MATTERS OF ART.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3586, 17 October 1905, Page 4

MATTERS OF ART.

Stanford White is one of the largest Collector* of antique statuary in America. Not only is his house in Grammarcy park, New York, a verJli'hle museum of Greek and Homan .'art. tral !h<- lawn is now filled to overflowing with other e samples. The mo in,, staircase in William C. Whitney’s New York residence, Fifth avenue and Sixty-eighth street, is of White mar.'-?- ami is carved after a suit-ease m -he Doge’s palace in Venice. Mr. Whitney brought the design to this country p v '<’ 'he work took six months for co. .*on. Anders Zorn, the famous Swedish artist, ’Threatened,” as he put it, to S'ooresent one of his pictures , uis Museum of Fine Arts, .hen he first visited the t. v . ...i years ago. The other day the p.eture arrived. It is a “Portrait of a Woman,” and is valued at over "cavations near Lampoaki, on i■ • ■:i« i4-n, a beautiful vase v. ~..ide of burnt clay, encrusted on the exterior with gold. It haa thm >/-61dtn handles and splendid representing hunting scents. , date of the vase, which contained unman ashes, ~-bpaes and pearls.: i. imated .at about B. C. 400. A bn- ■ ■ by. !•..ilion, representing fawns, ... t ms imu cupids at play, has nten discovered in a Paris nunnery. i h relief was carved for Princess 1.-; u.. •>! L'oude, in the eighteenth ceiitM-y, and when she became a nun tin- ."yin . were covered with plaster. A J’i-i.-i. :aiinon ball at the time of 1 the ■ ./ hipped off the plaster, . !.• i.v thpiarpbeneath.' A Fi iin n . -jaui .au society intends to present a lo the Carnavalet museum, the price askefi iox It iss4o,ooo.