FINE ARTS IN 1901. 



sits 11 shadowy Christ sitting in a glow of light 

 : .. hind a table, on which are a chalice, a plate, a 

 v;i>e, and an antique lamp, and at each end of 

 the table a figure in Eastern costume, listening to 

 his words. Save the light in their front the two 

 men are in strong shadow. 



J. J. Rousseau exhibited several characteristic 

 cattle pieces, and Firniiu-Girard The Pavement of 

 the Central Paris Market. 



Paris: Miscellaneous. At the sale of the 

 Georges Feydeau collection, in February, the ag- 

 gregate receipts were 513,000 francs. Some of the 

 prices obtained were: Boudin. Le Port de Cam- 

 aret, 11.250 francs: Le Port d'Anvers, 2,560; 

 Trouville Market. 5.400: Brest Harbor, 8,100; Rot- 

 terdam. 8,200: L'ficlaircie, 10,000; View of Ant- 

 werp, li.850; Environs of Trouville, 7,000; Douar- 

 ni'iu'z Harbor, 4,200; Outer Dock at Trouville, 

 4.650. Corot, Twilight, 10,000; The Tower, 17,200. 

 Carolus-Duran, La Fille de 1'Emir, 6,000. Dau- 

 mier. The Hath, 3.000; The Amateurs, 15,200. 

 I Max. The Thicket, 7,500. Isabey, The Port, 10,500. 

 .Jacqite, Horse and Sheep, 3,300. Jongkind, Dutch 

 Canal. S.310: Environs of Nevers, 7,100; La Rue 

 de TAbbe de TEpee, 9,150. Monet, Rocks at 

 Etretat in the Morning, 7,200; do. in the Even- 

 ing. 6,900; Hoarfrost, 11,000; Meadow, 6,700; 

 Rocks at Belle Isle, 5,500; Poppy Field, 9,100. 

 Pissaro, Rouen Fog Effect, 10,000. Renoir, Gar- 

 den at Fontenay, 7,000; Peonies, 3,800. Ricard, 

 Girl's Head, 9,550. Ribot, Kitchen Scene, 9,050. 

 De Sisley, Banks of the Loing, 5,600; Garden at 

 Louveciennes, 11,100; The Tow-Path, 7,350; Moret 

 Bridge, 28,000; Argenteuil Bridge, 10,000; Birches 

 and Acacias, 5,300. Stevens, Girl Reading, 5,000. 

 Ziem, Venice, 8,900; St. Sophia at Constantinople, 

 5,100; Grand Canal at Sunset, 19,000. 



M. Charles de Beriot's collection, sold at the 

 Hotel Drouot in March, realized a total of 388,950 

 francs. Among the best prices obtained were: 

 Jongkind, Honfleur, 7,900 francs; Notre Dame, 

 7,000; Patineurs a Oversalie (Holland), 9,000; 

 Canal at Dordrecht, 16,600; Rotterdam la Nuit, 

 12.700; Vue de Maassluis, 31,000; Clair de Lune, 

 9,000; Patineurs, 19,100; Marseille, 10,000. Har- 

 pignies, Saules a l'Arrire-Saison, 13,050; La Ri- 

 viere, 8.250; Maison Refletee, 10,950; Laveuses, 

 9,700; Chenes de Chateau-Renard, 14,800. Monet's 

 Jardins de 1'Infante brought 10,300 and Boudin's 

 Anvers 12,950 francs. 



The collection of the Abb6 Gauguin, sold in 

 May, realized 127,400 francs. Claude Monet's 

 Printemps a Giverny brought 8,300 and De Sis- 

 ley's Gelee Blanche 9,200 francs. Another collec- 

 tion, sold in the same month, produced a total of 

 348,000 francs. Among the best prices obtained 

 were: Courbet, Le Rt>veil, 13,000 francs. Charles 

 Jacquet, Le Retour du Troupeau, 37,500. Ziem, 

 La Flotte sortant du Port d'Anvers, 35,000; Le 

 Canal Venise, 34,000; Le Soir sur la Grand 

 Canal. 23.000 francs. 



London: Royal Academy. The thirty-second 

 annual winter exhibition was devoted to the 

 works of British artists deceased since 1850, about 



W i pictures by 61 artists. It included examples 

 of Turner, Frederick Walker, George Mason, Mil- 

 lais, Land.seer. Rossetti, Madox Brown, Alfred 

 Stevens, Calderon, and others. Among the exam- 

 ples by Turner were Conway Castle and the 

 Wreck of the Minotaur: by Rossetti, Fiametta; 

 and by Madox Brown, Chaucer at the Court of 

 Edward III. 



The one hundred and thirty-third summer ex- 

 hibition, with more than 1,800 entries, was about 

 equal in artistic importance to the one of last 

 year. As in that exhibition, the pictures of John 

 S. Sargent, the American painter, dominated all 



the rest. The London Athenaeum says: " It must 

 be admitted that, if all the other pictures in this 

 exhibition pass into oblivion, Mr. Sargent's are 

 likely to survive."' Among his exhibits w r ere por- 

 traits of Mrs. Schreiber, Mrs. Russell, Sir Charles 

 Sitwell and Family, Mrs. Cazalet and Children, 

 and Daughters of A. Wertheimer, Esq. The last 

 is a- masterpiece. 



Sir Edw T ard J. Poynter, president of the acad- 

 emy, contributed but one picture to the exhibi- 

 tion, a version in oil of a water-color of 1899, en- 

 titled Helena and Hermia. It represents two 

 classic maidens, on a marble seat covered with 

 an orange cushion, under a laurel hedge beside a 

 great pine trunk, working on a sampler. The 

 studies for the background, w r hich disclose an ex- 

 panse of water and mountains, were made at the 

 Lake of Orta. 



Sir Laurence Alma-Tadema's usual classical and 

 archeological composition, entitled Under the 

 Roof of Blue Ionian Weather, is concerned with 

 lightly draped, garlanded figures, grouped about 

 a semicircular lounge of white marble. His por- 

 trait of Prof. George Aitchison is for the Royal 

 Institute of British Architects, of which he was 

 president in 1896-'99. 



Edwin A. Abbey, another American academi- 

 cian, sent a large canvas entitled Crusaders Sight- 

 ing Jerusalem, one of the most successful pictures- 

 of the year. Three Knights Templars, in chain 

 mail and tabards showing a great cross, have 

 gained a height in advance of their fellows, seen 

 in the distance below, and are eagerly looking 

 for the city. One stands erect, holding aloft the 

 great banner; a second, kneeling, directs his eyes 

 heavenward; and the third, kneeling lower at 

 right, holds up before his face his cross-hilted 

 sword. 



Seymour Lucas's Clouds that gather Round the 

 Setting Sun depicts an incident in the later days 

 of Cardinal Wolsey. The yet powerful minister, 

 in the robes of a cardinal, is vvalking amid the 

 yew hedges of Hampton Court, with the red- 

 roofed palace, mellowed by evening light, in the 

 background. Absorbed in meditation, he appears- 

 to take no heed of several sumptuously dressed 

 persons who look after him as he passes. 



Benjamin Constant sent his Queen Victoria, 

 which was first exhibited at the Paris Exposition 

 of last year. The Queen is represented in regal 

 attire throned in an alcove of the House of Lords, 

 through whose windows filters golden light. The 

 crowned head is veiled in gossamer lace, which 

 falls over the shoulders and arms, and the bust 

 is crossed by the broad blue ribbon. By command 

 of the King, the west wall of the central gallery 

 w r as devoted exclusively to this picture. 



Hubert Herkomer's A Zither Evening with my 

 Students in my Studio illustrates an incident in 

 the history of the Bushey Art School, founded by 

 himself, which is sufficiently explained by the title. 



Other noteworthy pictures were Luke Fildes's 

 portrait of The Hon. Mrs. Marshall Brooks, E. 

 Blair Leighton's The Accolade, B. W. Leader's The 

 Weald of Surrey, J. W. Waterhouse's The Mer- 

 maid, and Sheridan Knowles's Home Again, the 

 last representing a soldier returned from the wars. 



London: New Gallery. The winter exhibi- 

 tion was devoted to the works of Sir W. B. Rich- 

 mond, of which 495 were show r n. It represented 

 all the phases of his painting under the several 

 influences of Millais, Burne-Jones, Watts, and 

 Leighton. One of the most interesting pictures 

 was The Sisters, painted in 1864, representing the 

 three daughters of the late Dean Liddell, for the 

 youngest of whom Alice in Wonderland was writ- 

 ten. 





