MATTERS OF ART.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 353, 12 February 1903, Page 6

MATTERS OF ART.

Stanford \Vhit« is one of the largest eellectoTe of antique statuary ir America. Not only it hi« house ir Qrammarcy park, New York, a v»r-. itable museum of Greek and Romat art, but the lawn is now iiile«3 to overflowing with other examples. The malr staircase in William C Whitney'* New York residence. Fiftt avenue and Sixty-eighth street, is ol white marble and is carved after t stairease in the Doge's palace in Venice. Mr. Whitney brought the desigß to this country and the work took iiJ months for con., ....ion. Anders Zorn, the famous Swedial artist, "threatened," as be put it. u Bori-.fi day present ona of hie picture* to the St. Louis Museum of Fine Art* That wa» when hj« first visited th« city several years afro. The oth«r day the picture arrived. It is a "Portrait of a Woman." and is valued at o-«» 18.000. During excavation* near Lampsaki, on the Dardanelles, a beautiful rase was found. It is made of burnt clay, encrusted on the exterior with gold. It has three golden handles and splendid reliefs representing hunting scenes. The date of the vase, which contained human ashes, bones and p«arls, is estimated at about B. C. 400. A has relief by Clodion, representing fawns, nymphs and cupids at play, has been discovered in a Paris nunnery. The relief waa carved for Print—as Louise of Conde, in the eighteenth century, and when she became a nun the figures were covered with plaster. A Prussian cannon ball at the time ol the siege of Paris chipped off the plaster, showing the sculpture beneath. A French* antiquarian society intends tc present it to the I arnavalet museum, though the price asked tor St la $40,008.