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No. 10 (January, 1894)
DOI Artikel:Solon, Louis M.: Pâte sur pâte
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Pate sur Pate
selected from amongst the most promising youths
PATE SUR PATE. BY M. L. wn0 attended his public classes. I joined early
SOLON. the small group of congenial spirits he had
May a craftsman-more accustomed gathered together and to whom he supplied, with
to ply the china tools than the pen-be disinterestedness, his good advice and the life
excused if he venture to jot down in his own words model His was a most unconventional and
a few notes upon a decorative process he has prac- '"regular where the rule was that every one
tised for thirty-five years, and which he hopes to should be free to follow his own impulse and en-
.. „c v,P ,v snared to deavour to strike out for himself a path of his
continue to practise as long as he is spareu iu _ v
, „ own. We were all anxious to learn, all full of
work ?
Pite sur Pate undoubtedly lends itself to artistic lofty aspirations, and of bright hopes with regard
treatment yet very few painters or sculptors-with to the future, but none of us, as far as I can
the exception of the talented artists on the staff of remember, was much encumbered with this world's
the manufactory of Sevres-have resorted to it for goods. Notwithstanding this last disadvantage,
the rendering of original conceptions. I do not not a few of our small brotherhood have made
mean to enter into the vindication of its capabilities, their mark in art, each in a way very different from
but I cannot refrain from recording here my in- the rest. Alphonse Legros, Fantin, the Regameys,
debtedness to a process from which I have derived L'hermite, Cazin, and many others less known in
so much satisfaction, and which, moreover, has England, were amongst those I am proud to
permitted me to exist—always doing factory work remember as my friends at the " Atelier Lecoq."
—with perhaps a little more comfort than falls But while all my fellow-workers were preparing for
generally to the lot of a factory hand. the higher contest of the annual "Salon," I felt
How it came to pass that, early in life, after a drawn by natural disposition towards decorative
course of desultory and aimless studies, I happened and applied art. I was found more often studying
to find at last, a direct application for the little Greek vases and terra-cottas than pictures, and the
knowledge of drawing I had managed to acquire, Cluny Museum had to me as great an attraction as
may perhaps be of some interest to my brother the Louvre.
craftsmen Many were the sketches I made of imaginary
M. Lecoq de Boisbaudrant, professor at the masterpieces to be executed in marble, bronze,
Elementary School of Design in Paris, had opened precious metal; all of them declared, when sub-
a private studio, in which the students had been mitted to competent judges, to be as impracticable
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selected from amongst the most promising youths
PATE SUR PATE. BY M. L. wn0 attended his public classes. I joined early
SOLON. the small group of congenial spirits he had
May a craftsman-more accustomed gathered together and to whom he supplied, with
to ply the china tools than the pen-be disinterestedness, his good advice and the life
excused if he venture to jot down in his own words model His was a most unconventional and
a few notes upon a decorative process he has prac- '"regular where the rule was that every one
tised for thirty-five years, and which he hopes to should be free to follow his own impulse and en-
.. „c v,P ,v snared to deavour to strike out for himself a path of his
continue to practise as long as he is spareu iu _ v
, „ own. We were all anxious to learn, all full of
work ?
Pite sur Pate undoubtedly lends itself to artistic lofty aspirations, and of bright hopes with regard
treatment yet very few painters or sculptors-with to the future, but none of us, as far as I can
the exception of the talented artists on the staff of remember, was much encumbered with this world's
the manufactory of Sevres-have resorted to it for goods. Notwithstanding this last disadvantage,
the rendering of original conceptions. I do not not a few of our small brotherhood have made
mean to enter into the vindication of its capabilities, their mark in art, each in a way very different from
but I cannot refrain from recording here my in- the rest. Alphonse Legros, Fantin, the Regameys,
debtedness to a process from which I have derived L'hermite, Cazin, and many others less known in
so much satisfaction, and which, moreover, has England, were amongst those I am proud to
permitted me to exist—always doing factory work remember as my friends at the " Atelier Lecoq."
—with perhaps a little more comfort than falls But while all my fellow-workers were preparing for
generally to the lot of a factory hand. the higher contest of the annual "Salon," I felt
How it came to pass that, early in life, after a drawn by natural disposition towards decorative
course of desultory and aimless studies, I happened and applied art. I was found more often studying
to find at last, a direct application for the little Greek vases and terra-cottas than pictures, and the
knowledge of drawing I had managed to acquire, Cluny Museum had to me as great an attraction as
may perhaps be of some interest to my brother the Louvre.
craftsmen Many were the sketches I made of imaginary
M. Lecoq de Boisbaudrant, professor at the masterpieces to be executed in marble, bronze,
Elementary School of Design in Paris, had opened precious metal; all of them declared, when sub-
a private studio, in which the students had been mitted to competent judges, to be as impracticable
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