American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . st tradition, untilit was finished, but kept a number about him in various stages of progress. His Landscape andCattle, as seen in the sketch, is a quiet, dignified, and truthful picture in all its parts. It wouldseem, however, that Crossing the Ford would be a more correct title, as that is what the cattleare about to do, while the landscape is quite subordinate. The two Bonheurs, Rosa and her brother Auguste, — the latter the more accomplished artistof the two, — are represented by very good pictures. To the same class
American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . st tradition, untilit was finished, but kept a number about him in various stages of progress. His Landscape andCattle, as seen in the sketch, is a quiet, dignified, and truthful picture in all its parts. It wouldseem, however, that Crossing the Ford would be a more correct title, as that is what the cattleare about to do, while the landscape is quite subordinate. The two Bonheurs, Rosa and her brother Auguste, — the latter the more accomplished artistof the two, — are represented by very good pictures. To the same class belongs The Last Hour,by August Schcnck, a grand, life-like picture of sheep ready for the shearer. Voltz has a largeoblong Approach of a Storm, with a herd of cattle contemplating the prospect. Van MarckesLandscape and Cattle has been reproduced in etching by Mr. Peter Moran, of Philadelphia. Inthis etching the cattle are very well given, but the landscape, a most difficult one to translateby the needle, has not been quite so happily rendered. Charles Henry ;ETCHING STEPHEN 1- a Painting by Gerome, m the Collection of HentyC. Gibson, Esq., Philadelphia. Mr. C. H. Hart, the celebrated art writer, describes this-painting by one of the greatestpainters of the age as follows :^- *\ A marchantambulant plenteously bedecked with old fineJinen treads the streetsof Cairo, loudly advertising his. goods ; carrying in one hand a long Arab in the other, an oldMoorish helmet. THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES. THE COLLECTION OF MR. HENRY C. GIBSON, PHILADELPHIA. Chapter Tenth. THE most meteoric genius that flashed upon the art-world of the present century, onlyto disappear too soon, was unquestionably Mariano Fortuny, who was born in Reus,province of Tarragona, Spain, June nth, 1838, and died in Rome, November 21st,1874. Fortuny could use oil and water-colors, pen and needle, with equal facility, and assoon as his works became
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