Abstract

Two Notable Pictures

The exhibition of Holman Hunt's great painting, "The Triumph of the Innocents," was opened to the public on March 2, 1885. The general expectation about this picture, of which for several years was very great, so that the room of the Fine Art Society in Bond Street in which it is shown is constantly thronged this week with visitors. The room is arranged with graduated benches, like a theatre, and the darkness secured by heavy dark draperies makes the light falling on the picture, and the picture itself, extremely brilliant. The picture, the prevailing tone of which is bright blue-green, is placed on a rich background of mulberry-colored plush, which is draped behind the frame. There can be seen a wide extent of cold wind-blown landscape, finely rendered, lighted by the moon.