DOI issue:
No. 89 (July, 1904)
DOI article:The Salon of the Société nationale des beaux-arts.
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26962#0025
The Society Nationale des Beaux-Arts
PORTRAIT OF M \DAME S. AND HER SON
BY F. H. MORISSET
would have been even better if the jury had re-
frained from admitting so many mediocre studies,
and if certain artists whose day is past, or whose
work is not suitable for a general exhibition, had
refrained from taking part in the present show.
One of the most delightful surprises of this Salon
is to meet once more with the beautiful w'ork of
Eugene Carriere, who did not exhibit last year.
His four pictures prove that there is no falling off
in his mastery of the technique he has made
peculiarly his own. His harmonies in grey are as
full of delicately subtle effects as of yore. The
wonderful modelling of the features, the life-like
expression of the eyes, the simple effectiveness of
the gestures of those who sat to him, are as remark-
able as in any of his previous exhibits.
Another painter whose individuality is as marked
as that of Carriere himself, and who, like him, is
one of the strongest men represented at the Salon,
is Besnard, who contributes tw'o works only, both
painted some time ago, which display the same
mastery of colour as is so noticeable in his more
recent paintings. The Portrait of H.R.H. the late
Princess Mathilde is no less than ten years old, but
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PORTRAIT OF M \DAME S. AND HER SON
BY F. H. MORISSET
would have been even better if the jury had re-
frained from admitting so many mediocre studies,
and if certain artists whose day is past, or whose
work is not suitable for a general exhibition, had
refrained from taking part in the present show.
One of the most delightful surprises of this Salon
is to meet once more with the beautiful w'ork of
Eugene Carriere, who did not exhibit last year.
His four pictures prove that there is no falling off
in his mastery of the technique he has made
peculiarly his own. His harmonies in grey are as
full of delicately subtle effects as of yore. The
wonderful modelling of the features, the life-like
expression of the eyes, the simple effectiveness of
the gestures of those who sat to him, are as remark-
able as in any of his previous exhibits.
Another painter whose individuality is as marked
as that of Carriere himself, and who, like him, is
one of the strongest men represented at the Salon,
is Besnard, who contributes tw'o works only, both
painted some time ago, which display the same
mastery of colour as is so noticeable in his more
recent paintings. The Portrait of H.R.H. the late
Princess Mathilde is no less than ten years old, but
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