International studio (49.1913)

Iii the Galleries

Courtesy of the Montross Galleries


OUR LADY BY" HENRY GOLDEN DEARTH
are so perfect that even the keen eye of the expert
is often deceived between original and reproduc-
tion.
Portfolios of sixty of the best Da Vinci drawings
and sixty of Watteau’s are among the many desir-
able numbers in their collection.
March 8 concluded a very interesting experi-
ment at the Ehrich Galleries, namely, a compara-
tive portrait exhibition, including two specially
selected portraits of each of the early English,
French, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, German and
Italian schools. To the student nothing can be
more interesting than such a grouping, covering
the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centur-
ies. The Dutch school showed a Cuyp, an out-
door pose of the artist Mieris and wife, life size,
and a portrait of a Princess oj Orange, by Maes.
Reynolds and Lawrence were the English pair,
while Tintoret and Moroni were selected to repre-
sent the Italian school. A David and Drouais
were excellent evidence of eighteenth-century
French portraiture, the Prefect of Police, by the
latter, being one of the most interesting canvases
on view.
An Exhibition of Unappreciated Works of Art,
exclusively by American artists, was announced

the end of March by the New York Associa-
tion for the Blind, with the idea of paying
off the mortgage on the new Lighthouse for
the Blind, the exhibit to consist of painting
and sculpture in Impressionist, Cubist and
Futurist style. As this was a future event at
time of going to press, we cannot chronicle
results.
The Whitney Warren Exhibition at the
Columbia University, New York
As a feature of the movement which has
for its objective the establishment of a French
Institute and Museum in New York, a lec-
ture on French Architecture was given by
Prof. A. D. F. Hamlin, Thursday evening,
February 27, in the Avery Library.
At the same time there was initiated a fine
exhibition of material related to French archi-
tecture selected by Mr. Whitney Warren from
his abundant collections, and loaned by him
to the Avery Library for two months
or more.
The chief feature of this exhibition is a series
of French architectural engravings of the seven-
teenth and eighteenth centuries. Four of these
are large plates; two representing the Galerie
des Glaces and the grand stairway at Versail-
and two representing the decorative archi-
tecture of extensive fetes at Versailles. The re-
maining forty-eight plates are smaller and repre-
sent various decorative motives. These are ar-
ranged so that similar subjects are brought to-
gether, and only one or two by the same master
are exhibited. In this manner an extraordinary
variety of stylistic effect is secured.
The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in
France were prodigiously fertile in these inven-
tions, which were frequently engraved directly
upon the copper with great skill.
In addition to these engravings, Mr. Warren
exhibits several drawings from his unique collec-
tions of designs for ships made in the same
period, when ships, like everything else, were
expected to carry as much magnificence as pos-
sible. His collection of ships was made to assist
in the design for the Yacht Club Building in New
York.
Mr. Warren has also placed upon easels a rather
complete series of the brilliant sketches for the
decorative sculpture of the Grand Central Sta-
tion by Sylvan Salieres, Second, Grand Prix de
Rome, originally from Toulouse, and now in New
York City.

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