Universitätsbibliothek HeidelbergUniversitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
Metadaten

International studio — 19.1903

DOI Heft:
No. 74 (April 903)
DOI Heft:
Werbung
DOI Artikel:
Uzanne, Octave: Frédéric Houbron: a painter of Paris
DOI Artikel:
Sparrow, Walter Shaw: Auguste Rodin's dry-point engravings
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26227#0124

DWork-Logo
Überblick
Faksimile
0.5
1 cm
facsimile
Vollansicht
OCR-Volltext
u///zwzs'/^ 7?c<^'//'y /^//'///.s'


" FANTAtSIE "

FROM THE DRY POfNT BY AUGUSTE RODIN

of which the artist, in the
course of his walks, loves
to grasp the city's minutest
expression, its smaliest
artistic aspect. He never
tires in his iove of this
beautiful Paris, but unceas-
ingiy portrays it in its most
diverse moods and forms.
With the assistance of a
process which is indeed an
invaiuable auxiiiary to his
art, he shows us in masteriy
fashion the Paris of to-day ;
and, whiie working for the
present, he is doing even
more for posterity by pre-
serving in an attractive form
the aspects of the city.
OCTAVE UZANNE.

T/i772/7/2g7*/7*g, Za A<7-/g &M'72/-Z)<?72Z.f, Z<?22/?M7*</
</% ZSg/az'.)', and Za %73<%7/72«. Occasionaliy
he has painted gardens—this fresh ZM^772/w7g*,
for instance, seen from the Fontaine Carpeaux;
or it is Notre-Dame, the Vesset of the city,
which has fascinated and detained him. Front-
face and sideways, three quarters and from behind,
he has striven to depict this oid ship of vener-
abie stone in its sublime
grandeur. Desiring to
show it frorn very near,
to see it as, doubtiess,
those who buiit the edi-
hce saw it, he conceived
it very big, very high, and
very beautiful.
In the same spirit
another artist, M. Ciaude
Monet, with pieasing au-
dacity conceived his long
series of views of Rouen
Cathedral — works which
were reaHy a triumph.
But I have been re-
ferring iatteriy to M. Hou-
bron's principai works.
I wish, by way of con-
clusion, it were possibie to
show in their the
numberless sketches and
plans and studies, the
hasty " notes" by means

A UGUSTE RODIN'S DRY-POINT
/\ ENGRAVINGS. BY WALTER
/—\sHAW SPARROW.
IT has been said with truth that French sculpture
at its best has ever been more or iess in open revolt
against the ideal stateiiness and repose inculcated
by Greek precedents. Thus, for exampie, a fondness


89
 
Annotationen