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Nr. 164 (October, 1910)
DOI Artikel:Honoré, Léopold: Alfred Philippe Roll, painter and sculptor
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19867#0365
Alfred Philippe Roll
officer in the militia, he went to fight for his country the best things M. Roll has signed, together with
against the invader. The sombre fortunes of those of Jules Simon, of Alexandre Dumas, of
those dark and disgraceful days in our national Rochefort, of the landscapist Damoye, of M.
history have been transcribed by M. Roll in a Alphand, of Antonin Proust, Coquelin cadet,
page of realism no less terrible {La Guerre; President Carnot, M. Failures, of the painters
Musee de Luxembourg.) But he is by no means Coutourier and Alfred Smith. And in his studio
the preacher of despair, for has he not also given us hangs one which the master has painted of himself,
his Halte-ld I in the Musee at Mayenne, a gallant Among works of very diverse character I must
work full of cheerfulness and incomparable bravery ? not fail to mention his Bacchante of the Salon of
What can I say now about Roll's portraits? 1873; Don Juan and Hay dee (Musee dAvignon) ;
They are of an execution as powerful as they are La Fete de Sil'ene, in the Art Gallery of Ghent, Le
robust and vigorous, and exceedingly eloquent in G0titer; Alsacienne et Lorraine (Musee de Nimes);
the physiognomical expression, and they are La Chasseresse, which hangs in one of the rooms
furthermore the work of a finished artist and above of the French Embassy at Constantinople; Carnot
all of a psychologist. One remembers the portrait, et les Plans de la Sorbonne; some seascapes, also
a veritable masterpiece, of the painter's mother, and La Malade, a picture which moves us by its
those of Mme. A. Roll, of Mme. Guignard, Jane simplicity; landscapes executed in Corsica; Le
Hading, the painter Thaulow and his wife, of Recit, which shows us a glade in the Forest of
Admiral K?-anlz, portraits which will remain among Fontainebleau, which the artist has made the
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officer in the militia, he went to fight for his country the best things M. Roll has signed, together with
against the invader. The sombre fortunes of those of Jules Simon, of Alexandre Dumas, of
those dark and disgraceful days in our national Rochefort, of the landscapist Damoye, of M.
history have been transcribed by M. Roll in a Alphand, of Antonin Proust, Coquelin cadet,
page of realism no less terrible {La Guerre; President Carnot, M. Failures, of the painters
Musee de Luxembourg.) But he is by no means Coutourier and Alfred Smith. And in his studio
the preacher of despair, for has he not also given us hangs one which the master has painted of himself,
his Halte-ld I in the Musee at Mayenne, a gallant Among works of very diverse character I must
work full of cheerfulness and incomparable bravery ? not fail to mention his Bacchante of the Salon of
What can I say now about Roll's portraits? 1873; Don Juan and Hay dee (Musee dAvignon) ;
They are of an execution as powerful as they are La Fete de Sil'ene, in the Art Gallery of Ghent, Le
robust and vigorous, and exceedingly eloquent in G0titer; Alsacienne et Lorraine (Musee de Nimes);
the physiognomical expression, and they are La Chasseresse, which hangs in one of the rooms
furthermore the work of a finished artist and above of the French Embassy at Constantinople; Carnot
all of a psychologist. One remembers the portrait, et les Plans de la Sorbonne; some seascapes, also
a veritable masterpiece, of the painter's mother, and La Malade, a picture which moves us by its
those of Mme. A. Roll, of Mme. Guignard, Jane simplicity; landscapes executed in Corsica; Le
Hading, the painter Thaulow and his wife, of Recit, which shows us a glade in the Forest of
Admiral K?-anlz, portraits which will remain among Fontainebleau, which the artist has made the
"LE SOMMEIL " BV ALFRED PHILIPPE ROLL
264