International studio (45.1912)

THE STUDIO

A GREAT FRENCH LANDSCAPE
PAINTER: JEAN CHARLES
CAZIN. BY HENRI FRANTZ.
So far as the French School is concerned the
nineteenth century stands out pre-eminently as the
century of landscape painting. When we com-
mence to study, whether in our galleries, in books,
or in engravings, the history of French painting
during the past century, at once on all sides the
names and the works of the great landscapists are
forced upon our notice. First of all it is members
of that magnificent school of 1830, so popular at
present in Great Britain and of which England is
the possessor, as recent exhibitions have proved
to us, in her private as well as in her public collec-
tions, of so many fine and splendid examples.
The formulas and traditions of art as evolved

by Corot, Daubigny, Troyon, and Millet continued
throughout the entire nineteenth century. Francais,
who died a few years ago, and Harpignies, the
doyen of painting in France, are the last great
adherents of this school.
But while the artistic movement started by the
Barbizon men of 1830 was continuing its progress
and its influence, there arose, shortly after the
Franco-German War, that school of Impressionist
painting which has had so profound an effect upon
the art of the entire world. But while Impres-
sionism was flourishing and was at its artistic
zenith, it must not be forgotten that there still
remained many other artists of independent spirit
who continued to paint landscape according
to their own personal ideal, though not without
submitting in some measure, especially as regards
their technique, to the influence of the new creed


“ I-E MARAIS DANS LE NORD ” (1S97)
XLV. No. 177.—November 1911.

by j. c. CAZIN