DOI Heft:
Nr. 161 (July, 1910)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19867#0088
Studio-Talk
GOBLET IN OLD SILVER REPOUSSE
BY PROF. ERNST RIEGEL
Musee des Arts Decoratifs, and although they lack
the magic colour of Besnard's finished work, they
do not appear any the less finished or complete.
One saw at the same time the Sacre-Cceur, a
cartoon for a decoration in the same chapel, and
some water-colour sketches for the Stations of the
Cross, which were of equal importance.
I must mention a very important exhibition of
work by an Englishwoman, Madame Romaine
Brooks, in the Durand-Ruel Galleries. This talented
lady shows in her work the influence of Whistler
and of Manet. She has decided taste for sweet
and tender harmonies, which give her palette great
subtlety. All her painting is delicate and refined,
and her portraits, such, for instance, as the Fcmmc
d la Toque noire or the Jaquctte rouge, are decidedly
works of the first rank.
The painter Eugene Chigot lately gathered
together in the Dewambez Galleries a certain
number of his recent landscapes. Chigot, whose
works we have seen at the Salon d'Automne,
at the Artistes Francais, and in various smaller
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exhibitions, is a landscapist who deserves, in my
opinion, a veiy prominent place in the evolution of
French painting. He is a native of Valenciennes,
that home of painters, and coming therefore from
Flanders, is no colourist. He has, nevertheless, a
very deep comprehension of nature, and one feels
that he loves sincerely and ardently the charming
landscapes, the profusion of flowers, the gardens in
spring-time, and those mysterious pools overgrown
with flowers that figure in his pictures. Chigot is
furthermore a past master of the art of painting
water, and since Thaulow I have come across no
one who renders so well as he does its charm and
transparency. The artist does not specialise in
any one direction; he grouped his landscapes in
two or three series, giving them such names as
Flews, Forcts, Chateaux, and they are all alike in
being large and sincere visions of nature. H. F.
COCOA-NUT CUP WITH SILVER AND GILT
MOUNTS, STUDDED WITH TOPAZES
1!Y PROF. ERNST RIEGEL
GOBLET IN OLD SILVER REPOUSSE
BY PROF. ERNST RIEGEL
Musee des Arts Decoratifs, and although they lack
the magic colour of Besnard's finished work, they
do not appear any the less finished or complete.
One saw at the same time the Sacre-Cceur, a
cartoon for a decoration in the same chapel, and
some water-colour sketches for the Stations of the
Cross, which were of equal importance.
I must mention a very important exhibition of
work by an Englishwoman, Madame Romaine
Brooks, in the Durand-Ruel Galleries. This talented
lady shows in her work the influence of Whistler
and of Manet. She has decided taste for sweet
and tender harmonies, which give her palette great
subtlety. All her painting is delicate and refined,
and her portraits, such, for instance, as the Fcmmc
d la Toque noire or the Jaquctte rouge, are decidedly
works of the first rank.
The painter Eugene Chigot lately gathered
together in the Dewambez Galleries a certain
number of his recent landscapes. Chigot, whose
works we have seen at the Salon d'Automne,
at the Artistes Francais, and in various smaller
64
exhibitions, is a landscapist who deserves, in my
opinion, a veiy prominent place in the evolution of
French painting. He is a native of Valenciennes,
that home of painters, and coming therefore from
Flanders, is no colourist. He has, nevertheless, a
very deep comprehension of nature, and one feels
that he loves sincerely and ardently the charming
landscapes, the profusion of flowers, the gardens in
spring-time, and those mysterious pools overgrown
with flowers that figure in his pictures. Chigot is
furthermore a past master of the art of painting
water, and since Thaulow I have come across no
one who renders so well as he does its charm and
transparency. The artist does not specialise in
any one direction; he grouped his landscapes in
two or three series, giving them such names as
Flews, Forcts, Chateaux, and they are all alike in
being large and sincere visions of nature. H. F.
COCOA-NUT CUP WITH SILVER AND GILT
MOUNTS, STUDDED WITH TOPAZES
1!Y PROF. ERNST RIEGEL