International studio (20.1903)

"SISTERS" FROM THE PAINTING BY HIBOT

replace the late Mr. Preller, also held an exhibition of
his work, the first time he has shown it since he
became one of us. In his earlier days he made a
name for himself by painting Oriental landscapes ;
now he chooses his subjects nearer home, and
paints scenes from the various romantic woodland
and hill countries in which Germany abounds.
At Arnold's Galleries there was recently an exhi-
bition of some thirty to forty female portraits. It is
strangely different from what it would be if it had
been held in Paris or London. There we would
have seen more or less of an attempt at a show of
" beautiful women." But here no attention what-
ever is paid to the question of the personal charms
of the sitters. The assemblage of pictures interests
solely from technical and artistic points of view.

As a foil to this, one room is filled with a large
number of the exquisite lithographs of Fantin-

Latour, embracing nearly
all of his poetic illustra
tions to Berlioz, Schumann
and Wagner. Surely
among painters, Fantin
and Klinger are foremost
in their keen feeling for
the charms of music.
H. W. S.
OME.—The most
interesting feature
of the last Spring
exhibition was the
collection of paintings by
Domenico Morelli; forty-
five pictures, constituting
an organic whole, arranged
so as to show the artist's
progressive development
under the influence of
Celentano and Fortuny?,
through many changes of
technique and a vast
variety of subjects —
patriotic, oriental and
religious.

To illustrate the work of
this lamented artist, of
whom the readers of
THE STUDIO already know
something, we here give
reproductions of
(see page 301), very pleasing
in its simple treatment, dated 1870; and ^4
7%; AfaTw;;, 1877 (see page 302), in
which we still find a careful rendering of texture
in the draperies, though the painter's new aspira-
tions are very evident.

Since the death of Costa, the founder and soul
of the Society " In Arte Libertas," there has
not been the usual reservation of a room for
those artists who paint idea and form. This may
be because they have not exhibited, or perhaps
they are content to mingle their works with those
of other Roman or international societies.

Besides the exhibition of Morelli's works we
have had a collection of landscapes by Alessandro
Castelli (1809—1902), a painter famous in his day,
and always interesting for the sincerity of his work,
and for certain effects of light and storm. From
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