MATTERS OF ART.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3617, 27 February 1906, Page 4

MATTERS OF ART.

Stanford White is one of the largest collectors of antique statuary in America. Not only is his house in Grammarcy park, Now 'iork, a veritable museum of Greek and Koman art, but the lawn is now tilled to overflowing with other examples* The main (jjaimtate in William (• Whitney’s New York residence, Fifth ■ avenue aiid Sixty-eighth street, s.s si white marble and is carved alter a , staircase in the Doge’s palace in N cuI ice. Mr* Whitney brought the design to this country and the work took six months for ce. ...on. Anders Zorn, the famous Swedish artist, “threatened,” as he put it, to i some day present one of his pictures ! to the St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts, j That was when ho first visited the j city several years ago, The other cay the pieuirt- ,*ri'ived. It u j. t;i i.uit j of a Woman,” and is valued at over SG-,COOi 1 During excavations near Lampsaki, on ihe Dardanelles, a > «•.:=.t./;i: v..re was found. It is made oi m.rnt c:ay, encrusted on the exterior v.,.a -■ It has three golden handl.-s and rati hi iVliefs* repreacr,ting I scenes, 'the date of tin- ■ xV,;. coi.ialned human ashes, l-t-nes am; pearls,' is esiitimtefl at about I’.. ('. Fm. A has relief by Clcdiosb r. pi own .(in; lav.ns, rymphs and cupids at pihy. has been discovered in a Pams m line ry. The relief was cancd lor i n.. ce>r. Louise of Coade, in tin eight;-; u:eeitl ary, and when she became a am tin. liyui cs were covered v.mb pim-u-i Pio-.sian cannon ball at liw time ». liu 'dege of Paris chipped elf .he plus wing tile sclilpiure b. a.;. iln i French antiquarian society intends L present it to the Carnavalet museum though the price asked for it is s4y,V‘ooe