International studio (25.1905)

"AN OLD ALLEY" BY G. LE MAINS

with a particularly seductive understanding of
modern womankind.

It would seem that this year's exhibition of
the " Orientalistes" is not quite so attractive
as those of past years. The fault rests perhaps
rather with the public than with the artists.
In fact, so far as the East is concerned, explora-
tion in more than one sense has robbed it of
all its mystery. At the same time one is always
glad to see anything by Levy-Dhurmer, Dinet,
and Dagnac-Riviere. The chief attraction is the
collection of pictures by Charles Cottet. Most
of his forty scenes of Upper Egypt are more or
less old, but from Spain he has brought twenty-
eight pictures full of strong interest and in
technique bold and broad.

At the Galerie des Artistes Modernes one has
been glad to see a set of pictures—chiefly land-
scapes and sea-pieces—by M. Pierre Waidmann,
a restrained and conscientious artist who has but
lately—it would seem—come into full possession
of his gifts.
The annual exhibition of water-colourists

effectual tenacity of her will and the quality
of her character; Italian in the graceful agility
of her wit, her ready and vivid sensitiveness,
her brilliancy of fancy. She was a woman
in the finest and highest sense of the word, and
knew how to meet misfortune with a smiling
face." R. P.
n ^ARIS.—The "Intimistes" have suc-
) ^ ceeded in bringing together in the
g Graves Gallery, Rue Caumartin, a
charming and fascinating collection
of works—an which might have been
fostered by the shades of Chardin and Ostade.
Gifts of diverse orders herein manifest them-
selves with equal parity of inspiration. Morisset,
with his delicate sentiment; Prinet, who has the
faculty of revealing the very heart of things;
Andre Bourgeois, with a pleasing <zn
; Laprade, who, with no little success,
is now essaying something other than flower
painting; Martel, the sturdy painter of rustic
interiors, and—on a plane of their own —
Belleroche, represented by eight pictures of the
highest order, and Caro-Delvaille, both endowed


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