_ Borpint, COOMANS, eek, | hd ~ ; DETAILLE, Detosse, _ DECONINCK, _ Descorre, 7 —“DUPRAY, x oe WECAMP, ie ‘ Now on Free Exhibition, day and evening at {E LEAVITT ART ROOMS, 817 BROADWAY. AT CLINTON HALL, ASTOR PLACE. rut a OF THE IMPORTATION OF COMPRISING EcusQuiza, FROMENTIN, GIDE, FRERE, GUILLAUMET, GARNIER, GASSER, FLETZ: JAQUET, JC ROMBERG, LAMBINET, | LESREL, LANDELLE, LEMAN, LEMAIRE, MADRAZO, MICHETTI, FLO i bBECTION | AND OTHERS. POnr SOLD BY AUCTION ON een = - : E Messrs LEAVITT, AUCTIONEERS, 4 i Ce ee shy, IL PAINTINGS, Mr. ApotF Koun,166 Firtu AVE., ‘CHOICE EXAMPLES BY EMINENT ARTISTS ‘OP THE FRENCH, GERMAN AND SPANISH SCHOOLS. MOREAU, PASCUTTI, ROUGERON, SCHNEIDER, SCHLESINGER, SCHREYER, SELL, SPRINGER, TOULMOUCHE, SEITZ, SCHENK, SIEGERT, TORTEZ, VELY, VorrTg: ZIEM. ZAMACOIS. ¢ : The present Collection of Paintings, in its enfrety, is compose } of works imported during the present season by Afr. Adolf Kohn’ of No. 166 Fifth Avenue, Many of them have been imported only within : a few days, and not a single one was ever before exhibited outsi |e of his Ar/ Rooms. é . Mr. Kohn, though well known in this city as an Ar/ Connoisse: and Picture Collector, has only recently established himself as fin : Art Dealer. Not being able, in the short space of a few months, ‘o give his new establishment sufficient advertisement to reach 2. classes of the picture-buying public, he finds himself near the close of the Spring Season with a valuable stock of paintings on hanc. and with engagements abroad for new works which he intends t» import for the fall tradee Under these circumstance: ke: Mr. Kohn has concluded to selt by auction his : entire Collection, comprising the choicest ane , , most important works from his Importations, — | a mostly painted to his special order. ‘a Mes ai i > ‘< s The sale will take place | . | Tuesday Evening, April 17, at 8 o'clock. — Tue Megsrs, LEAVITT, Auctions “THE PRIVATE COLLECTION OF CABINET PAINT- | INGS BELONGING TO Mr. ADOLF KOHN, No, 1 East 14TH STREET. Lhe Messrs. LLAVITT beg to announce that they will selt by Public Auction the entire collection of Jine Cabinet Paint- ings belonging to Mr. ADOLF KOHN, on Thursday even- ing, the (79th, at the Clinton Halt Sale Rooms. Until this date they are on free exhibition, day and evening, at the Art Gallery, 8/7 Broadway. THE KOHN. COLLECTION. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. New York Herald, Nov. 13th. / a admirable collection of cabinet pictures, the property of Mr. Adolf Kohn, is cn exhibition at the Leavitt Art Gallery,in Broadway. Itis composed of some six y canvases from the easels of well known Kuropeanartists. Somefew works are by Americans; but for the most part the collection is made up of small genre - subjects, in which our native school of art has not as yet made any remarkable _ progress. Among the more important works are ‘‘ A Persian Woman and Child,” ; painted by Diaz in his younger days. . This artistis best known by his landscapes ; but this ‘‘ Persian Woman and Child”’ makes us regret that he was forced to abandon figure subjects by the failure of his sight. Both figures are painted with great strength and decision. ‘The color treatment is at once rich and tender and full of harmony. An ad- mirable little picture by the lamented Escosura, full of humor, represents a mus- + keteer examining his helmet, which has been hit in the side by a bullet. As the _ soldier looks at the dent he is evidently congratulating himself that the ball _ did not happen to strike a few inches lower, in which case his head would have s : 4 | been perforated. The little work is exquisitely drawn, and is very rich in color. ? : painter, is represer*ed by a small landscape full of delicacy, brightness and grace. itis asimple bit of wood and water with a glimpse of sky, the whole bathed in t 3 the silvery, vaporous atmosphere of morning, aud exhaling a dreamy, poetic feeling. Daubigny, on the other hand, is the painter of the hard facts pf nature. Everything in his landscape is positive and pronounced. His trees are solid, and the green of the foliage is so intense that they seem to receive no sunshine. This picture is simple, forcible and unpretending. It is a bit taken from the severer _ gide of nature and given without reference to whether it pleases or not. A re- * x. é y It is finished with wonderful! dexterity. Corot, the great French landscape : markable little picture by Vollon deserves attention. It is ‘‘A Distant View of Paris.” it is scarcely a foot square, and yet gives us an admirable view of the _ broad river and the mass of jumbled houses which make up the great city. The local color is admirably maintained and combined with a daylignt effect of un- . usual force. It has also the qualities of minute finish, with great breadth of treatment. Seldom have we seen immense space so successfully expressed in a _ work of such small dimensions. Vibert’s ‘‘ Pompejian Woman” will introduce the American public to a class of worx we do not often see from this artist’s easel. _ Itrepresents asemi-nude woman fishing on the banks of a river. ‘The composition — - isremarkable for its purity and grace. The figure of the woman is exquisitely — drawn, the modelling of the form round and firm, while the color treatment leaves . nothing to be desired except that the artist should do more of this class of work. As we are engaged venting regrets, we cannot help expressing our surprise” tha an artist capaple of painting “ the Young Lady,’’ which we owe to M. Linder, of _ ' Paris, does not devote his talents to something better in the way of subject. This work is painted with remarkable torce and solidity. The brushing is free and bold, with a finish that shames the careful minuteness of other men. Th _ fiesh tones are very deep and transparent, while the embroidered garment is - maarvel of dexterous execution. ; Jt is at once brilliant in color, simple and exquisitely fanciful in design. Th 9 are other works by celebrated artists, like Toulmouche, Achenbach, De Cock, Fornari, Mei, Sell, Girard, Madrazo, Kaemmerer, Moreau, Simonetti, Flamm, Bellows, Col, Aubert, and others we have not space to mention. The works are almost exclusively cabinet size, and display an evenness in quality that reflects credit on the taste of their collector. We understand that the sale takes place in consequence of the owner’s departure for iurope. New York World, November 13th. A very fine collection of paintings, the property of Mr. Adolf Kohn, was ex- hibited last evening at the Leavitt Art Gallery, 817 Broadway, preparatory to their sale at auction on Thursday next. The gallery included about sixty works of art, nearly all of cabinet size, from the easels of some of the best known French, English, German, and Spanish masters. There are also scattered among these canvases several works by American artists of reputation. The most con- spicuously meritorious painting is Diaz’s ‘‘ Persian Lady and Child,” No. 49, Which is remarkable for its soft, rich tone and careful handling. It is unques- tionably a very valuable specimen of this well-known artist’s school, and attract- ed a great deal of attention last evening. Aubert has an idyl of much imagina- tive beauty, and ‘lissot and Moreau are well represented by rustic scenes. Kzem- merer’s ‘‘ innocence,”’ 46, is noticeably fine in color and poor in drawing. A small Corot (landscape) is one of the most characteristic pictures in the drawing. Bold, vague, and audacious, it is unmistakably genuine, no one having the skill or the bravery to successfully imitate this master. De Haas, Church, and Ken- sett represent the American contributions, and Bellows the English. The Ken- sett is a charming spring composition, rather crude and careless, but neverthe- less breathing a vernal atmosphere of great beauty. Baron Leys, Escosura, Calame, Fiamm, Rossi, Linder, Dupre, De Cock, Montfallet, and Achenbach are also very creditably represented by small pictures, all of which are of merit. Lhe collection is geuerally a very interesting one, comprising a very large num- ber of subjects and taking in nearly all the modern schools. A large assemblage of critics and buyers was present during the eyening, and expressed a great deal of satisfaction at the exhivition. New York Evening Express, November 13th. One of the finest collection of paintings that have been put on exhibition for some time is that of Adolf Kohn, now to be seen at the Leavitt Art Rooms, 817 Broadway, and to be disposed of on ‘uesday next. Among the pictures, the majority of which are of cabinet size, are works from the easels of Corot, Dau- bigay, Viaz, Toulmouche, Calame, Lissot, Baron Leys, and other foreign painters, waile American art is represented by Church, Kensett, Bellows, DeHaas, and W. IT. Richards. Mr. Kohn has evidently selected his pictures with refinement and knowledge, and the result is a splendid collection. Brooklyn Eagle, November 13th. A collection of modern pictures of cabinet-size, and representing many of the greatest names of artists of tue Wrench and German scnools of art, was opened tor exibition at the Leavitt Art Rooms, No. 817 Broadway, New York, last even- ing. ‘Lhese paintings are usually known as cabinet gems, and that they are worthy to be so designated will be admitted by all who may be so fortunate as to have an opportuuity to study their admirable qualities. The gallery was tormed by Mr. Adolf Kohn, of No, 1 Hast Kourteenta Street, New York, tor his own gratification during the past ten years, and is now to be sold, owing to his early departure jor mHurope, wuere he contemplates sojourning for severai years. ‘he coliection is interesting in every department of art, and embraces works in landscape, tigures, stiil-lite, and marine views. in water-colors there are two works of brilliant character by Rossi and Simo- netti, who are known as the greatest colorists of the Roman school of art. but it is in Oil-paintings that the yallery is peculiarly rich and atiractive. ‘Lnere is a little picture by Montiallet, or a cavalier testing his sword as it preparing fora duel. i'ne figure is cleverly drawn and painted with exquisite feeling ; and a warm, rich tone or color pervades the subject, the delicacy and refineinent of which we have rarely seen excelled upon canyas, Krom the easel of Appian there is a landscape composition of girls bathing. ‘I'his is a remarkable picture ; the figures are charmingly introducea, and the earnest artistic feeling sown in the iand- 3 scape and its trees and shrubbery, in connection with the foreground group, is worthy of the highest praise. David Col, the great German painter, is repre- sented by a humorous subject, very expressive in its story, entitled ‘‘ Reading the News from the Seat of War.”’ It is painted with marvelous care. Adrien Moreau has a brilliant landscape scene, in which four young ladies appear as ramblers and gathering field flowers. This is a delightfully treated picture—the figures are charming, and the sunlight effect, with which the can- vas fairly glows, is exquisitely rendered. Another superb picture, entitled ** After a Storm,’’ by Andreas Achenbach, is one of the most powerful works by that artist that we have recently seen. There are some quaint old mills, with great water-wheels in the foreground, the painting of which is rendered with more than ordinary force, and this, in connection with the breaking storm and the suggestive landscape surroundings, is as realistic in its story as a study from nature. There are, also, a fresh and vigorous landscape, by Victor Dupre ; a river bank scene, noticeable for its fine atmospheric effect and silvery-toned sky, by Karl Daubigny ; and other landscapes by the great artists, Corot, Flamm, and Hildebrand. De Haas is represented by a harbor view of extraordinary power, giving a view of the ‘‘ Port of Dover.”’ This picture was originally painted for Mr. Bel- mont, of New York, and is a fine representative work. Another work, and a veritable cabinet gem, is “‘ A Passing Storm,’’ by Frederic E. Church. It is a mere effect from nature, but so vividly rendered that it will command universal admiration. Edward Allen Schmidt, the eminent Dusseldorf artist, has two at- tractive pictures in the collection, ‘‘A Smoker,’ painted with great breadth, and yet showing marvelous brilliancy of color and detail; and ‘‘'The Head ofa Monk,” which is also treated with vigor, and is really an artistic work. There are also two cabinet pictures by Escosura, one of two figures, a beautiful sub- ject, and charmingly painted ; and a scene in a court-yard of a fort or castle under bombardment. A handsome young man-at-arms in the foreground has been hit by a bullet on the helmet, and appears astonished at the shock. His action, as may be inferred, is expressive, and his figure, as well as the various de- tails of the work, shows superb execution. Toulmouche, who is also a leading artist of the French school, is represented by the charmingly drawn figure of a young lady with a bouquet. The subject is richly colored and highly finished. Representing the name of J. G. Vibert, there is a fine example of art, giving the figure of a half-nude woman, which is remarkable for the delicate purity of its flesh-tints and its rich tones of color generally. Diaz also makes a brilliant display of his power as a colorist in his figures of ‘‘A Persian Woman and Child ;”’ and Linder, of Paris, has a work of rare beauty, giving a figure of a young lady, in which the details of costume are carefully painted, and exemplify the most delightful harmony of color through- out. There are other enjoyable pictures by Hiddemann, Kaemmerer, Firmin Girard, Aubert, Xavier DeCock, Madrazo, Lambron, Christian Sell, of Dussel- dorf, the celebrated painter of soldiers and battle scenes ; Brillouin, Jos. Tissot, and others of equal renown. The collection will remain on free exhibition, day and evening, until Thurs- day next, the 19th instant, when it is to be sold at auction, beginning at 7:30 P. M., without any reservation whatever. New Vork Tribune. There is a collection of good cabinet pictures now on exhibition in the pleas- ant and airy gallery of Leavitt & Co. on Broadway, where everything always looks its best. They consist in great part of the private gallery of Mr. Adolf Kohn, and several others of the same kind are added. The collection will well repay an hour’s loitering on the way down town. The specimens are all respect- able, and some of them are by famous hands. There is a Corot, a cool, light green, smeary sketch, which will doubtless be greatly appreciated at the sale; two good landscapes by Daubigny, and a charming little piece by Dupré. Mad- razo has a slight but excellent study of a beggar woman. Toulmouche has one of those exquisite portraits of the lady whom he never tires of painting nor the world of admiring, dressed in that blue velvet wrapper which always becomes her so perfectly. This time she is leaning over a table and enjoying the fragrance of a bouquet of flowers. Vibert has a finely-colored Pompejian Woman fishing in aromantic-looking pool. There are sketches by Delacroix and Achenbach, Rossi, and Simonetti. One of the brightest and gayest pictures is that of Moreau, full of the light and air of youth and summer. American art is adequately rep- 4 resented by Kensett, Richards, and Church. The contribution of the last is a striking and admirably finished picture of a passing storm. The pictures will be sold on Thursday, the 19th. Commercial Advertiser. A small but unusually fine collection of oil-paintings, forming the private gal- lery of Mr. Adolf Kohn, was opened for exhibition at the Leavitt Art Galleries, No. 817 Broadway, on Thursday evening, and attracted quite a large company of ladies and gentlemen, admirers of art, who were lavish in their expressions of pleasure at the demonstrative character of the display. The collection embraces only about sixty pictures altogether, but they are of unusually high class, both in regard to names and quality, and are of a size usually denominated cabinet works. We have rarely met with a gallery of paintings combining so much ex- cellence in its composition as this. Jn landscapes, there is a charming example of French art by Daubigny, which is a veritable poem on eanyas. It illustrates a quict pastoral scene, over which is thrown a beautiful atmospheric effect, and one of the most delightful gray-toned skies imaginable. Victor Dupré, another of this illustrious school of painters, is represented by a landscape, rich in color and powerful in the effect of light and shade. There are, also, in landscapes, a spirited view with cattle, of marvelous power, by De Cock; a brilliant storm effect, by Andreas Achenbach ; a strong coast scene, by Flamm, of Dusseldorf ; and a fine harbor scene, ‘‘The Port of Dover,” by Maurice F. H. De Haas. Of the genré subjects, there is an interior, entitled ‘‘ The Smoker,”’ by Ed. Allen Schmidt, of Dusseldorf, which is full of expression, rich in color, and is handled with a breadth and off-hand vigor which is particularly enjoyable to educated eyes. The name of Toulmouche, and titere is none greater known to French art, is represented by the figure of a young lady with a bouquet. It is superbly finished, and in tone is very attractive. Kaemmerer has the figure of a young girl preparing for the bath. It is entitled ‘‘ Innocence,” and its delicacy of treat-. ment and purity of expression we have rarely seen-excelled on canvas. From Vibert there is a beautifully painted figure of a half-nude young woman, which shows the greatest precision in drawing, and is painted with a solidity and rich- ness of tone which is worthy of the artist’s fame. Representing the name of Diaz, there is a cabinet study, of rare beauty, of ‘‘ A Persian Mother and Child.” The costumes are of a rich texture, and in their treatment the most gorgeous combination of colors has been brought into play, but in so subtle a manner that perfect harmony is preserved throughout. Escosura has a clever little picture of a ‘‘ Young Musketeer,” seated on the esplanade of a fort during a bombard- ment. The bullets appear to be falling around him, but one has struck his hel- met, and he is apparently wondering at his narrow escape. ‘There are also ex- pressive, as well as exquisitely-painted pictures, by Linder, Lambron, Brillouin, Charles Sells of Dusseldorf, Tissot, Aubert, Firmin Girard, Appian, Corot, and. others. In water-colors, there are superb examples by Rossi, Simonetti, and the late Baron Leys. This unique collection is to be sold at auction, owing to the early departure of the owner for Europe, on Thursday evening, the 19th instant, without reserve, and in the meantime it will remain on free exhibition. The Datly Graphic, Nov. 14th. To THe Eprror or The Daily Graphic: ‘ THE finest picture sale of so dull a season will have a representative import- ance. It will be seen whether there is any money in the city for the purchase of such luxuries as works of art. Messrs. Leavitt have prepared their beautiful halls for the contest with all the attractiveness they know so well how to exer- cise. The ante-room is decorated with statuary, which furnishes well, whatever the individual merit of the figures, and the gallery is brilliant with flowers and birds, to say nothing of the pictures, which form the particular attraction. These are the collections of Mr. Adolf Kohn, who is about leaving for a long absence in Europe, and have in their ensemble the aspect of a well-selected private gallery. One of the gems of this gallery of sixty pictures is the small oil sketch by An- toine Vollon. This is the artist celebrated for having painted a fish in half an hour and gained a medal for it at the Paris Exhibition. An example of Vollon’s landscapes was until lately hung in the Metropolitan Museum, and there is a large specimen of his still-life in the Witlstach collection in Philadelphia. The present ein 5 picture represents a scene on the outskirts of Paris, at the Port de Bercy. The groves and buildings of the suburbs are dotted over a distant bank of the Seine, which is heaped up with a full tide, reflecting on its receding ripples the silvery gray of acoo] sky. The even mass of vaporous clouds which fills the heavens is most happily painted, as well as the horizon, blotted here and there with melt- ing phantoms of factory smoke. The nearer buildings are painted with plaques of color, made out with rule-and-line details in the manner of Canaletti and Guar- di, and ‘the correct impression of endless multitude is conferred by very few touches. The specimen of Calame is a mere study of effect, a storm on a mount- ain-top, without any of that imposing cleverness of brush- drawing which his fin- ished works exhibit. By Flamm, one of the best landscapists of the Dusseldorf school, there is a sea-coast in twilight that would easily be taken for an Oswald Achenbach, and a good specimen. By Andreas Achenbach there is a rain-washed, sunset mill scene, in red and orange, very wet looking and dazzling. The Dau- bignys—Charles and his son Karl—have several slight specimens in evidence. A small picture by Church, ‘‘ The Passing Storm,” exhibits his easy effectiveness and Limoges-enamel finish. A very delicate and beautiful little Corot shows his green clouds of April foliage, with a shadow of white cottage and tremulous ash trees in placid water, that only trembles with the shivering reflections. There is a small water-color called a Turner, with a distant Rhine view and an undi- ° gested mass of foreground trees, whose authenticity has all the proof conferred by the fact that it came out of the notorious Thompson sale, so rich in soi-disant old masters and their old masterpieces. Among the figure pictures are several cabinet gems. One of the first that catches the eye is a nude little girl preparing to bathe, drawn by Kemmerer with all that ivory accuracy distinctive of the school of his teacher, Gerome. Near it is a good specimen of Escosura, a mousquetaire examining a bullet-hole in his salade helmet, and chuckling over the narrow escape of his jhead. A Diaz, con- sisting of two standing Oriental figures, is a button-hole bouquet of the most ex- quisite color. By Vibert there is a Pompejian woman, half nude. By Tissot there is an excellent study of a single figure, in very low tone ; a comedian in costume regence, and wrapped in a heavy cloak, is lifting his cocked hat for a con- summate bow. By his master, the late eminent Baron Leys, there is a sepia drawing, dated 1841, of an Ostade-like subject, and of course showing the maz - ner of Leys before "fame ‘tapped him on the shoulder ; it is good, “put timid. Adrien Moreau, in a scene evidently painted out in the open air, after the man- ner of the best ‘Buropean artists for similar subjects, shows three girls gathering flowers and tanning their complexions. Philippe Mei, one of the glittering Ro- man school of colorists, has a scene of Addisonian humor, showing an elderly male coquette presenting anosegay toa Miss Lydia Languish ; this study of eight- eenth century humor is a genuine Spectator, and is a prize. Toulmouche, who always paints from his wife, represents that la dy in one of her solemn- “ey eu weary-looking attitudes. The meretricious Linder, best known for lithographs of scenes at Mabille, has a showy girl reclining and ‘try? ing to look virtuous, the caption being “Thoughts of Love.” Firmin Girard contributes a scene of the antique Arcadia, with a shepherd plunging through brambles for berries to fill the basket of his adored. His bare arms are vetting well scratched, a result which the very Parisian Phillis regards with an expression of modern amuse- ment. This is almost the only large canvas in a collection made up generally of parlor pictures. The sale will be held next Thursday. —ERAsTUS SOUTH. From the Times, Sunday, November 15. The first art sale of the season is announced to take place on the 19th inst., at the Leavitt Art Rooms. It is not often that so choice and well-selected a collee- tion as the one offered falls into the auctioneers hands. Without startling us by its extent or brilliancy, it evinces that the owner is a man of taste and judgment, and after a careful inspection, we are satisfied that there is not one really poor or inartistic work in the lot. Among the gems of the collection, we should place Xavier De Cock’s ‘ Land- scape and Cattle,’’ Schmidt’s ‘‘ The Smoker,’’ Escosura’s ‘‘ Musketeer,’ Vibert’s ‘* Pompejian Woman, David Col’s ‘ News from the Seat of War,”’ Achenbach’s “After the Storm,”’ and Moreaw’s “ Gathering Wild Flowers,”’ any one or all of which would erace any gallery in the world. “The first-named work is, indeed, very charming, showing such breadth and freedom of touch, such harmony and mastery of color, so much feeling and strength of expression, that it would be difficult to praise it too highly. Schmidt, who has been called “the Flemish | -Meissonnier,”’ is fairly represented here by a cavalier smoking, a work distin- 6 guished by its brilliancy of color and the skill with which the texture of the flesh, silk, velvet, and the ornaments of the mantle are represented. Escosura’s ‘‘ Musketeer”? is also in the style of Meissonnier. It tells its own story very charmingly. A musketeer has surmounted a breach in the wall of a fortress, and is now examining his helmet, in which a dent by a musket-ball shows the peril he has escaped. It is one of the best of Escosura’s smaller works that we have ever seen. In Vibert’s ‘‘ Pompejian Woman,” we have a charming bit of flesh painting, with a suggestive landscape, and in Appian’s ‘‘ Bathing Girls,’? we have a still finer landscape, rich and pure in color and artistic in treatment. From Andreas Achenbach there is a bold, broadly-touched water-color, *‘‘ After the Storm,” which requires the full light of day upon it to bring out its effects ; and there is also a Turner here, a water-color, in regard to the genuineness of which there can be no doubt., It represents a waterfall on the Rhine. Without falling into ecstasies over it because it is a Turner, few persons with any knowl- edge or appreciation of art, we think, can fail to see in it the master’s hand, and acknowledge the wonderful skill with which the colors have been blended and made to form a harmonious whole. Moreau’s ‘‘ Gathering Wild Flowers” is another fine work, full of silvery light. The composition is as unpretending as the title. Three young girls are walking through a field of standing grain, gather- ing flowers as they go. ‘‘Shadows make the picture,” says some of our con- noisseurs, yet there is no shadow here, save the one on the girl’s face in the fore- ground. We have, nevertheless, a strikingly good picture, full of tender feeling and beauty. Bonifazi, whose works are better known and appreciated in London than in New York, has a tender ‘‘ Head of an Italian Girl ;’’ Brillouin, a cavalier walking ona terrace ; Schmidt, a carefully executed ‘‘ Head of a Monk ;’’ Lam- bron, ‘‘ The Masquerade,” a work which tells its own story ; Sell, the soldier- artist, three or four small paintings, the best of which represents the Emperor William and his staff on the battle-field ; Tissot, a solidly-painted figure, entitled ‘“The Comedian ;’’ Calame, a small study of mountain and lake scenery, and Bellows’ ‘‘ Interior of a Wood,’’ coo] and dark and mysterious. A small picture by Madrazo, ‘‘ The Spanish Woman ;”’ a dashing sketch of Delacroix, “ Arab and Horse,” and a painting in sepia by Baron Henry Leys, must not be passed over. ‘‘ Gathering Berries,’’? by Firmin Girard, quite a large work, is notable for its fine drawing and pure color, though the subject is somewhat curiously treated. Kaemmerer’s ‘ Innocence,” a young girl bathing, shows a firm hand, so far as the drawing of the body is concerned, though exception may be taken to the contour of the lower limbs. Specimens of our own school will be found by Church, Kensett, Bellows, and Richards, The entire collection, which comprises sixty pictures, is the property of Mr. ae Kohn, and is to be sold without reserve. It is now on view at the Leavitt allery. From the Evening Post, Saturday, November 14th. A collection of cabinet paintings, the work of eminent foreign artists, and owned by Mr. Adolf Kohn, of No. 1 East Fourteenth Street, was opened for a private view at the Leavitt Art Rooms, No. 817 Broadway, on Thursday evening, and is to be sold at auction on Thursday evening, the 19th inst. These pictures represent eminent names, and are artistic works in every sense of the word; and they are to be sold for the sole reason that the owner is about to leave for Eu- rope, where-he contemplates remaining several years. We have had no collection of paintings offered in an auction room of late years in this city which embraced so many art gems as this, and that it will receive the attention of connoisseurs we have no doubt. Representing the name of Toul- mouche there is a cabinet canvas giving the half-length figure of a young lady with a bouquet of flowers, which is painted in his best style, and shows the superb qualities of color and finish for which that celebrated master of the present school of French art is so justly celebrated. Another little picture of rare merit is by Escosura, and shows the court-yard of a fort under bombardment, with the figure of a handsome young guardsman seated on the ground, examining his helmet, which has been struck by a musket ball, and who manifests some aston- ishment at his narrow escape from death. The figure is well drawn, and the composition altogether is richly colored and finely finished. J. G. Vibert has a charming little picture of a half-nude young woman. The work is carfully studied, and is remarkable for the transparency and clearness of its flesh tints. Adrien Moreau has a sparkling rural scene, in which several cf young ladies appear walking through a field of waving grain and gathering the wild flowers which grow beside their pathway. ‘The sun is shining prightly, and gives a brilliant character to the view. David Col, whose merit as an artist is tully appreciated in this country, is represented by a humorous picture, entitled ‘Reading the News from the Seat of War,” which, although only of cabinet size, combines the spirit and other excellencies of his larger works. *‘Innocence,’’ by Kaemmerer, represents the nude tigure of a girl. The face is turned from the spectator, and the figure in its litne grace gives expression only to sentiments of purity and innocence in accordance with its title. Linder, of Paris, has the cleverly-painted figure of a young and pretty woman, which is also very attractive in colour; and Diaz is represented by ‘tA Persian Lady and Child,’ a picture which is well drawn, and ilustrates most forcibly his broad and bold manner of treatment, and also the masterly massing of color tor which bis works are famous. ‘here are also fine representative genré works by Lambron, Ed. Allen Schmidt, Aubert, Firmin Girard, Montfallet, Joseph ‘Lissot, Sell of Dusseldorf, the great painter of cavalry pictures, Brillouin, and several fine water-color drawings by Simonetti, Kossi, and others. in marine pictures there is a vivia view of ‘* the Port of Dover,’ by M. F. H. De Haas, which was originally in the belmont collection, and was purchased by Mr. Kohn at that sale ; and a gray-toned coast scene by I'lamm oi Dusseldort. Andreas Achenbach is represeuted by a storm scene of great power and beauty ; Karl Daubigny, who stands at the nead ot the modern school of Hrench land- scape painters, by a fresh and charmingly-studied landscape ; and there are also fine pictures by Victor Dupré, Corot, Xavier Ve Cock, anu others. ‘ihe coliec- tion contains altogether apout sixty pictures, and is now open for public inspec- tion. from the Evening Matt. The Messrs. Leavitt announce that the first exhibition of the season—a collec- tion of highly artistic cabinet pictures belonging to Mr. Adolf Kohn—is now open at the Art-Kooms, $17 Broadway. ‘Lhis coliecuuon comprises some sixty pictures, but the examples are representative works of tne leading painters of murope ana America, and it is seldom, indeed, that such excellent and admirable works of art are brought into the market. it is difficuit to choose the chiefest picture in an exhibition where the standard of excellence is so elevated throughout; but we shall not err in taking up iirst the superb example of Xavier De Vock, numbered 45, and entitied *‘ Lanascape and Catele.”’ ‘L'nis artist is one of the leading men of the modern Belgian senool, and bis work is noted ior broad truth to nature and superb renderloy of physical sentiment. ‘The picture in point is a perfect iiustration of this artist 10 bis strongest temper, and, as a masterpiece of a master-painter, We may rank it the best 1n the coieccion. Hacing the last-named picture, on the other side of the room, is an example of A. Appian, of Paris, entivied ‘‘ Girls Bathing” (83), which, although in a dinerent style, is no less admirable, Appian is a palnter wu0se worss are seldom seen in this country, nor do we wonder at their absence, for pictures such as that before us are the work Of many careful weeks, and not of aiew hours. A painter like Appian does not toil for the muititude, out ior tne few ; he publishes ols achieve- Meuts at long intervals, and they are immediately suappeu up by his expectant patrons. ‘Ihe title of the picture scareely expresses tue design. ‘Tue artist shows us a bevy of sportive damsels, woo are Comparing the syusmetry of their figures with the marole grace of the statue wiicn adorns tue batuing-pool. ‘Lue treatinent of this subject is exquisite. It is intended and finished iu the Ianner of the Bolognese school, and the deshb-colors of the figures projected out against the eluboraved foliage of the back-ground, his is a work whic will be appreciated by connoisseurs, and we leave it for their discussion. AS aD eccentricity of art, we may refer to the ‘‘ Watertall on the Rhine”’ (14), by the great J. N. W. Lurner, whico is a drawing in water-colors purcnaseu by tur. Koon from the ‘Lnompson colieciion, and the authenticity of which 1s guaranteed. ‘lhere is no need of such assurance, for none save tuat divine mad- iwwan of color would ever have so dared to stain the paper to so wonderful an eitect, itis an example of Lurner, not, pernaps, in his most intelliziole mood, but carrying with 1t tue power and force of his supreme genius, ‘he fraternity of Landscape painters are represented well. We have “ After the Storm’? (24), a study in water colors by Andreas Achenbach ; ‘‘A Passing Storm’’ (SV), by our great artist Cnuren ; a ‘* Scene on the Banks of tue Oise’? (33), by the younger Daubigny ; and a ‘‘ Landscape’’ (44), by the more celebrated Cnarles francois Daubigny; ‘‘'the Coast of Capri’’ (41), by H. Flamm; an “ tn- \ | f terior of a Wood ”’ (40), by A. F. Bellows; a ‘‘ Landscape”’ by Corot (45), and 4 de: iction of ‘‘ Lake Genesee ”’ (59), by the late J. F. Kensett. There is no need to »eak of these pictures in detail; the mere mention of the artists is sufficient to snow he » comprensive yet select is the collection. Among the sea pieces we may refer particularly to the ‘‘ Port de Berey” (57), by Antoine Vollon, of Paris; and the ‘‘ Port of Dover’ (18), by M. F. 1:. De Haas, ot New York, who seldom paints works in these days with the care and attention v’ ich distinguish this earlier effort of his genius. ior g une figure pieces ‘‘The Musketecr’’ (51), Leon Escosura, will compare i .abl~” with the choicest works of Meissonnier, and ‘‘ Preparing for the Duel’”’ ‘* ) G. ontfallet, fails little short in point of treatment and finish. Diaz is spresented by ‘‘ A Persian Lady and Chi2” (48), which is a splendid piece of olorine, and Vibert’s ‘‘Pompejian Woman” (54) is a splendid example in oil, vondre is rich in tone and delicate in treatment. Baron Leys is represented by 4 sketch of “‘A Happy Family’ (84); Tissot, by ‘‘Tne Comedians’’ (27) ; Toulmouche, by ‘‘The Bouquet’’ (55); Linder, by “‘Thoughts of Love’”’ (28); and last, but not least, Adrien Moreau, by a magnificent picture of some modern ladies ‘‘ Gathering Wild Flowers.”’ \ In the ante-chamber to the gallery ave arranged a number of magnificent- ‘ pieces of marble statuary by Marshall Woed and Rauch, also Ives of Rome and Park of Florence. We have not sufficient space to devote to-day to the discus- sion of these works of art, but will deal with them as soon as possible. The collection will remain on exhibition during the week until Thursday evening, tebe it will be sold by auction at the Clinton Hall Sale-rooms by the Messrs. eay. vt. ; From N.Y. Staats Zeitung, Nov. sth, translated from the German. The Messrs. Leavitt & Co. have on exhibition a collection of cabi:et paintings, the private gallery of Mr. Adolf Kohn. They are all admirable pictures, many from the brush of celebrated artists ; among others, we notice two good land- scapes of Daubigny; a charming little Dupré; an excellent study, ‘*A Beggar Woman,” by Madrazo; a charming ‘‘ Femate Portrait,’? by Toulmouche, and a genré painting, ‘‘ Pompejian Woman,’’ by Vibert. ‘There are, also, drawings by Achenbach, Delacroix, Rossi, Simonetti, and other distinguished artists. Ameri- oa art is also well represented with tine landscapes by Church, Kensett, and ichards, atl ioe Lhe Sale will take place at the Clinton Hall Sale Rooms, Thursday Evening, November 19th. A lim- zted number of seats will be reserved for the use of — Buyers, application for which should be made at once to the Auctioneers personally or by letter. GHO: A. daRAVITT. & CO; rae Oe Clinton Hall, Astor Place. CATALOGUE OF A _ COLLECTION Opelliicun CLAseods OIL PAINTINGS, By the most Eminent Artists of the various Foreign Schools, THE IMPORTATION OF MR. ADOLF KOHN, 166 FIFTH AVE. Poy ON FREE EXHIBITION, AT THE Reavitt Art Rooms, 817 si DAY AND EVENING, TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,’ On Tuesday Evening, April 17th, 1877, MePeencHr O' Crock, P.M; AD DELLE CLINTON HALL SALE ROOMS, ine Messrs. LEAVITT, Auctioneers; * aa) a ee > oe: ee ae i ee we Pl PA Be 4S at CONDITIONS, OF Saga 1. The highest Bidder to be the Buyer, and if any dispute — arise between two or more Bidders, the Lot so in dispute — hall be immediately put up again and re-sold. 3 2. The Purchasers to give their names and addresses, and to pay down twenty-five per cent. on the dollar in part pay-— ment, or the whole of the Purchase-money, if required, in default of which the Lot or Lots so purchased to be imme-— diately put up again and re-sold. 4 3. The Lots to be taken away at the Buyer’s Expense and Risk within three days from the conclusion of the Sale, and the remainder of the Purchase-money to be abso- — lutely paid, or otherwise settled for to the satisfaction of the Vendors, on or. before delivery: in default of which Messrs. — Gro. A. Leavitr & Co. will not hold themselves responsi- — ble, if the Lots be lost, stolen, damaged, or destroyed, but they will be left at the sole risk of the Purchaser. ua 4, The Sale of any Painting, Engraving, Print, Hage : ture, Works of Art, or any other article, is not to be set aside on account of any error in the description. All arti- cles are exposed for Public Exhibition one or more ee and are sold just as they are without recourse. 5. To prevent inaccuracy in delivery and inconvenience — : in the settlement of the Purchases, no Lot can, on any ac- aa count, be removed during the Sale. ae 6. Upon failure of complying with the above éouditions the money deposited in part payment shall be forfeited; all Lots uncleared within the time ag shall be fee Pe: > the Defaalter at tiie Sale, boprethan mk ‘all chai attending the same. ‘This Gomitich is without preje to the right of the Auctioneers to enforce the ee at this Pale, without such re-sale, if they think fit. GHO. A. LEAVITT & & 00. D Pern {VICTOR), - Paris (Pupil of Jules Dupré. Medal, 1849.) Landscape. 2 pee DACH (KARL), Dusseldorf SS ; DosiroblA Happy Mother. Fo Y 3 GARNIER (JULES ARSENE), Paris (Pupil of Géréme. Honorable mention, French Salon, 1S 702) Charles VII. and Agnes So- rel. of gga A FINES (EUGENE), Paris (Pupil of Cogniet. From the Salon, 1876, No. 791.) La Convalescente. ae 5 OS: JEU ? LESREL (ADOLF), © (Pupil of Géréme.) 4, 7, Soldier, Louis Cutt EPP (RUDOLF), The Little Student. EPP (RUDOLF), The Pet Doll. 8 SCHNEIDER (AMABLE), (Pupil of Drolling.) Baby Just Awake. 9 ROUGERON (JULES JAMES), (Pupil of Cabanel.) Wy Before the Rehearsal. ING: i} OP j pb Lt Lif f i iv f i gs: y Paris Munich Munich Paris Paris, IO Sere NCW (AUGUST F-.), Paris (Medal, 1865, and Centennial Exhibition, 1876.) “ wero, — Sheep. II KARGER (KARL), : Munich (Pupil of Kaulbach.) J). Mother and Child. I2 fei (PREDERIC), Munich Coming Back from the Vil- lage Serenade. es ‘DELOBBE (ALFRED), Paris (Pupil of Bougereau. Medals, 74, 75.) 4 I¢ Pihebct aL oo 14 BOUCHERVILLE (ADRIEN), Paris (Pupil of M. Barrias.) Reverie. a) O’KELLY (ALOIS), Paris (Pupil of Géréme and Bonnat.) 53, . Brittany Landscapegeaaees Sheep. 16 OPE So SPRING (ADOLF), 4é? iy riels 9607 A Merry Trio. 17 jot (PAWUL LEON), Pare (Pupil of M. Barrias.) ey as The Mandolin Player. 18 SOUDER (ALEXANDER Y 2p oe (Medals, ’36, 55. Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.) Sila ie. See ff fi 5 et wl ary}: La 7 . ek ‘ ie er it ,7 ex z ‘ I . Y x v ‘ x ’ i , ‘ {USQUIZA (R), _ tae ioe ee (Pupil of Madrazo and Ricco.) ioe a o IAS Spring at Venice. 20 | c 8 Ste RICHET (EUGENE), Zee4 Re Pasis as (From the Salo, 1876, No. 1733.) 10, The Poacher. GL, ye VELY (ANATOLE), ¢ 2 WIG Pa a er (Medal, 1874.) cr: me De Dusseldorf — ei The Bible, A¢44/ 3 2 /si EC SGERT (Prof: AUGUST), Des Newspaper. 24 LESREL (ADOLF), » -y:»/ | (Pupil of Ceromen The Guard. | 2p MILIUS (J. AUGUST), (Pupil of Gleyre.) The New Wine. 26 BONHEUR (JULIETTE PEYROL), (Pupil of Rosa Bonheur.) 27 GUILLAUMET (GUSTAVE), (Medals, 65, ’67, 72, 76.) Vie, Arabian Cavalier. Io Landscape and Sheep. Paris Paris Paris — Paris ~ } 28° COOMANS (JOSEPH), Dh Sea (Medals, Brussels, Hague, Rouen, Sydenham, Chevalier of the _ Order of Leopold of Belgium.) Surprise. / 4 fi 29 GIDE (THEOPHILE), | ~ Paris _ (Pupil of Delaroche. Medals, ’61, ’65, '66. Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. ) } a, The Confession. fe : 20 LAMBINET (EMILE), Bee Paris / z (Medals, 743, 53 ’57. Chevalier of ing ee of Honor.) - The Wheat Field. Af > 31 PASCUTTI (ANTONIO), Paris (Member of the Royal Academy of Venice. ) 4 i) ) + The Lace Merchant. 7 Ly | EY v ya y a Se 3? BROWN (JOHN LEWIS),~ ~ Paris (Medals, 65, 66, °67. Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.) The. Halt at the sia Steppe. ef) De-CONINCK (PIERRE), (44 eae (Medals, ’66, ’68, ’73. ) "he Little cue 34 KIENLIN (JULES), Paris (Pupil of Picot. From the Salon, 1876, No. 1122.) <7 ff Les Nieces du. (apdiaeiae Lf Mazarin. 35 DUPRAY (HENRY LOB) Paris (Medals, ’72, 74.) A. Marshal of France after. a Vi ag Review. oi k itu tre 36 BeMGREAU (ADRIEN),: 27%144%" ).. f- -¢ sparis (Medal, 1876.) ] fo. ~~ Lhe Smoker. SELL (Prof, CHRISTIAN), ——dDusseldorf asf The Battle of Sadowa. 38 TOULMOUCHE (AUGUST), Paris (Medals, ’52, 69,71. Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.) 5 J Eugenie. | : 39 BOUCHERVILLE (ADRIEN), Paris (Pupil of M. Barrias.) 4 SP In the Conservatory. 40 BOURGES (Mlle. LEONIDE), | ree (Pupil of Ed. Frére and Daubigny. ) “4 oe > Lhe Woodgatherers. 13 ‘4 CEMATIRE (CASIMIR), : ie (Pupil cf Gérome and Chaplin.) @/yUV<> A Mountebank’s Performance 1 AVY ae near Fontainebleau (France). (Time of the first Empire. Painted in 1877.) 42 FRERE (THEODOR), Paris (Medals, 1848, ’65.) | 4.. (-f ey ° BASU: .. The Street “ Khan “Kalil ae Cairo. 43 DECAMP (A. G.), | Paris ( Deceased.) | - . (Medals, ’31 °34. Legion of Honor, 1839; Officer, 1851.) Study to the Pictiress sees -; ‘Chasseurs aux (Ganepaes 44 | , 1 /B - ; KRONBERG (JULIUS), OH bVO\ — Neh lv. 24 (Pupil of Pilt ty. ir a 44 0.) TheDaisg Pe 14 —— Tage 4s | +Z, ae VA Mae ose: LAWLOR (JOHN), A.R.H.A, 2-1 tendon (Medals, "51, 53, 67, and one of the principal contributors to the Groups of Statuary for the Albert Memorial.) ie Maria and Sylvia. Suggested by the following passage in ‘‘ Sverne’s’”” touching story of *‘ Maria” in the Sentimental Journey : ‘* When we had got within half a league of Moulines, at: ‘the. little opening in the road leading to a thicket, I discovered poor Maria sitting under a poplar. She was sitting with her elbow in her lap, and her head leaning on one side within her hand ; a amall brook ran at the foot of the tree. She was dressed in white, and much as my friend described her, except that her hair hung loose, which before was twisted with a silken net. She had superadded, likewise, to her jacket a pale green riband, which fell across her shoulder to the waist; at the end hung her pipe. Her goat had’ been as faithless as her lover and she had got a little dog in lieu of him, which she kept tied by _astring to her side. As I looked at her dog she drew him toward her with the string. ‘‘ Thou shalt not leave me, Sylvia,” said she. I looked in Maria’s eyes and saw she was thinking more of her father than of her lover or her little goat, for as she uttered them the tears trickled down her cheeks.” ee Mr. Lawlor stands to-day in the front rank of British Sculptors, and a Medal of Honor was awarded to him for his statue, the ‘* Bather,” which was purchased by the Queen for her private col- lection at Osborne Palace, Isle of Wight. ee era 15 eo er /LANDELLE (CHARLES), ‘ (Pupil ae Delar oche.) ; _ (Medals, °42, “4.5, "48, “55 ; Centennial Exhibition, 1876. we alier of Legion of Honor. ue | ek on A ( | he Exile: Bac? “(Thoughts of Home) me Ure re, { 47 a SCHLESINGER (FRANZ), a Muni Behe Dog must Guard dl "5 y/ ie Houta a6 DESGOFFE (BLAISE), sca a : 7 eae - "Still Life - Couvre a en cuirre repoussé “XIIL .» Aemacedte de cuivre ouvrage flamand du temps du Louis Ata sah ee Souffet en pee clouée en cuivre d'oré et couvert des 7 a Couronne de France 16¢ Siecle. AERO ae ase st. es du 18e Siécle. rae de Cluny. ) OeeS de Clan No. 519.) Bl, Desgoffe. (The above Bees pion is attached to the picture.) _ Re 49 ZIEM (FELIX), — Paris tedals 51, 52, 55. . Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.) 4 Venice. -(Afternoon.) a 50 ICHETTI (PAOL), AY k Naples (Pupil of Jean Louis Hamon.) / ( _ The Proposal. a he : AMACOIS fDOUARD),..... Parla ame | (Deceased. Pupil of Meissonier. ) a i A Bourbon Courtier. . Aes : me TZ (CARL), | Munich y (Pupil of Knaus. ) = | Singing School. wi CHAVET (VICTOR), Aare. (Medals, ’53, 55, 57. Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. by oe ‘Cup and Ball. 54 SCHNEIDER (FELICIE), (Pupil of Cogniet, Medal, 1876.) “ Marguerite.” 5 JAQUET (GUSTAVE), 3 (Medals, 1868. First-class medal, ne pe wy) 7 Thoughts of the Past. 56 LAMBINET (EMILE), (Medals, 43, ’53, 57. Chevaher of te Legion of Sy fee? (ero, FREDERICK), Munich a 1857, and Vienna Exhibition, 1873. j got | The Return from Pasture. 58 ARMAND DUMARESQUE (EDOUARD), Paris (Medals, ’61 63. Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.) iA fb pitial of a’ Spy ‘during: the Rs American War. BY | TORTEZ (VICTOR), Paris (Pupil of Géréme. From the Salon, 1876, No. 1954.) aay A la Promenade en 1798. 60 SEITZ (Professor ANTON), : Munich (Various medals. Chevalier of the Order of St. Michel of Bavaria.) The Musical Rehearsal. [PO : from the collection of Baron Liebig.) | 19 a) [Ol Moos: (EON ARID e Paris (Medals, Rome, Brussels, London. Chevalier of the Order of Leopold, of Belgium, and of the Crown of Italy. From the Salon, 1876.) any ¥4 fr Ay , fa age : Af UE La Romance. y ie 62 FROMENTIN (EUGENE), (deceased). Paris (Medals, ’49,/57,'59,'67. Legion of Honor, 1859. Officer, 1867. as a. ) 7+) Mn A Riding Yard in Arabia. 63 DUPRE (JULES), Paris \/ (Medals, 33,49. Chevalier, Legion of Honor, 1849, and Offi- cer of the same, 1867.) Marine. 64 MADRAZO (RICARDO), Paris V ef Una Senorita de Sevilla. y, V 20 | | " (A Bs ‘DAUBIGNY Pew to FRANCOIS), Paris ‘> De Ste dais, *48, 53; 55, 57,59. First-class medal Universal Ex- hibition, 1867. Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, 1859, and - Officer of the same, 1867. Farly Spring. mew {|AQOUES), Paris | cee (Various Medals. Chevalier of the Order of Francis Joseph of : pee and of the ct of Leopold of Belgium. From the Salon The Bano cous Xl We A few days after the Birth pf the Dauphin the ereat dignitaries e Queen, the Princess de Condé ; mente, and Madame de Lausac ; in nd the Duchess de la Eremville ; op- B 67 BONHEUR (AUGUST), Paris (Medals, ’52,’57, 61, 63. Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.) ad U Sheep on the Scotch High- lands. 68 Behave ik (ADOLEE), Frankfort (Medals, 64, °65,’67. Vienna Exposition, 1873.) Wallachian Smugglers Cross- ing the Frrontter. 69, DIAZ De La PENA (N.), (deceased), Paris (Medals, 1844, 46, 48. Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.) tn 45 Q- Forest of Fontainebleau. 7O PUN LX, Paris (Medals, 1851, ’52, 55. Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.) Venice (Twilight). 22 : y ? “9 AY ye Z vA ; yas Peeeatole (2DOUARD), Paris (Pupil of Meissonier. Medals, *69, ’70,’72. Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. ) The Flag \Bearer. fa BOLDINI (A.), Paris Elche Duet. The last two paintings, Nos. 71 and 72, had not ar- rived when this Catalogue was prepared, but will be exhibited im time before the sale. 23