aluminium. one terra Gotta
eight bronze statuettes and groups
ten bronze basreliefs. and a bronze medal
lion Of Barge by A. Patey. Mrs. Lau-
renee has also lent eight paintings by
Barys--Fontaineblea Wolf Chasing
a stork." Stag Walking Standing
Lion Rolling Tiger -Lion Reclining.
Leopard and Snail and Tiger Reclin-
ing" A marble bust OF the young St.
John by antonio Rossellino. Florentine
is lent by George Blumen-
thai 1t is charged with a sweet naivetf
There is a multitude Of beautiful objects
to be seen at the museum this month.
With the art exhibitions at the Lenox
Library II is c case Of the season Is dead,
long live the season. Curator Weitsn-
kampf sees 10 1t that his shows last from
January ill December al. and this is
we'll Because all the world and his wife
steam to Europe. must there be no cakes
and ale for the home stayers? In the
lower hall Of the Lenox there Is now an
exhibition OF engravings after paintings
by Raphael This exhibition 10 extremely
to the student. 1t is mostly
made up OF plates from the collection Of
the late Dr. Wilhelm Engelmsnn, many
being signed proofs, and practically all the
modern numbers proofs before letters.
These line engravings range from the
sixteenth to the nineteenth century. from
the work OF the Master F. G. TO that Of G. F.
Muller, the engraver OF the celebrated
plate after the Sistine Madonna, Mr..
points out that Of the older
engravers Marc Antonio Raimondi. Colt
zius and Hollar ara we'll represented.
lie to be seen in both versions. with and
without the pine tree" Authorities
are about equally divided as to which
Of these is the original, Ugo da Carpi
has executed the same plate: his Is In
printing in tints from wood
blocks in imitation Of wash draw
ingr. In the "blsck manner there 10 a
mezsotint by valiant. also sone plates
by Frenchmen OF the fifteenth century
The Italians OF the late eighteenth and
early nineteenth centuries are well rep
resented. Raphael Morghen. Toschi, Gan
dolf and others. The Germans-who
seem rather cold. though faulhess tech
nioians tn be eeen are Miller, Mandel,
Keller; the Frenohmen Boucher-Des-
noyers and the Englishman Strange are
not missing. Altogether. this 10 an instruo-
tive as we'll as an agreeable exhibition.
The show Of animals In black aud white
continues in the upper gallery.
The Critics
From an address by George =. Parkt, al Wash.