The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-01
Fragonads Young Girl with the Marmot Gmpe and Widen
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genuine one; to bs precise this 'Pont
Alexandra
This Groult for that matter was de-
cidedly an original. one day one Of the
foreign Ambassadors had written him
for permission to come to see his
famous pictures. Groult responded by
an invitation to luncheon. The diplomat,
uneasy about the social quality OF his
amphitryon, did not dare commit him.
self to the festivity. He declined in a
letter that bore upon It's envelope the
address Monsieur Groult. miller
This latter at once wrote to the Am
bassador: 'Excellency, YOU were wrong
in refusing my invitation. we would
have been alone. with my son. and abe
10 look AT the pictures in tranquility.
There would only have been the miller
his son and the other I"
You see" added Roll. laughingly,
that this Groult would have been quite
capable OF leaving the State a false
Turner just for the plague"
The animal sculptures by Anna
Vaughan Hyatt remain on view In the
Gorham Galleries until February l. She
has corralled all the most picturesque
OF the passengers that Noah inveigled
into the ark and modelled them with
great cleverness and vivacity. The most
impressive are the two huge jaguars
designed for gate posts. They reach one
stcalthy paw down the side Of the
pedestal as though - spring upon prey
They should prove most effective guar
dams to an entrance gate of n lonely
garden.
Miss Hyatt first studied with Henry
Kitson in Boston and later at the Art
Students League Of New York with
| II. A. MacNiel; and still later with Out
zon Borglum. she IL Represented by
several pieces IN the Metropolitan
Museum Of Art and by n large figure
| Of lion in DAYTON. -. Her eoucs-
| TRAN statue Of Jeanne dare received a
| favorable mention In the Salon of 1910.
The catalogue that accompanies the
| collection OF Chinese paintings be.ong-
| ing 10 the Metropolitan Museum and
| shown To- the public for the first time
| this week Ii the first attempt at a
| scholarly catalogue of Chinese art In
| English. There ls no longer any reason
| TO guess" in such a work. The attrihu-
tons given are those OF the best Chi.
ncse authorities, list OF whom IL added
in the biblography that is included ir
the catalogue.
Or. Ferguson, who compiled it. says
The historical records of the develop.
ment Of Chinese pictorial art are volu
minous. They have been collected int
cyclopadic form In the Pei Wen Chat.
which gives one 81 the most complet,
collections to be found OF early com
ments upon painting, Of the names o.
painters. OF colophons attached to paint
lngs and OF other historical document.
relating to the subject.
"The Wang Shin Shu Hua Yuan
published about 1900, is another valu
abe source OF information. hut fo
scholarly accuracy and careful criticism
Of the Tang Sung and Yuan periods
no book eXcels ching Ho Shu Hut
Fang | should Ike to mention ais,
the name Of n book OF which Prof Hirti
only makes brief mention for the rca
son that he had not been able to pro
cure a copy Of IT, Moi Yuan Hui Kuan
"To those unable % read Chimes
the task of collection must i've guide,
largely by aesthetic taste. together Will
such information as has already beer
authorities are made available through
further TRANSACTIONS 1t will he possible
;or any trained critic to know accu
rately the correct Interpretation of Chi
nese paintings.
J 1T thus occurs that the Chinese col
lector places great Importance upon tn,
records Of any painting Of unusua
merit. When he sees a picture for tn
first lime II is the aesthetic value whicl
first appeals to him. II there be n
such value little further attention (
paid to il. but IL the designs. the colors
the silk or the paper used by the artis
show marks of distinction the mex
question which arises relates tn the his
toriCal records. Is there a colopho
and by whom was II written? Wha
!, seals have been impressed upon tn
edges of the picture and to whom Iii
these seals belong?
III the colophons and seals are q
men contemporary with or immediatel
subsequent to the artist and II the pic
, ,ure bears these idcntifications dow
, through the following years the plctur
, which bears them IL traCeable in tn
, records. Ii IL then spoken Of as 'choh
Z III (known in the records), and it's In
trinsic value is greatly enhanced. TIL
, attempt to initiate seals. signatures an
colophons has been persistent for man
} generations, and great care. couple
, with much observation, Is needed 1
: order to distinguish the genuine fror
|. the spurious. hut in this work tn
r knowledge Of textures. qualities Of in
used and pecularities of seal carvin
enable the critic to proceed with som
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