New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-03
Art Exhibitions
The Collections Of the Late
James B. llaggin and
Some Others

The pictures lust placed on view at
! the American Art Galleries, and schcd-
uled 10 be sold at the Plaza tomorrow
and Thursday evenings, make curl
ously mixed company Some Of them
were brought together by the late
James h. Haggin. whose taste ranged
, from Nibert to the Barbizon school and
portraits by the old masters. His col
lection alone would have given the
place a miscellaneous air, but the ca
ccutors Of the late Matthew Addy' OF
Cincinnati; Mr.. Oren Wcstcook. or
Providence, and the attorneys Tor
divers other owners have also had some
thing to say about the ensemble. Inc
result is divcrting. The lover of painted
anccdotc may take his choice among
any number Of old-fashIoned salon
types. but so likewise may the more
exscting observer find here things TO
awaken his enthusiasm. The last Of
the 15l pictures, the eliminating point
as it were. is Mr., Haggins big Dau-
bigny. zone the French Coast There
is the work of a master.
VIC forget. sometimes, the real stat
IRE of Daubigny. Collectors have had
a prediction for those modest panels
of his Scene on the Disc would
make a satisfactory title for almost
any of them in which he reproduced
ever and over again the river banks
he loved. But the sight of the sea had
a stirring effect upon him. Just once
in so often it would move him TO the
painting of a great picture, a picture
like this "On the French Coast IN
which his composition would take or
nobler lines and the whole genius OF
the man would be the more grandly eX-
pressed. The more casual DaubignY
lis, by the way. very pleasantly repre-
scented in this show. Two sketches
Nos. So and 81 we'll illustrate his
realism in its ordinary. intimate phase.
or the other artists OF his period Corot'
Millet and Rousseau arc missing, but
there are interesting examples OF Dupre'
Decamps. Delacroix. Troyon and Diaz.
Michel is present in unusually fine
form. His Dutch Landscape for
merly in the Fuller collection. IS an
old friend delightful 20 meet again.
Mr.. Haggin. who owned that picture.
also had the good luck TO obtain from
the same source Gainsborough' Edge
Of the Common" a rarely beautiful
specimen of the great portrait painters
Landscape style.
The works by even earlier masters
are not. on the whole, very impressive.
but there are decorative merits IN the
various portraits Of French or Dutch
origin. and one Of these, the Portrait
OF a Lady," judiciously cataloGued as
in the style Of Govaert Flinck and
Ferdinand Bol, makes = decidedly hand
some episode in the little procession.
But the moderns predominant. Scattered
through the mass Of so-called "popu-
lar" stufr-though the sentimentalities
OF twenty-five years ago are not, to be
sure, so very popular tO-day-there are
several excellent sketches by the
American Frank Boggs, a striking sun
set by George Inness. really glorious
Venetian subject by Ziem. no fewer
than seven o. Geromc's academic pieces
cold. but mastery in their way, and
pic.ures mildly admirable by Vollon'
Rico. W. VI. Hunt. Kaemmerer, Jong-
kind. Boughton and De Book. Tho sale
is not precisely exciting. But neither
IS it negligible.