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Frantz, Henri: The old and new salons in Paris
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43450#0116
The Old and New Salons, Paris
pictures, visions essentially Spanish in feeling, a
synthesis as it were of the national life, taking the
form of three works of similar tonality and similar
sentiment. The Descentfrom the Cross, or Christ du
Sang as it is called, shows the Saviour all bleeding,
and surrounded by characteristic types of old
Spain. In the Victime de la Fete, which is perhaps
the most characteristic of the three works, we see an
old horse exhausted by his efforts in the bull-ring
bearing an aged picador, himself worn out and
weary, across the mountains to his native village;
and finally the third painting, Mon Oncle Daniel et
sa Famille, depicts a charming and typical series of
portraits grouped in the open air round a painter.
The other Spaniard, M. Sert, achieved success
with his huge ceiling painted for a private mansion,
and depicting the nuptials of Amor and Psyche.
Here he revealed one of the finest gifts for decora-
tion on a large scale which it has been given to us
to see for a long time. We must not leave the
triumphant Spanish School this year without a
mention of the beautiful landscapes of M. S.
Rusinol, the Basque types of Valentin de Zubiaurre,
and the excellent picture by M. Vilay Prades, Canto
gitano, executed with great spirit, and containing
some first-rate passages of paint.
Let us come now to the works by the mem-
bers of the French School. There was among
them this year no startling revelation, but the level
of the exhibition was throughout excellent, and
among the young men several first-rate indivi-
dualities are to be noted, such as M. Gumery,
who signed a very important canvas, Les Coulisses de
la Plaza, a realistic work of great power, and also
a very pretty portrait of a young girl; Mr. Fox, an
English artist, who achieved a great success among
amateurs and artists with his Le The, a work well
composed and of pleasing technique ; M. William
Malherbe, who employed colour with infinite vigour
and sympathy in his Portrait de Gaby Delys; and
M. Ablett, who showed an excellent portrait in an
interior painted with a very right appreciation of
values. M. Michel Cazin, who attaches himself in
some measure to the traditions of his father, the
great Jean Charles Cazin, at the same time gives
evidence of a personal vision. His two Flemish
landscapes denoted an extremely delicate sensibility
to the atmosphere and nature of the North.
“ALGER LA BLANCHE”
IO4
(Artistes FrancaisJ
BY L. CAUVY
pictures, visions essentially Spanish in feeling, a
synthesis as it were of the national life, taking the
form of three works of similar tonality and similar
sentiment. The Descentfrom the Cross, or Christ du
Sang as it is called, shows the Saviour all bleeding,
and surrounded by characteristic types of old
Spain. In the Victime de la Fete, which is perhaps
the most characteristic of the three works, we see an
old horse exhausted by his efforts in the bull-ring
bearing an aged picador, himself worn out and
weary, across the mountains to his native village;
and finally the third painting, Mon Oncle Daniel et
sa Famille, depicts a charming and typical series of
portraits grouped in the open air round a painter.
The other Spaniard, M. Sert, achieved success
with his huge ceiling painted for a private mansion,
and depicting the nuptials of Amor and Psyche.
Here he revealed one of the finest gifts for decora-
tion on a large scale which it has been given to us
to see for a long time. We must not leave the
triumphant Spanish School this year without a
mention of the beautiful landscapes of M. S.
Rusinol, the Basque types of Valentin de Zubiaurre,
and the excellent picture by M. Vilay Prades, Canto
gitano, executed with great spirit, and containing
some first-rate passages of paint.
Let us come now to the works by the mem-
bers of the French School. There was among
them this year no startling revelation, but the level
of the exhibition was throughout excellent, and
among the young men several first-rate indivi-
dualities are to be noted, such as M. Gumery,
who signed a very important canvas, Les Coulisses de
la Plaza, a realistic work of great power, and also
a very pretty portrait of a young girl; Mr. Fox, an
English artist, who achieved a great success among
amateurs and artists with his Le The, a work well
composed and of pleasing technique ; M. William
Malherbe, who employed colour with infinite vigour
and sympathy in his Portrait de Gaby Delys; and
M. Ablett, who showed an excellent portrait in an
interior painted with a very right appreciation of
values. M. Michel Cazin, who attaches himself in
some measure to the traditions of his father, the
great Jean Charles Cazin, at the same time gives
evidence of a personal vision. His two Flemish
landscapes denoted an extremely delicate sensibility
to the atmosphere and nature of the North.
“ALGER LA BLANCHE”
IO4
(Artistes FrancaisJ
BY L. CAUVY