Recent Art Acquisitions to Public Collections

Recent Art Acquisitions to Public CollectionsAuthor(s): John HandleySource: Art & Life, Vol. 11, No. 5 (Nov., 1919), pp. 288-291Published by:Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20643791 .

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Courtesy Rhode Island School of Deslgm

PORTRAIT OF MANUEL GARCIA

BY JOHN SINGER SARGENT



Courtesy The Brooklyn Museum

INCENSE BURNER OF THE CHTEN LUNG PERIOD (1735-1795), GOURD-SHAPED BOTTLE OF THE YUNG CHENG PERIOD

(1723-1736) AND INCENSE BURNER (CH'IEN LUNG PERIOD) RECENTLY ADDED TO THE AVERY COLLECTION OF

THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM. GIFT OF MR. DANIEL P. AVERY, JR.

Recent Art Acquisitions to Public Collections

By John Handley

^^gjOHN SINGER SARGENT'S

^^^S^l Portrait of Manuel Garcia has

raff recently been acquired by the l?p^=^e0g| Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. This fine portrait, painted in 1905, presented to Garcia on his

centenary, is one of the finest and most

extraordinary interpretations from Sar

gent's masterly brush. As the note an

nouncing the acquisition, and quoting Mr. W. H. Downes in the Boston Evening

Transcript, remarks: "Undoubtedly the

strongly marked indications of age, ex

perience and intellectual activity in the eminent sitter were potent stimuli to the

portraitist, who has to be keenly in terested in the personality before him in order to do himself justice. Manuel Garcia, born in 1805, at Zafra, Catalonia,

Spain, was known as the Grand Old Man of the musical world. He sang the lead

ing baritone parts in Italian opera more than 80 years ago, one of his great sue

cesses being achieved in the part of

Figaro, in the Barber of Seville. In 1830 he retired from public singing and began his career as a teacher of vocal music. In

1840 he submitted to the French Insti tute his famous Memoirs sur la Voix

Humaine. About 1850, after having been

through the French Revolution, he re

signed his professorship at the Paris Conservatoire to go to England, which from that time became his permanent home. Five years later he gave to the world his wonderful invention, the laryn goscope, which, according to Sir Felix Semon, a leading throat specialist, has benefited 3 per cent of the human race. He has always been much interested in scientific pursuit, particularly in every thing that had to do with the throat and the vocal chords. His treatise on the human voice above-mentioned is said

to have laid the foundation for all sub

sequent investigations as to the produc 289



Courtesy The Brooklyn Museum

CHINESE PALACE CLOISONNE CENSER OF THE CH'IEN-LUNG PERIOD (1736-1795.) A RECENT GIFT TO THE AVERY COLLECTION, BROOKLYN MUSEUM, BY MR. SAMUEL P. AVERY, JR.



RECENT ART ACQUISITIONS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS 291

1. Courtesy The Brooklyn Museum

ANCIENT CHINESE BRONZE JAR OF THE HAN DYNASTY (206 B. C.?A. D. 25), BRONZE HANGING VASE OF THE HAN DYNASTY (FROM THE PRINCE KUNG COLLECTION), AND A BRONZE PILGRIM'S BOTTLE OF THE SUNG DYNASTY

(A. D. 51S-1127.) RECENT ADDITIONS OF THE AVERY COLLECTION IN THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM. GIFT OF MR. SAMUEL P. AVERY, JR.

tion of the voice. In 1847 he issued his Tratte Complete de VArt du Chant, which was afterwards translated into many

languages and attained a world-wide

home at Hartford, Conn., and make a

notable addition in dimensions and qual ity to the original collection. These recent additions to the Avery collec

reputation. His most im

portant contribution to science, however, was the

laryngoscope. The Brooklyn Museum

announces the receipt arid installation of a munificent gift from Mr. Samuel P. Avery, and that the ob jects are now on view in the first floor central section of the Museum. The gift in question makes a climax to the already celebrated Avery collec tion of Chinese cloisonne enamels by the addition of seventy-three pieces, beside which there are thirty-seven ancient Chi nese bronzes and gold bronzes. All the pieces were sent from Mr. Avery's

Courtesy The Brooklyn Museum CHIA CHING CLOISONNE TRIPOD CENSER. RECENTLY ADDED TO THE AVERY COLLECTION IN THE BROOK LYN MUSEUM. GIFT OF MR. SAMUEL

P. AVERY. JR.

tion have called for the construction of eight ad ditional .upright cases, of which five are of the con siderable size of 7^ feet long, 4 feet broad, and 7 feet high. The new install ation has also involved a rearrangement of the en

tire collection, already known as the largest and most important of its class in the world. The total number of enamels in the Avery collection, which includes painted Pekin enamels and champlev6 enamels, besides the cloi sonnes, is 360, of which 109 were presented about a year ago, including a screen from the Winter Palace at Pekin.



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