New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-02
Curious Temperance OF
~ > One Popular French
Masters Works,
DISPERSAL OF THE The,
Di a. HOE COLLECTION
$50, Paintings by Robert Reid
Nc. ID Van bearing Perrine' as
Well as Jewel Boxes
r, ROYAL CoRTlSSoZ.

..elocuC. ilStt"u - '''''S
''s -. ode page. But there is one
On 90 chase taste asserts itself in
smateul interesting manner. giving
2 euIiVS note Of It's own unpreee-
the SEC" our observation Of the aue-
ienieo !. This is MIR. Willard r..
uon ~ ~ he has cared for pictures
Ienlps,;~ons sorts, for works OF me
d va schoo'. for a Belgian. Ike
Bsro1VT whose Erasmus pictat-
Baron ~. Sccrc.a~~.' by the way IS
ne ..,i hi. Of painting. But he has
beau..,II s,srp,c, Of Gerome as some
eolle'' !.i,S,t examples Of Monet or
u, u'en " lie has q dozen paintings by
Nhis @'ous French Academician, and
me ,e,', ,ron them. one after another.
70 eomv .eynec,ed,y, In miscellaneous
Qu'sIs..;or like this one, ls to ENJOY
e 'I.nge sensation. IL sets the com
''tS. .s,or 10 thinNnC not merely on
men Tvs Of T. -E.ou but on certain
7TI rlNs is one Of the great figures
vs, n5eT, French painting We have
"a nv. Noc. reco.lcc/oa Of what was SAID
~ 90 -" linn hv his countrymeN when he
soO'' ,s ", wears Ego. but We are quite
DC. that the cu.ogy pronounced
eeI.s' L;s crave contained the epithes
V yS'-,or, In no other word could
~ '.N Tre1eb have testified 20 their re
ue sor bir, He was Of the long Inc
spse' ~ who have built up a ma
~ rsrute and nave received, IN
uVH serse Of the Official phrase. a
eve! Gratitude. How did he VIVA
"a .,er5op1 By the simple process
% lsovi-- h, trade and practising
r. We may borrow another term
- par.sisr custom with maCiS-
W.. I'm sr-bcrt, I.e Was the artistic
-, in exec u.s., the very type ana
I.i ~ scholastic disc plne IN art.
,,..v.~r,,rsrsble Americans prohted by MS
.-..,-e-,on There never was q
49, teacher. The late Augustus
S..a,.Csndens once told the present
1 2,,' That he considered Gerome 5
~ Tr;rerce Grise" masterpiece.
Tssrs was no detail IN It, he SAID,
- was not .nd.sren sable 10 the
bslapee Of the composition as Who!e.
Vons Of the twelve pictures al the
imsriean Arr Galleries Is master
,'ees These various Oriental SUBJECTS
,siope 10 the painters ordinary Pc
5.s.rier mood Bu. that very fact only
ov,"ss, the more wildly his power
ofmsking g well knit picture. Note IN
gjrs,rstjon. the Jew Praying al SOLO
-o~,. Wall" and study the relation
~ the man in II 20 the great pie Oh
~,sorrv arairs. which he is set. There
yCn have Gerome in q nutshell ms
5srfsrt Judgment in the placing OF
ssrrs his Precise drawing, his photo
-Ssnbie realism. and, oddly, skill IN
SAVING his painting, at the !ast mo,
nent. as il we've, from .ooHlhg 'oo
iesperately Ike q photograph.
Give Clew to His Obscurity.
The traits at which we have just
danced explain Gerome S pre-eminenes
and give Us o c.ew TO the compafailNe
,bscuri,y into which ne has falen'
This belated group o. has works II II
rerresents the learned Onentailst' the
master of composition, the finished
draughtsnar. the we. trained painter
Of the nude. represents also the ir4Slu
nan OF academic rule. VINO never IN
his life had bis imagination SIrred OUT
n lie rredestius. orbit. From begin
ming 70 end he va- Interested IN form
and grasped many of its secrets, YET
form, as Gerome presents II IN ms
nudes. nich, be the cold convention OF
a gallery Of plaster casts. He painted
ions, tigers and even, once, a hippo
We believe, going for ms backgrounds
70 the authentic desert, but his beasts,
like his odaliSCUes, were creatures OF
the studio. O1e Of the live.lest in
telligences Of his time, he appears
nevertheless 90 have remained abso-
lutely untouched rs the impression
isiie and kindred movements. Noml-
nslly student o. nature, he cared
nothing for the world that TO the art
lists Of our own day means light and
air. He sought the truth, but II was
lot our truth. Hence. we repeat. the
almost uneanny strsngeness Of his ap-
pesTanee on this occasion twelve pct
ures strong But Lex not the reader
be misguided By that strangeness.
Jerome, il is true, wanting the last
elements Of creative genius, was be-
irayed by his very accomplishments,
ana the appea that he makes has lost
Its once potent allurement. Yet, as we
'utn from his pictures, we md our
selves murmuring, How many artists
OF to-day might be the better for sub
.eetng themsclvcr, from time to time,
% the tradition of GerOme." And
while We are about IT we might even
bnng in the equally oid-fashioned name
81 Bouguereau. His "Faun and Bac-
'hanie' IN the present exhibition Is
'essuredlly not masterpiece. But the
nan who painted that picture knew
how 10 draw.
Many Ideas are To Be Seen.
In the rest Of the collection, which
Is 10 say in its larger part. we encoun-
H al manner Of ideas. There are the
oSfolzon types aforementioned, In
sood enough form; there is that fine
'ssttuoy IN nch, solid tones by Legs, and
mere is a cleyerly drawn head by Dag
ian Bouyerct, mildly interesting be-
Ssuse we see so little Of his work here.
oOiolnls Gathering Wild Flowers" is
: gem, q souvenir Of that earlier pc
i .o1 Of his in which the celebrated
.Siian was emulating Fortuny's sleight
y. hsnd and gittering in n way all his
SSh. Some admirable American paint
,paes are included. works by George II.
Dosert, R. A. Blakelock. Childe Has
am F. B Williams and others. In
ne foreign contingent we may cite.
90 the late Alma-Tadema. Raffaelli,
aontieelli and Harpignies. The en-
.ssnole is good, and not infrcquently
ae individual picture is Of a nigh or
~ OF merit. For so mixed a collec-
"Vn this has unusual interest.
III Arthur I. Hoes three hundred
4..ns' shown at the same place, range
ION lades to paintings. from porce-
sias TO tapestries. The ten or twelve
a.'ufes are Of no great moment, but
ae collection Of Oriental objects en-
lace. siisees much that is of value The
;sS'sonnes make noble array, includ-
s,s rs they do many of the best pieces
to vn the Robert Hoe collection. sold
!, years ago. The jades also leave
interesting impression, Mr.. Hoes
-. Onglngs will be sold at the Ameri-
Art Galleries next Friday and Sat