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same compliment I would also pay to Mme Souvet-
Magron, by whom we had a beautifu) etching of
the Portal of St. GHles, and also to M. Georges le
Meilteure. M. Francois Simon, whose work has
been often reproduced in THE STUDio, is as dis-
tinguished in his etchings in biack as in those he
does in coiours. Among the foreign artists I noted
works by M. Carl Larsson and M. Evert van
Muyden. _
M. Bernheim, Junior, has arranged in his deiight-
ful gallery in the Rue Richepanse an Exhibition of
paintings by Vuillard—an artist whose work one is
always interested in seeing, for besides being gifted
with a delicate and charming vision, he gives us
seductive colour harmonies and compositions which
are always graceful. Certain of Vuillard's later
works would gain, in my opinion, by being carried
to a rather greater degree of hnish; nevertheless
one is compelled to admit that this untrammeMed
and sincere art is a welcome relief after the many
artifrcial and conventional works which encumber
our exhibitions, and M. Bernheim is to be com-
mended for attaching himself to this artist, one of
the foremost and most original of his generation.

Madame Aguttes, an exhibitor at the Salon
d'Automne, has gathered together at Petit's Gallery
a number of small water-colour drawings which
are not always very original impressions, and in
which I trnd often a reminiscence of some one
else's work. One must not deny, however, that
this artist has undoubted ability.

M. Lucien Monod, besides being a specialist in
portraits executed in three coloured crayons, has
just completed several remarkable lithographs in
colours. His work in this medium is frrm, and the
studies of heads remind one of certain works of
Boucher and the engravers of the eighteenth
century. _
An exhibition of French artists at Montreal is
in process of being organised. MM. Rodin and
Besnard are at the head of the Committee.

At the exhibition of the SocMte Internationale
des Aquarellistes, M. Maurice Guillemot, the
President of this interesting association, had the
idea of doing homage to Hervier by organising a
special exhibition of his work. Nothing could have
been more praiseworthy, for Hervier, who died
obscurely in 187$, was one of the masters of water-
colour in the nineteenth century.

Though in his lifetime Hervier failed to win
success among collectors and dealers, and though
his works were not acquired by our art galleries,
as was the case with those of many of his con-
temporaries, this charming artist yet had his
admirers, both famous and far-seeing, who, so
far as he was concerned, were simply crying in
the wilderness. Thus, the Goncourts often dis-
cussed him in their raZyw, and on the appearance
of an album of his lithographs they devoted to the
artist the following lines, which, in their nervous
style, well describe Hervier's manner : " A wealth


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