International studio (36.1908/1909(1909))

CARVEDFRIEZE /Vn'D BYREAHER-DUMAS

this little Saion comes very near being one of the best
and most " live " exhibitions in Paris. No one can
deny that humorous drawings, equaiiy with carica-
tures, are being executed with success by a large
number of taiented artists, and it is no news to our
readers, even those in the more remote piaces,
that such men as Forain, Caran d'Ache, Wiiiette,
Leandre, Faivre, Jeanniot, are among the artists of
whom this country is most justiy proud. They
were, moreover, represented by some most excei-
ient work exhibited and very happiiy arranged in
the Haii of the Paiais de Giace by M. Valmy-
Baysse, the energetic secretary of the society.

But it is not in this that
the noveity of the Exhi-
bition lay, but rather in
the interesting retrospec-
tive section, which was
the feature of this year's
show, and which has been
undoubtediy of consider-
abie educational value to
the French public.

This retrospective sec-
tion comprised a hrst-rate collection of the works
of English humorists of the 18th century, from
Hogarth to Leech. Furthermore, one had an
opportunity of making acquaintance with the
little-known work of artists like Birch, Bretherton,
Woodward, Wigstead, Bunbury, Collett, Cruik-
shank, Gillray, Dunthorne, Heath, Hogarth,
HoIIand, de Loutherbourg, Morland and Rowland-
son, to whose eccentric talent about three hundred
works bore ample witness. AIso of primary
intetest, like these, was a series of lithographs
executed during his early years, from 1845-
1852, by Gustave Dorti, and which most wittily


"THE AERONAUT" (M. SANTOS-DUMONT)
BY P. GAIRAUD

"MONSIEUR LE PRESIDENT" (M. FALLI&RES)
CS'a.Va /TzwJ BY P. GAIRAUD

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