DOI issue:
Nr. 193 (März 1913)
DOI article:In the galleries
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In the Galleries
BY TITIAN
Courtesy of Messrs. E. Gimpel & Wildenstein
LA SCHIAVONA
the 15th. These prints are all in first-class con-
dition and are excellent impressions. The most
notable in the collection are The Knight, Death
and The Devil, St. Jerome in the Desert and St.
Jerome in His Cell, the complete set of sixteen,
known as The Small Passion, St. Efistace and
some Madonnas.
The Kraushaar Gallery had on view three pic-
tures by Jurres, in the color and light of Spain,
and three Zuloagas. The gipsy dancing girl is a
splendid canvas, reveling in light and full of
grand color. The girl is life size, clad in the most
picturesque shirt, breeches and cloak, splendid in
pose, with olive complexion, snaky locks hued like
the raven’s wing. How she would have charmed
George Borrow! A splendid type of gitana.
Dainty drawings in profusion by John Downman
are on view at the Hodgkins’ Galleries. He flour-
ished between 1750 and 1824 and did most delicate
work on very thin paper, which he often colored
from the back. An interesting feature of his
American dilettanti and strangers within
the gate are having every opportunity, as
the season progresses, of seeing all kinds of
art and periods of art in the different galleries.
The McMillin collection made way for Bor-
den and Talmage collections; Knoedler’s were in
the hands of the American Portrait Painters and
the New School is holding high revel at the 69th
Regiment Armory, while an excellent display of
paintings and sculpture is being admired at the
Architectural League. Furthermore, the Asso-
ciation of American Etchers has started its first
annual exhibition away from Chicago, and com-
menced here with a most successful exhibition, to
be shown in some fifty cities. The National Arts
Galleries have ended their Members’ Exhibition
and are showing works of the late F. Warren Freer.
La Schiavona, by Titian, which we have repro-
duced by courtesy of Messrs. E. Gimpel & Wilden-
stein, is a famous canvas. Stand¬
ing square to the spectator is a
buxom middle-aged Venetian
woman of the better class, with
somewhat heavy but good-
natured features, the hair parted
in the center and caught over
the ears by lace lappets. One
hand rests upon a piece of
marble statuary, showing a
medallion portrait. Her Bor¬
deaux-colored dress gives the
requisite offset to the cold tones
of the marble. It is painted in
Titian’s best style. In the sev¬
enteenth century this picture
was in the collection of Count
Alessandro Colleoni in the Cas¬
tle of Cavernago. This noble¬
man having indulged in the pas¬
time of murder, his property was
confiscated; his wife, however,
managed to save this picture
from theDucal Chamber, and we
next hear of it in the Riccardi
Collection, where it was pur¬
chased by Senator Crespi, act¬
ing on the advice of Morelli, of
Milan.
Mr. Rudolf Seckel has suc¬
ceeded in getting together some
fifty Diirer engravings on cop¬
per, which will be on view till
j^N THE GALLERIES
XXI
BY TITIAN
Courtesy of Messrs. E. Gimpel & Wildenstein
LA SCHIAVONA
the 15th. These prints are all in first-class con-
dition and are excellent impressions. The most
notable in the collection are The Knight, Death
and The Devil, St. Jerome in the Desert and St.
Jerome in His Cell, the complete set of sixteen,
known as The Small Passion, St. Efistace and
some Madonnas.
The Kraushaar Gallery had on view three pic-
tures by Jurres, in the color and light of Spain,
and three Zuloagas. The gipsy dancing girl is a
splendid canvas, reveling in light and full of
grand color. The girl is life size, clad in the most
picturesque shirt, breeches and cloak, splendid in
pose, with olive complexion, snaky locks hued like
the raven’s wing. How she would have charmed
George Borrow! A splendid type of gitana.
Dainty drawings in profusion by John Downman
are on view at the Hodgkins’ Galleries. He flour-
ished between 1750 and 1824 and did most delicate
work on very thin paper, which he often colored
from the back. An interesting feature of his
American dilettanti and strangers within
the gate are having every opportunity, as
the season progresses, of seeing all kinds of
art and periods of art in the different galleries.
The McMillin collection made way for Bor-
den and Talmage collections; Knoedler’s were in
the hands of the American Portrait Painters and
the New School is holding high revel at the 69th
Regiment Armory, while an excellent display of
paintings and sculpture is being admired at the
Architectural League. Furthermore, the Asso-
ciation of American Etchers has started its first
annual exhibition away from Chicago, and com-
menced here with a most successful exhibition, to
be shown in some fifty cities. The National Arts
Galleries have ended their Members’ Exhibition
and are showing works of the late F. Warren Freer.
La Schiavona, by Titian, which we have repro-
duced by courtesy of Messrs. E. Gimpel & Wilden-
stein, is a famous canvas. Stand¬
ing square to the spectator is a
buxom middle-aged Venetian
woman of the better class, with
somewhat heavy but good-
natured features, the hair parted
in the center and caught over
the ears by lace lappets. One
hand rests upon a piece of
marble statuary, showing a
medallion portrait. Her Bor¬
deaux-colored dress gives the
requisite offset to the cold tones
of the marble. It is painted in
Titian’s best style. In the sev¬
enteenth century this picture
was in the collection of Count
Alessandro Colleoni in the Cas¬
tle of Cavernago. This noble¬
man having indulged in the pas¬
time of murder, his property was
confiscated; his wife, however,
managed to save this picture
from theDucal Chamber, and we
next hear of it in the Riccardi
Collection, where it was pur¬
chased by Senator Crespi, act¬
ing on the advice of Morelli, of
Milan.
Mr. Rudolf Seckel has suc¬
ceeded in getting together some
fifty Diirer engravings on cop¬
per, which will be on view till
j^N THE GALLERIES
XXI