International studio (23.1904)

A House at Southbourne


ings, like those of the
Clouets, are intensely in-
teresting from an icono-
graphical standpoint, for
they reproduce for us,
with apparent veracity
and in the attractive attire
of the period, many
known to have played im-
portant parts in those
days. Jean Decourt,
Quesnel, Pierre Moustier,
are all followers in the
school of the Clouets, a
school which has not lost its
attraction even at this day.
Louise M. Richter.


bequeathed by him at his death to his nephew
Benjamin Foulon. They thus acquire a sure claim
to authenticity, and are considered amongst the
rarest and most precious examples of French
sixteenth-century art. Among these perhaps the
most attractive is the likeness of Mary Stuart,
executed at the time when for so brief a period
she was Queen of France. It is interesting
to compare this drawing with another sketch at
Chantilly, wherein Frangois Clouet again repro-
duced her fair features,
wearing a widow’s cap.
By Francois Clouet also
is the portrait in oils of
Elisabeth of Austria,
wife of Charles IX.,
in the Louvre. There is
a replica of this, which
must rank as one of his
finest achievements, at
Chantilly. Corneille de
Lyon, a contemporary of
the Clouets, is also repre-
sented here by a number
of works. He seems to
have been as a painter a
favourite of Catherine de
Medicis, whose likeness,
now at Chantilly (Galerie
du Logis), he has handed
down to us in an excel-
lent drawing, probably
executed at the time when
she passed through Lyons
as Dauphine of France.
His pictures and draw-

AMODERN HOUSE AT SOUTH-
BOURNE. BY P. H. EMERSON.
Having lived for years in furnished and
unfurnished houses, at last an opportunity came
for the purchase of a small property and settling
down. But after travelling miles upon miles, and
spending pounds upon pounds, I found I was no
nearer the accomplishment of my wishes, though I
had added to my knowledge of the wiles of the

FOXWOLD,” SOUTHBOURNE

G. H. BREVVERTON, ARCHITECT
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