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,,department ,,of      ,,volume #f      
,,fine ,,arts          ,,number #i      
,,twenty ,,cents ,a ,,copy              
,,does ,,art ,,pay8      8,art is a vain
 pursuit10 says the shop-keeper4 ,in    
that conviction many  an immortal       
painter1 like ,corot1 has1 in his youth1
 been packed off  from home by a        
shop-keeping parent1 and made to shift  
for himself4 8,the  stomach must be     
filled10 exclaims the shop-keeper1 8let 
,art wait on  that40 ,to which the young
 painter answers1 8,art must find       
expression  first4 ,let the stomach     

wait40 ,and so the shop-keeper and      
painter pursue  their separate ways1 and
 it often happens1 in the course of     
time1  that they come together again4   
,the painter gains recognition1 and his 
pictures make him famous4 ,the          
shop-keeper rises to be a millionaire   
merchant--and becomes a patron of ,art4 
,illustration    ,it is all very well to
 talk1 as some cultured people do1 about
 ,art as a  kind of goddess that calls  
into existence paintings1 statues1      
temples1  and museums1 but1 as ,william 
,c4 ,prime observed some years ago1     
8,art is1  after all1 a practical work4 
,her noblest products and her homeliest 
always did and do cost money4 ,that was 
a wise thought1 in the earliest  days of
 ,art1 of the monarch who recorded on   
the ,great ,pyramid the  quantity of    
onions1 and radishes1 and garlic        
consumed by its builders40              
,illustration    ,there are still left  
some who ask1 #8,what is the use of     
beauty8 ,what  is the practical good of 

increasing art production8 ,how does it 
pay8'  ,the life blood of modern        
commerce and industry is the love of    
beauty4  ,a great city1 its wealth and  
power1 rest on this foundation--trade in
  beauty1 buying and selling beauty4 ,is
 there any exaggeration in this8  ,begin
 with the lowest possible illustration  
and ask the questioner1  #8,why are your
 boots polished8 ,why did you pay ten   
cents for a shine8  ,how many thousand  
times ten cents are paid every day in a 
city for  beauty of boots8'             
,illustration    ,take from the people  
their love of color1 their various      
tastes in  cotton prints1 and one       
factory would supply all the wants      
supplied by  fifty4 ,consider for one   
instant what is the trade that supports 
your  long avenues of stores crowded    
with purchasers1 not only in holiday    
times1 but all the year around4         
,enumerate carpets1 upholstery1 wall    
papers1 furniture1 handsome houses1 the 
innumerable beauties of life  that      

employ millions of people in their      
production1 and you will  realize that1 
but for the commercial and industrial   
love of beauty1 a  city would be a      
wilderness1 steamers and railways would 
vanish1 wealth  would be poverty1       
population would starve4 ,yes1 there is 
money in  teaching people to love       
beautiful things4                       
,illustration3 ,,in ,,the ,,metropolitan
 ,,museum ,,of ,,art1 ,,new ,,york      
,,portrait ,,of ,,federigo ,,gonzaga1   
,,by ,,francia          ,,the           
,,metropolitan ,,museum ,,of ,,art      
,francia    ,,one      ,though ,francia 
can hardly be ranked with the giants of 
,italian art1 he  has given us a number 
of placid altarpieces and a few         
exceptionally  attractive portraits4    
,the portrait of ,federigo ,gonzaga is  
one of the  best from his brush4        
,francia1 a shortening of ,francesco1   
was born in  ,bologna1 ,italy1 in the   
year #adej or thereabout4 ,he took the  
family  name of the goldsmith1          

,raibolini1 to whom he was apprenticed  
at the  beginning of his artistic       
career4 ,as a worker in metal he did    
some  die-cutting for medals1 and       
designed some highly decorative pieces  
of  jewelry4 ,we have an indication of  
his interest in this phase of art in    
the necklace worn by ,federigo ,gonzaga4
 ,when ,lorenzo ,costa1 later known  as 
the head of the ,bolognese ,school of   
painters1 settled in ,bologna1  ,francia
 became his intimate friend1 and from   
that time on seems to  have devoted his 
attention to painting4 ,as regards the  
graceful pose  and expression of his    
figures1 he belonged among the followers
 of  ,perugino1 a painter who had a     
strong influence upon the work of his   
most illustrious pupil1 ,raphael4       
,francia's earliest dated altarpiece    
was completed when he was about         
forty-five1 but he had probably been    
working in conjunction with ,costa for a
 number of years before that  time4     
,professor ,john ,c4 ,van ,dyke1 in his 

8,history of ,painting10 tells  us that 
,francia's 8color was usually cold1 his 
drawing a little sharp  at first1 as    
showing the goldsmith's hand1 the       
surfaces smooth1 the  detail elaborate40
 ,francia died in the year #aeag4       
,the tale of the way in which the       
commission was received to paint the    
portrait shown in this gravure is       
interesting4 ,federigo was the son of   
,francesco ,gonzaga1 ,marquis of        
,mantua1 and ,isabella d',este1 the     
famous  art patron4 ,while fighting in  
the company of the ,milanese against    
the ,venetians at ,legnago1 the ,marquis
 was captured1 but through the          
intervention of the pope was liberated4 
,however1 the pope demanded as a        
hostage ,francesco's son1 ,federigo1    
then ten years of age1 stipulating  that
 he be sent to the papal court at ,rome4
 ,the boy's mother1 on being  parted    
from him1 insisted that she have a      
portrait of him1 and on the  journey to 
,rome1 in ,july1 #aeaj1 he halted at    

,bologna1 where his father  was1 and    
visited the studio of ,francia4 ,in ten 
days the artist had  completed the      
portrait with the exception of the      
background1 which was  finished later4  
,the noble mother was much pleased with 
the result1 and  in expressing her      
gratification to the painter sent him   
thirty ducats  of gold4 ,we have in her 
own words the statement that 8it is     
impossible  to see a better portrait or 
a closer resemblance40    ,the panel1 a 
singularly perfect example of ,francia's
 careful manner  of painting1 passed    
from ,isabella d',este to a gentleman   
who had done  her a service1 and        
thereafter remained in obscurity until1 
over three  centuries later1 it appeared
 in a ,london auction room in the       
collection  of ,prince ,jerome          
,bonaparte4 ,later it came into the     
possession of ,mr4  ,altman1 who        
bequeathed it to the ,metropolitan      
,museum of ,art4        ,,prepared ,,by 
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,illustration3 ,,in ,,the ,,altman      
,,collection1 ,,metropolitan ,,museum   
,,of ,,art1  ,,new ,,york    ,,old      
,,woman ,,cutting ,,her ,,nails1 ,,by   
,,rembrandt          ,,the              
,,metropolitan ,,museum ,,of ,,art      
,rembrandt van ,rijn    ,,two      ,the 
keeping of a few dates in mind greatly  
aids in understanding  ,rembrandt's     
pictures4 ,his birth date has been      
variously given as  #afje1 #afjf1 and   
#afjg4 ,rembrandt's story has been told 
at length in  previous numbers of ,the  
,mentor4 ,it is said that 8whatever he  
turned to  was treated with that breadth
 of view that overlooked the little and 
grasped the great40 ,his earliest work  
dates from #afbg4 ,in #afcb came  his   
first great success1 the famous 8,lesson
 in ,anatomy40 ,he was at  that time    

living in ,amsterdam1 having moved there
 from his birth city1  ,leyden1         
,holland4 ,pupils and patrons flocked to
 his studios1 and the  world was very   
bright4 ,he became the best-known       
portrait painter of the  richest art and
 commercial center of ,holland4 ,in     
#afcd he married ,saskia  van           
,uylenborch1 daughter of an aristocratic
 family and a young girl of  attractive 
qualities1 who brought him many friends 
and bore him four  children4 ,rembrandt 
loved his wife devotedly4 ,he made many 
portraits  of her1 including one of her 
with himself that hangs in the ,royal   
,gallery at ,dresden4 ,in #afda1 the    
fourth child was born1 a son1 whom  they
 named ,titus4 ,a portrait of this      
8,golden ,lad10 as his father liked  to 
call him1 hangs in the ,metropolitan    
,museum4 ,it was painted when he  was   
fourteen3 8,the wide-set eyes and full  
upper lids mark his artistic            
inheritance1 but the far-away haunting  
expression seems a premonition  of his  

death in early manhood40 ,saskia's death
 came in #afdb1 when ,titus  was less   
than a year old4    ,broken by the loss 
of his wife1 ,rembrandt continued to    
paint under  increasingly bitter        
circumstances1 but his work showed no   
diminution in  merit1 only a deeper     
feeling4 ,when he was about thirty-five 
he received  an order to paint ,captain 
,banning ,cock's company of ,dutch      
musketeers4  ,his manner of handling the
 lights and shadows of this renowned    
masterpiece was misunderstood by ,french
 writers of a later period1 who  called 
it 8,the ,night ,patrol10 and ,sir      
,joshua ,reynolds1 falling into the     
same error1 named it 8,the ,night       
,watch10 instead of 8,the ,day ,watch40 
,great dissatisfaction followed the     
original exhibition of this sortie  of  
the civic guards through the jealousy of
 those that thought they had  been      
slighted in the composition of the      
grouping4 ,this dissatisfaction  cost   
,rembrandt much subsequent patronage1   

and thereafter he was no  longer the    
darling of ,amsterdam1 but a man        
saddened by personal griefs  and        
overwhelmed by adversity4    8,the      
,mill10 now in the ,widener ,collection 
in ,philadelphia1 was executed  during  
this dark period of ,rembrandt's life4  
,under the same influences  he painted  
8,the ,old ,woman ,cutting ,her ,nails10
 judged one of the rarest  gems of all  
the ,rembrandt pictures owned in this   
country4 ,it portrays  the sympathetic  
feeling of the artist for old age1 and  
is 8typical of  the careworn1           
sorrow-wrecked woman of all time40 ,says
 a critic1 8,this  picture is simply of 
a poor old woman intent on cutting her  
nails1 with  a pair of sheep-shears it  
seems1 yet we are overcome with the     
power of  it--no details1 dull in color1
 homely in subject1 but bathed with a   
light that never was on land or sea4    
,rembrandt's light6 ,what cared he  for 
poverty or neglect with such a comforter
 at hand80 ,the 8,portrait of           

,rembrandt0 in the ,museum was painted  
by himself when he was fifty-four1  and 
is one of about sixty self-portraits4   
,in #affh1 he painted the 8,man  with a 
,magnifying ,glass40 ,this1 too1 hangs  
in the ,museum1 and also the  grim      
8,pilate ,washing ,his ,hands40 ,the    
last picture purchased by ,mr4  ,altman1
 whose entire collection was obtained in
 the space of a few  years1 was 8,the   
,toilet of ,bathsheba10 thought by many 
judges to be the  loveliest of          
,rembrandt's pictures that tell a story4
 ,it was painted in  #afdc4             
,rembrandt died in #affi4 ,twelve years 
before1 he had been sold out  of house  
and home4 ,it is said that there are in 
,america today more  paintings by this  
greatest of ,dutch masters than in any  
one country of  ,europe4 ,thirteen      
pictures signed by him became a part of 
the ,altman  ,collection4 ,there are now
 about one hundred ,rembrandt paintings 
owned  in this country4 ,the 8,orphan   
,girl at ,window0 is in the ,art        

,institute1  ,chicago4 ,mr4 ,frick1 of  
,new ,york1 acquired the so-called      
8,polish ,rider0  and 8,rembrandt       
,seated40 ,other examples of            
,rembrandt's genius are in  galleries in
 ,boston1 ,philadelphia1 ,new ,york1 and
 ,cincinnati4        ,,prepared ,,by    
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,illustration3 ,,in ,,the ,,metropolitan
 ,,museum ,,of ,,art1 ,,new ,,york      
,,james ,,stuart1 ,,duke ,,of ,,lennox1 
,,by ,,van ,,dyck          ,,the        
,,metropolitan ,,museum ,,of ,,art      
,anthony van ,dyck    ,,three      ,the 
,metropolitan ,museum offers an unusual 
chance for the study of  ,van ,dyck's   
7dike7 portraits1 though it possesses   
none of his figure  subjects4 ,in point 
of time1 the 8,portrait of a ,man0 from 
the ,marquand  ,collection in the       

,museum is probably the earliest of the 
eight  portraits attributed to him4 ,for
 a long time it was attributed to  ,van 
,dyck's master1 ,rubens4 ,the 8,portrait
 of a ,lady0 7holding a black  feather  
fan7 from the same source1 seems also to
 belong to the first  ,antwerp period4  
,van ,dyck was born in ,antwerp on      
,march #bb1 #aeii4 ,in  #afba1 when he  
was twenty-two years of age1 ,rubens    
advised him to visit  ,italy4 ,aside    
from some occasional journeys1 he seems 
to have spent  his time at ,genoa1 and  
for nearly five years he painted the    
nobility  of that thriving port4 ,it was
 during these years that the 8,marchesa 
,durazzo0 of the ,altman ,collection was
 done1 as was also the portrait of  his 
friend and fellow-townsman1 ,lucas van  
,uffel1 whose activities as  a merchant 
had brought him to ,genoa4 ,upon his    
return ,van ,dyck worked  for five years
 in ,antwerp1 painting during that time 
many altarpieces  and religious subjects
 for the churches and chapels of the    

city4 ,the  portrait of ,baron ,arnold  
,le ,roy 7,hearn ,collection7 was       
probably painted  within this period4   
,from ,antwerp1 ,van ,dyck went to      
,london at the invitation of ,charles   
,i4 ,many portraits of the king1 of     
,queen ,henrietta and their children    
testify to the high esteem in which he  
was held4 ,his popularity was so  great 
and his commissions so numerous that he 
was compelled to hire a  number of      
assistants4 ,the helpers painted the    
costumes and draperies of  the          
portraits1 while their employer limited 
his brush to the painting  of the faces 
and hands4    ,the portraits of the     
famous art patron1 ,the ,earl of        
,arundel and his  grandson1 and of      
,james ,stuart1 ,duke of ,lennox1 came  
in this period1  when the artist's short
 life of forty-two years was drawing to 
a close4  ,the ,duke of ,lennox was a   
cousin of the king1 who created him     
first ,duke  of ,richmond4 ,the ,duke is
 said to have offered to ascend the     

scaffold  in the place of his noble     
cousin when ,charles ,i was condemned4  
,whether  the rank of the sitter        
prevented ,van ,dyck from allowing his  
assistants  to have anything to do with 
the portrait we cannot know positively1 
but seldom has a more superb portrait   
come from his brush4 ,how  remorselessly
 the weakness of his character is given6
 ,note the mastery  in the placing of   
the star of the ,order of the ,garter1  
and the emphasis  given to the devotion 
of the superbly painted greyhound4      
,there came into the market a few years 
ago a number of portraits  from one of  
the old ,genoese palaces1 where they had
 hung since ,van  ,dyck painted them4 ,a
 majority of these pictures passed into 
,american  collections4 ,two were       
secured by ,mr4 ,frick1 and three more  
became a  part of the ,widener          
,collection in ,philadelphia1 where they
 hang in the  company of two others of  
this master's fine canvases4            
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,illustration3 ,,in ,,the ,,metropolitan
 ,,museum ,,of ,,art1 ,,new ,,york      
,,young ,,woman ,,with ,a ,,water ,,jug1
 ,,by ,,vermeer          ,,the          
,,metropolitan ,,museum ,,of ,,art      
,jan ,vermeer    ,,four      ,less than 
two score of ,vermeer's pictures are    
known to us today1 and1  of these1 eight
 or nine are now in the ,united ,states4
 ,any one of them  is worth a fortune4  
,in this case artistic and commercial   
values go  together4 ,little is known   
about ,vermeer4 ,the dates of his birth 
and  death 7#afcb-afge7 have been found 
in his native ,delft4 ,there he lived   
and worked for forty-three years4 ,an   
early traveler1 describing ,delft1      
mentions ,vermeer1 and states that his  
pictures were much sought after4  ,they 

were originally valued at six hundred   
livres1 equivalent to about  one hundred
 and fifty dollars1 in those days       
considered a large sum4  ,vermeer's     
family was large1 and he was fairly     
prosperous4 ,but after his  death1 for  
some unknown reason1 he seems soon to   
have been forgotten4  ,houbraken1 the   
chronicler of the ,dutch painters1 did  
not mention him1  and this neglect      
possibly accounts partly for the        
oblivion into which  his work sank4     
,the reason why ,vermeer's contemporary 
fame was not greater is not far  to     
seek4 ,the ,dutch artists were all      
finished craftsmen4 ,de ,hooch1         
,terborch1 and ,metsu are painters of   
the same high rank as ,vermeer4  ,jan   
,steen1 the ,van ,ostades1 and some of  
the lesser men were hardly  inferior4   
,moreover1 not only was there little    
traveling on the part of  the art       
patrons in those days1 but the artist   
could seldom think of  moving from one  
town to another because he would have   

had to purchase  burgher-rights and     
guild-rights in each new place of       
residence4 ,after  settling1 and having 
once established a demand for their     
pictures1 we  seldom find the ,dutch    
artists moving on to evils they knew not
 of in  other cities4 ,in consequence1  
the artist's fame1 however              
well-deserved1  rarely spread beyond a  
very limited range4 ,vermeer's early    
death and  the small number of pictures 
finished by him prevented his work from 
being widely known1 and contributed more
 than anything else to its  being soon  
forgotten4    ,in #ahff1 interest in    
,vermeer revived through the            
publications of ,e4 ,t4  ,j4 ,thore1 who
 wrote under the pen name of ,w4 ,brger4
 ,the greater part  of ,vermeer's       
pictures consist of light-flooded       
interiors1 with usually  but a single   
figure4 ,sometimes a 8,music ,lesson0   
will show master and  pupil1 but seldom 
are there more than three or four       
figures4 ,there are  two famous outdoor 

scenes--the smaller in the ,jan ,six    
,collection at  ,amsterdam1 the larger  
in the ,maritshuis 7marits-heuse7 at    
,the ,hague4  ,then there are three or  
four portraits1 surrounded by           
atmosphere1 and  brilliant in lighting4 
,lastly there are a few canvases very   
different  from any of these others1    
painted with a broad brush on a larger  
scale  and with great fluency4 ,this    
seems to be the style towards which     
,vermeer was changing when he died4     
,five of this artist's pictures were    
shown at the ,hudson-,fulton            
,exhibition4 ,the one in the ,altman    
,collection  has suffered seriously     
through cleaning and restoration1 and is
 not so  fine as the subject of this    
gravure4        ,,prepared ,,by ,,the   
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,illustration3 ,,in ,,the ,,metropolitan
 ,,museum ,,of ,,art1 ,,new ,,york      
,,salome1 ,,by ,,regnault          ,,the
 ,,metropolitan ,,museum ,,of ,,art     
,henri ,regnault    ,,five      ,this   
picture1 8,salome0 7sa-lo-mee71 is the  
masterpiece of a ,french  artist of     
great promise who was killed in battle  
at the close of the  ,franco-,prussian  
,war4 ,born at ,paris1 ,october #cj1    
#ahdc1 ,henri ,regnault  7rane-yoe7 was 
brought up in surroundings where the    
best of taste  reigned1 his father being
 connected with the porcelain           
establishment  at ,svres 7sayvr74 ,he   
early showed artistic promise1 and after
 three  trials carried off the ,prix de 
,rome at the age of twenty-three4 ,the  
income from this prize1 together with   
the additional funds which his  family  
provided1 enabled him to travel in      
,spain and ,morocco after he  had       
finished his novitiate at ,rome4 ,he had
 been drawn to the study of  oriental   
color through having come under the     

influence of ,fortuny's  work while at  
,rome1 an influence which affected all  
of his later  pictures4    ,his love of 
color is well shown in the 8,salome40   
,the model was an  ,italian gypsy girl  
of the ,campagna 7cam-pan-yuh71 and it  
was not until  the picture was well     
advanced that this title was given to   
it4 ,it is  hardly as a characterization
 of the light-footed daughter of        
,herodias  that the painting charms1    
though the naming was apt4 ,its         
attraction  lies in the marvelous       
harmony of yellows1 and in its daring   
reversal of  the ,rembrandt method4     
,rembrandt surrounded his light with    
shadow--here  there is the shining black
 of the touseled head in the midst of   
gleaming silk and radiant spangles4     
,everything superfluous has been        
eliminated4 ,what detail there is1--the 
chest1 the salver1 the rug1 is all in   
keeping with the design as a  whole4 ,no
 description can do justice to the      
handling of the textiles1  or suggest   

the accuracy of their values4 ,the      
marvel of it is how  so many tones of   
yellow could be heaped one upon the     
other without  wearying the eye4        
,regnault's death was deeply mourned by 
his fellow-artists4 ,he was  exempt from
 military duty because of having won the
 ,prix de ,rome1 but  at the outbreak of
 the war he insisted that he was needed1
 and enlisted  as a private in the #fjth
 ,battalion4 ,when urged to accept a    
commission  he replied1 8,i cannot allow
 you to make of a good soldier an       
inferior  officer40 ,just a few days    
before the capitulation of ,paris1 he   
was  killed in a sortie at ,buzenval1   
,january #ai1 #ahga4    ,two of his     
pictures1 a portrait of ,general ,prim  
and the 8,execution  without ,judgment  
under the ,caliphs10 are in the ,louvre4
 ,one of his  finest canvases1          
8,automedon with the ,horses of         
,achilles10 is in the  ,boston ,museum  
of ,fine ,arts4 ,a study for the ,boston
 picture is in a  private gallery in    

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,illustration3 ,,in ,,the ,,fletcher    
,,collection1 ,,metropolitan ,,museum   
,,of ,,art1  ,,new ,,york    ,,glebe    
,,farm1 ,,with ,,the ,,tower ,,of       
,,langham ,,church1 ,,by ,,constable    
,,the ,,metropolitan ,,museum ,,of ,,art
    ,john ,constable    ,,six      ,that
 the ,metropolitan ,museum should have  
so splendid an example of  ,constable's 
style is most fortunate4 ,for it is just
 the richness  and glow of color that   
are seen in the 8,glebe ,farm0 that make
 the  8,cornfield10 the 8,hay ,wain0 and
 the 8,valley ,farm0 of the ,london     
,national ,gallery so supremely fine4   
,while not so ambitious as these or  the
 much larger 8,white ,horse10 shown at  
the time the paintings of the  ,j4      

,pierpont ,morgan ,collection were on   
exhibition1 it is quite in the  same    
class4    ,constable's struggle for     
recognition was long and arduous4 ,after
  persistent opposition on the part of  
his fiance's family1 he was  married    
when forty years old4 ,there followed   
twelve years of happiness2  the death of
 his wife at the end of that time was a 
blow from which  ,constable never       
recovered4 ,his election as an          
,academician came within  three months  
of her death1 but his reply to the      
announcement was1 8,it  has been delayed
 until ,i am solitary and cannot impart 
it40    ,constable was born in ,suffolk 
,county1 ,england1 ,june #aa1 #aggf1 and
  lived to be sixty-one years of age4   
,he became a student at the ,royal      
,academy when he was twenty-three4      
,three years later he exhibited his     
first picture4 ,strangely enough1 his   
work was appreciated in ,france  before 
it won its way at home4 ,he exerted a   
marked influence upon the  rising school

 of ,french landscape painters4 ,a medal
 was awarded him for  pictures exhibited
 at the ,salon in #ahbd1 and the next   
year the 8,white  ,horse0 won another   
for him at ,lille4 ,during the early    
years of his  career1 commissions for   
portraits were undertaken as a temporary
 relief  to his finances4 ,one of the   
best of these portraits hangs in the    
,hearn  ,collection at the ,metropolitan
 ,museum4    ,constable's pictures are  
very uneven in merit1 but whether       
successful  or not1 there is always     
evident a sturdy love for nature and a  
faithful  effort to record her moods4   
,he never painted anything but his      
beloved  ,england1 and few of her       
artist-lovers have surpassed him in     
depicting  her rural beauties4 ,many of 
his canvases are as glowing with color  
as a  hillside after a shower4 ,his     
compositions are seldom grandiloquent1  
as  are some of ,turner's1 but even     
,turner did not have a better eye for   
the  dramatic placing of a              

thunder-cloud4 ,like ,corot1 ,constable 
portrayed  again and again a few scenes 
and localities that he knew thoroughly1 
painting first from one angle and then  
changing to a new point of view4  ,the  
sincerity of the artist speaks from even
 the hastiest sketch4  ,england no      
longer withholds her admiration for his 
work2 his pictures  now command the     
prices brought by 8old masters40        
,,prepared ,,by ,,the ,,editorial       
,,staff ,,of ,,the ,,mentor             
,,association      ,,illustration ,,for 
,,the ,,mentor1 ,,vol4 #f1 ,no4 #i4     
,,serial ,no4 #aeg      ,,copyright1    
#aiah1 ,,by ,,the ,,mentor              
,,association1 ,,inc4          ,,the    
,,mentor   ,,june #ae1 #aiah            
,,department ,,of ,,fine ,,arts    ,the 
,metropolitan ,museum of ,art1 ,new     
,york    ,by ,,sydney ,p4 ,,noe         
,,mentor ,,gravures        ,,portrait   
,,of ,,federigo ,,gonzaga        ,by    
,francia        ,,old ,,woman ,,cutting 
,,her ,,nails        ,by ,rembrandt     

,,james ,,stuart1 ,,duke ,,of ,,lennox  
,by ,van ,dyck        ,illustration     
,,mentor ,,gravures        ,,young      
,,woman ,,with ,a ,,water-,,jug         
,by ,vermeer        ,,salome        ,by 
,regnault        ,,glebe ,,farm1 ,,with 
,,the ,,tower ,,of ,,langham ,,church   
,by ,constable        ,illustration     
,illustration3 ,,portrait ,,of ,,henry  
,g4 ,,marquand4 ,by ,john ,s4 ,sargent  
,mr4 ,marquand was the second president 
of the ,metropolitan ,museum            
,entered as second-class matter ,march  
#aj1 #aiac1 at the      postoffice at   
,new ,york1 ,n4 ,y41 under the act of   
,march #c1 #ahgi4      ,copyright1      
#aiah1 by ,the ,mentor ,association1    
,inc4        ,,note4--,in choosing the  
illustrations for this number1 we have  
selected1 for the most part1 pictures   
that have not been      reproduced in   
,the ,mentor heretofore4 ,the ,mentor   
has drawn      largely on the           
,metropolitan ,museum for illustrations1
 many of      the well-known            

masterpieces there having been          
reproduced in      one number or        
another4 ,a list of ,metropolitan       
,museum pictures      already published 
in ,the ,mentor will be supplied on     
request4      ,the ,metropolitan ,museum
 of ,art1 among all the art collections 
in our  country1 undoubtedly has the    
best claim to first importance1 and is  
becoming more and more a place of       
pilgrimage for the hosts that visit     
,new ,york each year4    ,the           
,metropolitan ,museum has grown so that 
it is no longer to be  compassed in a   
morning visit4 ,the pictures alone      
require more than  that1 many times     
more1 and they form but one department4 
,much greater  benefit will come from   
part of a day or a whole day spent with 
a single  school of painting4 ,as far as
 possible1 this is the way in which the 
pictures are hung1 but several bequests 
have been conditional upon  their being 
kept intact1 and a trip from one end of 
the building to  the other is sometimes 

necessary to compare pictures by the    
same  artist4 ,the paintings now owned  
number about twelve hundred4 ,not all of
  these are on exhibition1 but loaned   
pictures bring the total to about  that 
figure4    ,illustration3 ,,titus1 ,,son
 ,,of ,,rembrandt4 ,by ,rembrandt       
,new ,york was founded by the ,dutch1   
and it is a singular coincidence  that  
the ,dutch ,school is the strongest at  
the ,metropolitan ,museum4 ,both  ,hals 
and ,rembrandt1 the leaders of this     
school1 are well represented1  and in   
few ,european museums can ,rembrandt and
 his school be studied to  better       
purpose4 ,hals was born in #aehd1       
,rembrandt in #afjf4 ,rembrandt  worked 
in ,amsterdam1 ,hals at ,haarlem1 only  
fourteen miles away4 ,there  are several
 pictures attributed to ,hals1 the elder
 and younger1 and  the number is        
sometimes increased by loans4 8,the     
,merry ,company10 in  the ,altman       
,collection1 is more pretentious than   
the others1 but if it  could be hung    

between the two portraits in the        
,marquand ,room at the  head of the main
 stairway1 it would seem garish         
alongside the masterly  treatment of the
 blacks in the 8,portrait of a ,man10 or
 the wonderful  drawing of the hands in 
the 8,portrait of a ,woman40            
,illustration3 ,,wheatfields4 ,by ,jacob
 van ,ruisdael    ,the pictures by      
,rembrandt and his school are the chief 
glories of the  ,museum--no less than   
sixteen pictures are attributed to his  
hand4 ,in  an earlier number of ,the    
,mentor1 ,rembrandt's three styles have 
been  clearly distinguished4 ,it is to  
the first or 8gray0 period that the     
8,portrait of a ,man0 belongs1 and most 
admirably does it represent the  class4 
8,the ,man with a ,steel ,gorget0 falls 
in the middle or 8golden0  period4 ,the 
greater part of the pictures belong to  
the late period--the  years in which    
fortune no longer smiled1 and sorrow    
succeeded sorrow4  ,the portrait of     
,titus1 his son1 while still a lad1 must

 have come  early in this period1 and   
before troubles thickened4 ,a few years 
later  comes the 8,old ,woman ,cutting  
,her ,nails10 hailed by many as the     
finest  of the ,museum's ,rembrandts1   
but different from anything else by him 
there4 ,hanging beside it is the 8,lady 
with a ,pink0--a portrait with  an      
overpowering sense of reserve force4    
,what luminous shadows and  what living 
color it has6 ,so also with its         
companion piece1 though to  a lesser    
degree4 ,compare them with the two      
portraits of men in the  ,dutch ,room at
 the other end of the building4 ,they   
too come in the  late period4 ,what     
tremendous dignity and poise show forth 
from these  canvases6    ,gerard ,dou   
7dow7 worked under ,rembrandt in the    
8gray0 period4 ,the  small1 crisp       
8,portrait of the ,artist0 shows his    
change of style  after leaving the      
studio4 ,dou trimmed his sails to catch 
the wind  of fashion1 a thing that      
,rembrandt refused to do4 ,another      

pupil1  ,nicolaes ,maes1 worked with    
,rembrandt during the 8golden0 period4  
,he  gives us a brilliant piece of      
color1 a 8,young ,girl ,peeling         
,apples10 in  which the glow of red     
warms all the panel4 ,aert de ,gelder   
portrays a  sturdy 8,dutch ,admiral10   
and there is one of the far-stretching  
,dutch  landscapes by ,philip de        
,koninck4    ,illustration3 ,a ,,visit  
,,to ,,the ,,nursery4 ,by ,gabriel      
,metsu      ,dutch ,masters    ,the     
8,little ,masters of ,holland0 are      
present in strength4 ,metsu's  8,visit  
to the ,nursery10 which came from the   
,morgan ,collection1 is his             
masterpiece4 ,it is an intimate glimpse 
of home life that attracts  everyone1   
and is painted with a mastery that      
strengthens its human  appeal4 ,but     
,metsu is far surpassed by ,vermeer4    
,less than two score of  his pictures   
are known2 the ,metropolitan ,museum    
already owns two of  them1 and of these1
 the 8,young ,woman with a ,water-,jug10

 is of first  rank4    ,the landscape   
men should not be overlooked4 ,cuyp     
7koip7 has three  of his cattle         
pictures1 filled with sunlight2 and     
,hobbema1 one of  the rarest-met of the 
,dutchmen1 has a view of a ,dutch       
village4  8,wheatfields10 by ,jacob van 
,ruisdael 7rize-dale71 shows him at the 
summit of his powers4 ,it is superior to
 anything by him to be found in  the    
,european collections4 ,with its        
low-lying horizon and broad sky1 it  is 
typical of the best in the ,dutch       
treatment of landscape4                 
,illustration3 ,,portrait ,,of ,a ,,man4
 ,by ,dirk ,bouts    ,next to the       
,dutch1 the ,flemish is the one best    
represented among  the older schools4   
,high finish and purity of color are the
 chief  characteristics of these careful
 brushmen4 ,there is a tiny fragment  by
 ,jan van ,eyck 7ike7 78-#addj71 usually
 identified as a portrait of  ,thomas   
,becket4 ,a monumental 8,annunciation0  
is by ,roger van der  ,weyden1 with rich

 velvets and brocades and careful       
painting of details4  ,in the ,altman   
,collection there are four panels by    
,memling4 ,all are of  superior         
quality--in fact1 the 8,portrait of an  
,old ,man0 was for a long  time         
attributed to ,jan van ,eyck4 ,another  
portrait1 by ,dirk ,bouts1 has  the same
 directness and force1 and is almost    
equally fine4 ,this is  portraiture of  
the highest order4    ,illustration3    
,,portrait ,,of ,,an ,,old ,,man4 ,by   
,hans ,memling    ,rubens 7#aegg-afdj7  
brought a new spirit to the school4 ,one
 may obtain  at the ,metropolitan a     
fairly clear idea of his power and of   
the  influence of his style upon his    
fellow-artists1 although there are none 
of his finest creations present4 ,rubens
 relied upon the help of his  assistants
 more than most other artists4          
,indicating his intentions1  whether by 
a small sketch or roughly on the canvas 
itself1 he would  leave the carrying out
 to his pupils1 and afterwards correct  

or retouch  the parts that did not      
satisfy him4 ,the large 8,wolf and ,fox 
,hunt0 was  probably handled in some    
such way1 as were a number of these     
hunting  pictures4 ,the 8,holy ,family10
 nearby1 is in his first style1 and some
  of ,rubens' brushwork may still be    
recognized in the figure of the         
,christ-child4 ,rubens' skill in another
 field is upheld by two good  portraits 
of men4 ,there are several school       
pieces#a of merit1 and an  early copy of
 his 8,susannah40        #a ,a school   
piece is a picture done by a pupil1     
closely      following the style of his 
master4    ,illustration3 ,,the         
,,annunciation4 ,by ,roger van der      
,weyden    ,van ,dyck1 ,rubens' best    
pupil1 is even better represented than  
his  master4 ,we may trace his          
development in no less than eight       
portraits4  ,two in the ,altman         
,collection were done during his visit  
to ,genoa1  and betray some of the      
influence of ,italy4 ,but ,van ,dyck    

hardly ever  surpassed the full-length  
of ,james ,stuart1 ,duke of ,richmond   
and ,lennox4      ,italian ,masterpieces
    ,most of the masterpieces of the    
,italian ,school had been absorbed into 
,europe's national collections before   
the ,metropolitan ,museum entered  the  
field4 ,it is quite remarkable that the 
present showing is possible1  in view of
 the difficulties in the way4 ,most of  
the works of the  8primitives0#b are    
fixed on the walls of the palaces and   
churches  of ,italy1 but there is a     
scattering of them here4 ,in the case of
  ,pollajuolo's 7polla-yoo-o-lo7 8,st4  
,christopher10 the whole wall has  been 
transported4 ,it has great value for the
 study of fresco technic4  ,an          
8,epiphany10 simple in its appeal1      
attributed to the ,school of ,giotto    
7jot-to71 but possibly by ,giotto       
himself1 has great charm of color and   
composition4        #b ,the pioneers of 
a nation's art4 ,in ,italy1 ,giotto and 
,duccio      are the two great          

primitives4    ,one of the most         
important possessions of the ,museum is 
,raphael's  8,madonna of ,st4 ,anthony10
 the gift of ,mr4 ,j4 ,pierpont ,morgan4
 ,it was  painted before the artist had 
fully developed1 and lacks the spirit   
and brilliancy of his later productions4
 ,but study its composition4  ,note the 
dignity in the single figures of ,st4   
,peter and ,st4 ,paul4 ,how  exquisitely
 the adoring angels fill the lunette6#c 
,the picture was  intended for the high 
altar1 and1 in its original position1 it
 would  have been possible to see it    
only from a distance and from below1 and
  not close at hand as now4 ,the central
 group shows some of the promise  so    
richly fulfilled in the years that      
followed4        #c ,the upper1         
semi-circular portion4 ,the word refers 
to the      half-moon shape of the      
composition4    ,illustration3 ,,virgin 
,,and ,,child ,,enthroned ,,with        
,,saints4 ,by ,raphael    ,also called  
8,the ,madonna of ,st4 ,anthony0        

,illustration3 ,,madonna ,,and ,,child4 
,by ,andrea del ,verrocchio             
,illustration3 ,,girl ,,with ,,cherries4
 ,by ,ambrogio de ,predis    ,of the    
other ,florentines1 the pensive         
8,madonna0 by ,verrocchio               
7ver-roke-kee-o7 is very attractive1 and
 the ,fra ,angelico panel  and the      
circular composition by ,mainardi should
 not be overlooked4  ,neither of the    
subjects by ,botticelli                 
7bot-tee-chel-lee7 conveys  a fair      
conception of his artistic significance1
 although they are  well authenticated4 
,there is a highly finished portrait of 
,federigo  ,gonzaga 7fed-er-ee-go       
gon-tha-ga7 by ,francia 7fran-cha71 in  
perfect  preservation4 ,the 8,girl with 
,cherries10 now assigned to ,ambrogio   
de ,predis1 was for a long time thought 
to be by ,leonardo da ,vinci            
7vin-chee74    ,illustration3 ,,st4     
,,george4 ,by ,carlo ,crivelli    ,there
 are several large and important        
altarpieces4 ,one1 by ,correggio        

7kor-red-jo71 was painted early in his  
career4 ,it is rich in coloring  and is 
an important link in his artistic       
development4 ,on the opposite  wall     
there is an 8,entombment0 by ,moretto of
 ,brescia1 a leader in the  ,north      
,italian ,school4 ,he is noted for the  
gray tone that pervades many  of his    
canvases4 ,a 8,pieta0 7pee-ay-ta71 by   
,crivelli 7kree-vel-lee71  shows tragic 
power combined with great beauty of     
color and strength of  drawing4    ,the 
late ,venetian is the most              
satisfactorily represented of the       
,italian  ,schools4 ,there is an early  
8,madonna0 ascribed to ,giovanni        
,bellini  7jo-van-nee bel-lee-nee71 firm
 in drawing and harmonious in color     
scheme1 but failing to show the strength
 to which he attained later in  his     
career4 ,titian's 7tish-an7 portrait of 
,filippo ,archinto 7fil-ee-po           
ar-keen-to71 ,bishop of ,milan1 is fine 
as a study of character--we must  hope  
that some of the more decorative pieces 

by ,titian will some day be  secured4   
,like most of the portraits painted by  
,giorgione 7jor-jo-nee71  the one in the
 ,altman ,collection has suffered from  
restoration1 but  anything by this rare 
painter is priceless4 ,carpaccio's      
7kar-patch-o7  mystic 8,meditation on   
the ,passion0 is very important         
historically4    ,illustration3 ,,scene 
,,in ,,venice4 ,by ,antonio ,canaletto  
,there are no less than three canvases  
by ,tintoretto4 8,a ,doge in ,prayer    
,before the ,redeemer0 came from        
,ruskin's collection4 ,though only a    
sketch1 and therefore less finished than
 the pretentious 8,miracle  of the      
,loaves10 it is for that very reason the
 more convincingly  ,tintoretto's own   
handling4 ,paolo ,veronese's 7pah-o-lo  
vay-ro-naze-ee7  8,mars and ,venus0     
shows what a late ,venetian could do    
with a subject  that gave full play to a
 love of color and gorgeous textiles4   
,by  ,canaletto there is a 8,scene in   
,venice0 which is unsurpassed by        

anything  that represents him elsewhere4
 ,the 8,investiture of ,bishop ,harold0 
is  the finest of several paintings by  
,tiepolo 7tee-ay-po-lo7 in the  ,museum4
 ,there are excellent portraits by      
,torbido 7tor-bee-do7 and  ,montagna    
7mon-tan-yuh71 who do not belong        
strictly to the ,venetians4  ,they are  
much finer in workmanship than pictures 
sometimes attributed  to their more     
famous brethren4    ,both of the great  
men of the ,german ,school are well     
represented4  ,drer's training as an    
engraver is very apparent in his        
8,madonna and  ,child with ,st4         
,anne0--the sleeping ,christ-child is   
delightful4 ,of  the three ,holbeins1   
the early 8,portrait of a ,man0 is      
perhaps the  best4 ,according to the    
inscription1 it must have been painted  
when the  artist was twenty years old4  
,there are other fine portraits by      
,cranach  7kran-ack7 the elder and      
,beham4      ,early ,english ,art       
,the early ,english ,school is strong in

 numbers--it was greatly  strengthened  
by the ,fletcher bequest4 ,the large    
portrait group of ,the  ,honorable      
,henry ,fane with his ,guardians shows  
,sir ,joshua ,reynolds  attempting a    
group on an ambitious scale4 ,his       
half-lengths1 especially  that of       
,elizabeth ,reynolds1 are more          
pleasant--in that particular  one he    
pays tribute to the style of ,rembrandt4
 ,gainsborough1 ,sir  ,joshua's most    
successful rival1 shows his ability in  
the portrait of  8,miss ,sparrow0 and1  
in another field1 in the 8,landscape0 in
 the ,hearn  ,gallery4 ,he used to paint
 these landscapes as relaxation from the
  portrait pieces4 ,romney and ,opie    
7o-pee7 have attractively pictured      
,lady ,hamilton for us4 ,one of the best
 pictures that ever came from           
,lawrence's brush is his portrait of the
 ,reverend ,william ,pennicott4         
,illustration3 ,,marie ,,marguerite     
,,lambert ,,de ,,thorigny4 ,by          
,largillire    ,illustration3 ,,portrait

 ,,of ,a ,,lady4 ,by ,franois ,boucher  
,there are some good canvases by the    
landscape men4 ,constable has an        
unusual portrait1 as well as the        
gorgeous 8,glebe ,farm0 in the ,fletcher
  ,collection4 ,john ,crome1 in his     
8,hautbois ,common10 shows the influence
  of the principles of the ,dutch       
,school4 ,wilson has an unusually rich  
8,italian ,landscape40 ,turner1 the     
greatest of the ,english landscapists1  
is responsible for three pictures4 ,the 
early 8,saltash0 is rich and  luminous2 
the 8,grand ,canal1 ,venice10 is one of 
the best of his pictures  of the island 
city1 and the 8,whale ,ship0 is in his  
late style4 ,there  are some wonderful  
water-colors by him on loan4            
,illustration3 ,,arabs ,,crossing ,a    
,,ford4 ,by ,eugne ,fromentin    ,the   
,french ,school of the seventeenth and  
eighteenth centuries is  represented by 
pictures few in number1 but excellent in
 quality4  ,boucher 7boo-shay71         
,largillire 7lar-geel-yare71 ,nattier   

7nat-ee-ay71 ,drouais 7droo-ay7--all    
these men show amazing strength  on the 
decorative side1 and1 always1 exquisite 
taste4 ,chardin  7shar-dahn7 has a      
beautiful low-toned still-life1         
8,preparations for  a ,breakfast40      
,david's portrait in the ,fletcher      
,gallery is a marvel of  directness4 ,in
 the ,morgan ,wing there are eight      
decorative landscapes by  ,hubert       
,robert well worth looking up in this   
connection4      ,modern ,french        
,artists    ,some of the modern ,french 
artists were appreciated by ,americans  
before  their genius was recognized at  
home4 ,certainly the ,modern ,french    
,section is one of the strongest in the 
,museum4 ,romanticism1 realism and      
impressionism are all to be seen in the 
work of their chief exponents4  ,an     
afternoon might profitably be spent with
 the men of ,barbizon  7bar-bee-zong74  
,corot's 7kor-ro7 poetic outlook upon   
nature is plain  in each of twelve      
landscapes4 ,the 8,lane ,through the    

,trees10 with a  sense of cool shadow   
after the heat of a dusty road1 is      
perhaps the  best of them4              
,illustration3 ,,english ,,landscape4   
,by ,thomas ,gainsborough               
,illustration3 ,,landscape ,,with       
,,figures4 ,by ,george ,morland         
,rousseau 7roos-so7 speaks a more rugged
 and direct language in  the fifteen    
subjects by him4 ,the sober 8,gorges    
d',apremont 7gorge  da-pre-mong72       
,evening10 with a still luminous sky    
above the hills1 is  magnificent4       
,millet 7mee-yay7 is represented by the 
famous 8,sower10  with its rhythm and   
swing1 an almost equally fine           
8,water-,carrier10  the impressive      
8,autumn0 in the ,fletcher ,collection1 
and half a dozen  others4 ,dupr         
7dyu-pray7 and ,diaz 7dee-ath7 have good
 pictures1 and  when has ,troyon ever   
surpassed his superb 8,holland ,cattle08
 ,daubigny  7daw-been-yee71 though he   
comes a bit later1 is usually associated
  with these men4 ,there are eight or   

nine of the subjects he used to find  in
 punting about among the streams and    
back-waters of the ,seine 7sane7  and   
,oise 7wahz7--how intimate they seem6   
,illustration3 ,,lady ,,williams4 ,by   
,ralph ,earle    ,illustration3 ,,boy   
,,with ,a ,,sword4 ,by ,edouard ,manet  
,illustration3 ,,landscape4 ,by ,charles
 ,franois ,daubigny    ,the ,museum is  
fortunate in owning a number of pictures
 that are  recognized as the            
masterpieces of their respective        
artists4  ,bastien-,lepage's 7bas-tee-en
 lah-pazsh7 8,joan of ,arc0 is one of   
these4 ,realism8--yes1 but so combined  
with imagination that the  result is    
gripping4 ,rosa ,bonheur's 8,horse      
,fair0 is one of the  best-known        
pictures in the ,museum4 ,many are      
familiar with it in black  and white    
reproduction1 in which it shows to good 
advantage4 ,the  original painting is   
somewhat disappointing in color4        
,meissonier's  7may-sone-yay7           
8,friedland1 #ahjg0 is an example of his

 careful  brushwork1 but is less        
successful than some of his smaller     
panels that  are shown in the ,museum4  
,regnault's 7rane-yoe7 8,salome10 a     
daring  harmony in yellow1 shows the    
dancer awaiting her reward from ,herod4 
8,madame ,charpentier 7shar-pen-tee-ay7 
and her ,children10 by ,renoir          
7ren-wahr71 is one of the most charming 
groups to be found anywhere4  ,renoir   
employed the methods of the             
impressionists1 but he never  allowed   
his subject to become secondary to the  
medium--a thing his                     
brother-impressionists sometimes seemed 
to do4 ,there are pictures by  the other
 exponents of these principles to speak 
for themselves1 and  some of them speak 
very well4 ,manet 7mah-nay7 in the 8,boy
 with a ,sword0  is following ,velasquez
 to good advantage4 ,a portrait by      
,fantin-,latour  7fahn-tang-la-toor7    
depicts the wonderfully sensitive face  
of a lady  in black4 ,a turquoise brooch
 gives a piquant touch of color that is 

repeated in the other jewels she wears4 
,there are many other pictures  that one
 could ill afford to pass by--,couture's
 8,day ,dreams10 for  example1 and      
8,arabs ,crossing a ,ford0 by ,fromentin
 7fro-mahn-tang71 or  the pictures by   
,delacroix 7del-lah-krwah71 ,courbet    
7koor-bay71 ,jacque  7zshock71 and      
,dagnan-,bouveret                       
7dahn-yahn-boo-ver-ray71 to mention     
only the more important4 ,last1 but far 
from being least1 is the group  by      
,puvis de ,chavannes 7poo-vee de        
sha-van7 to show the power of that      
great mural painter4    ,illustration3  
,,forenoon1 ,,adirondacks4 ,by          
,alexander ,h4 ,wyant      ,american    
,artists    ,naturally1 ,american       
artists are well represented in the     
,metropolitan  ,museum4 ,nine pictures  
stand sponsor for ,gilbert ,stuart's    
skill1 and  several are surprisingly    
fine4 ,such work as ,john ,singleton    
,copley's  8,mrs4 ,bowers0 and ,stuart's
 8,mrs4 ,anthony0 do not suffer from    

comparison  with the productions of the 
,english ,school of their time4 ,indeed1
  ,ralph ,earle's 8,lady ,williams10    
sometime previous to its purchase in    
,london1 masqued as a ,gainsborough6    
,its simplicity and slightly awkward    
directness are captivating4 ,do not fail
 to observe1 however1 that  the table   
accessories are exceedingly well        
painted4 ,one of the most  interesting  
of these early pictures is a group of   
pupils in the studio  of ,benjamin      
,west4 ,as president of the ,royal      
,academy1 his aid was sought  by almost 
every ,american with any artistic       
ability who could obtain  passage money 
to ,london4 ,matthew ,pratt1 one of     
those whom ,west helped1  here shows him
 criticizing the sketch of one of a     
group4 ,prominent  among the men of the 
next generation is ,morse1 the inventor 
of the  telegraph1 but also a painter of
 no mean order1 and the author of good  
portraits of ,henry ,clay and ,de ,witt 
,clinton4 ,sully1 another man of        

exceptional taste for his time1 has ten 
pictures1 including the sketch  for his 
portrait of ,queen ,victoria4           
,illustration3 ,,marble ,,quarry ,,at   
,,carrara4 ,by ,john ,s4 ,sargent       
,nowhere else can the 8,hudson ,river   
,school0#d be studied so well4 ,to  our 
eyes these beginnings seem a bit hard   
and crude1 but such canvases  as ,f4 ,e4
 ,church's 8,heart of the ,andes0 and   
8,parthenon0 are really  impressive4    
,but most of these men interest us today
 chiefly as the  forbears of a later    
group4 ,inness1 ,wyant1 ,homer ,martin  
and ,blakelock  have only a point of    
view in common1 and yet they form a     
transition  group that leads out of the 
8,hudson ,river ,school0 to the         
landscape  men of the present day4 ,in  
no other gallery is the work of these   
four  artists so well represented4 ,in  
some of the canvases the inspiration  of
 the ,barbizon men is very apparent4    
,inness succeeds best1 perhaps1  in his 
oft-reproduced 8,autumn ,oaks0 or his   

8,delaware ,valley40 ,wyant's  work is  
very even--8,an ,old ,clearing0 is the  
best of his ten pictures4  ,blakelock's 
8,pipe ,dance0 is fine in a very        
different way4 ,homer ,martin1  perhaps 
the most interesting figure of them all1
 reached his highest  level in the      
8,view on the ,seine10 or as his wife   
named it1 8,the ,harp of  the ,winds40  
,that picture may fairly claim to be the
 best-known and most  loved landscape by
 any ,american artist4 ,his sight was   
almost gone when  the last touches were 
added4 ,no less impressive1 to some1 is 
his 8,sand  ,dunes1 ,lake ,ontario40    
,all the desertedness and barrenness of 
the dunes  seem to have been caught and 
expressed on his canvas4        #d ,the 
,hudson ,river ,school of ,art is       
considered at length in      ,monograph 
,six1 ,mentor ,no4 #acf1 8,the ,story of
 the ,hudson40    ,sargent1 ,whistler1  
,la ,farge1 ,chase--all are here1 and in
 many phases4  ,sargent's portraits are 
fine1 but do not miss his water-colors1 

or  his 8,marble ,quarry at ,carrara40  
,winslow ,homer was one of the first    
,americans to realize the possibilities 
of the sea as a subject1  and there are 
eight paintings by him1 as well as a    
dozen forceful  water-colors4 ,carlsen1 
,dougherty 7dock-er-tee7 and ,waugh     
7wah7 are  sea-lovers too4 ,and as for  
the figure-painters1 ,dannat's 7dan-nah7
  8,quartette10 ,abbey's 8,lear0 and    
,mary ,cassatt's 8,mother and ,child0   
should not be omitted4 ,among the       
landscapists come ,twachtman and ,tryon1
  ,groll with his ,arizona mesa1 ,lie   
with 8,culebra ,cut0 for his subject1   
and ,ben ,foster with a fine 8,late     
,summer ,moonrise40 ,here is a rich     
assemblage of ,american art4            
,illustration3 ,,sand ,,dunes1 ,,lake   
,,ontario4 ,by ,homer ,martin           
,,supplementary ,,reading        ,,the  
,,art ,,of ,,the ,,metropolitan ,,museum
 ,,of ,,new ,,york ,by ,david ,c4       
,preyer        ,,what ,,pictures ,,to   
,,see ,,in ,,america              ,by   

,lorinda ,m4 ,bryant        ,a ,,history
 ,,of ,,the ,,metropolitan ,,museum ,,of
 ,,art   ,by ,winifred ,e4 ,howe        
,issued by the ,museum4                 
,,catalogue4      ,issued by the        
,museum4     ,information concerning the
 above books may be had on application  
to  the ,editor of ,the ,mentor4        
,,the ,,open ,,letter                   
,illustration3 ,,the ,,metropolitan     
,,museum ,,of ,,art1 ,,new ,,york ,,city
    ,the story of the ,metropolitan     
,museum of ,art begins with an address  
by  ,john ,jay before a company of      
,americans at a ,fourth of ,july dinner 
in  ,paris in #ahff4 ,in the course of  
his address ,mr4 ,jay stated that 8it   
was time for the ,american people to lay
 the foundation of a national           
institution and gallery of art40 ,this  
suggestion commended itself  to a number
 of notable ,american gentlemen who were
 present1 and who  formed themselves    
into a committee for inaugurating the   
movement4 ,this  committee subsequently 

addressed an appeal to the ,union       
,league ,club of  ,new ,york ,city1     
urging the importance of founding a     
permanent national  gallery of art and  
museum of historical relics for the     
benefit of  the people at large1 and    
suggesting that the ,union ,league ,club
 might  properly institute the means for
 promoting this great object4    ,mr4   
,jay1 on returning home from ,paris1 was
 elected president of the  ,union       
,league ,club1 and the letter from the  
committee came up for his  own official 
notice4 ,the result was a meeting at the
 ,union ,league ,club  on ,november #bc1
 #ahfi1 to consider the founding of a   
museum1 and a  committee of fifty1 made 
up of some of the most distinguished men
 of  the day1 was appointed to carry out
 the project4    ,it is interesting to  
read today that the sum of money that   
the founders  placed before them as the 
goal of their ambition with which to    
establish this great art institution was
 only #bej1jjj--;a sum #ajj1jjj  less   

than the present administration's       
expenses for one year4 ,and yet  this   
distinguished committee1 after more than
 a year's effort1 raised  less than half
 of the desired sum--only #ajf1jjj4     
,such1 financially1  was the modest     
beginning of the great ,metropolitan    
,museum which now1  besides its         
extensive buildings and its priceless   
collections1 has an  endowment for a    
purchase fund of over ten million       
dollars4    ,the idea of locating the   
art museum in ,central ,park originated 
with  ,andrew ,h4 ,green1 known as the  
father of that great park4 ,from #ahgj  
until #ahgi the ,museum was housed1     
first on ,fifth ,avenue1 and then  on   
,fourteenth ,street4 ,the original      
building1 in ,central ,park1 was        
completed in #ahhj1 and was opened by   
,president ,rutherford ,b4 ,hayes4      
,additions were erected in #ahhh1 #ahid 
and #aijb4 ,since then more             
contributions have been made to the     
complete plan which1 when realized1     

will comprise a group of buildings that 
will cover an area of #ah  acres1 and   
will cost about #bj1jjj1jjj4 ,the       
architects were ,calvert  ,vaux1 then   
,theodore ,weston1 ,richard ,m4 ,hunt   
and ,mc,kim1 ,mead  ,white4  ,the       
,museum had first to rely largely upon  
voluntary service4 ,this ended  in #ahgi
 with the election of a salaried        
director1 ,general di ,cesnola4  ,at his
 death1 in #aijd1 he left a valuable    
memorial in the collection  of          
antiquities that he gathered together   
while ,united ,states consul  in        
,cyprus1 and which includes over #cj1jjj
 specimens4 ,a new era in the  affairs  
of the ,museum began with the election  
of ,mr4 ,j4 ,pierpont ,morgan  as       
president4 ,under ,mr4 ,morgan's        
presidency the ,metropolitan became  one
 of the richest museums in the world1   
and on his death1 in #aiad1 it  received
 for exhibition his great collection of 
art objects1 valued at  #ej1jjj1jjj4 ,of
 this1 the greatest private collection  

in the world1  a large part has now     
become the property of the ,museum      
through the  princely gift of ,mr4      
,morgan's son1 the present ,j4 ,pierpont
 ,morgan1 and  is being installed by    
itself in a wing called the ,pierpont   
,morgan ,wing4  ,the ,museum has been   
the recipient of many large endowments1 
and many  fine private collections4     
,notable among the benefactors may be   
named  three of ,new ,york's most       
distinguished merchants1 ,a4 ,t4        
,stewart1 ,james  ,a4 ,hearn and        
,benjamin ,altman4    ,during its       
existence many of the most prominent    
citizens of ,new ,york  ,city have been 
connected in some active capacity with  
the ,museum4 ,the  past presidents of   
the ,institution were ,john ,taylor     
,johnston1 ,henry  ,g4 ,marquand1       
,frederick ,w4 ,rhinelander and ,j4     
,pierpont ,morgan4 ,mr4  ,robert ,w4 de 
,forest1 for many years secretary of the
 ,museum1 is now  its president4 ,among 
the vice-presidents were ,william       

,cullen ,bryant1  ,andrew ,h4 ,green1   
,general ,john ,a4 ,dix1 ,a4 ,t4        
,stewart1 ,john ,s4 ,kennedy1  ,d4 ,o4  
,mills1 ,joseph ,h4 ,choate1 and others4
 ,the affairs of the ,museum  were      
directed during the first years by      
,general di ,cesnola1 then by ,sir      
,casper ,purdon ,clarke1 and now by ,mr4
 ,edward ,robinson4    ,under the       
direction of the present secretary1 ,mr4
 ,henry ,w4 ,kent1 the  history of the  
,metropolitan ,museum has been written  
by ,winifred ,e4  ,howe1 and published  
in a luxurious volume of #cfj pages4    
,this beautiful  book affords a most    
interesting and instructive lesson in   
what can be  accomplished in less than  
fifty years in the development of a     
great art  institution4                 
,illustration3 ,w4 ,d4 ,moffat          
,,editor          ,a ,letter ,from      
,japan      ,i have been interested in  
,the ,mentor ever since a warm morning  
in  ,june four years ago when1 as a     
delegate to the ,general ,federation of 

,women's ,clubs held that year in       
,chicago1 ,i found in my seat a sample  
copy4 8,american ,sculptors0 was the    
title of the number4 ,i was delighted   
with it4 ,i asked if it would be all    
right to take some extra copies1  and ,i
 was told 8yes40 ,so ,i loaded myself   
down with them1 thinking of  the many   
young men in ,tokyo with whom we were in
 touch1 who would be  so delighted to   
have them4 ,this was exactly the case4  
,every ,mentor ,i  brought was used in  
the best way possible1 and many of the  
pictures  were given out singly1 so that
 more could have them4    ,fortunately  
my mother has been sending ,the ,mentor 
to me4 ,she began  to take it through   
seeing my copy1 and it is one of the    
delightful  visitors to our home4    ,i 
have been much interested in the letters
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missionary4 ,first3 to keep  one from   
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