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Nr. 193 (März 1913)
DOI Artikel:In the galleries
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In the Galleries
Courtesy of the Fischer Galleries
PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG LADY
BY VIGEE LE BRUN
(LOUISE, ELIZABETH)
at
in
Pesne, Pater, Drouais and Van Loo are all well
represented.
it is a long decorative panel of great attrac-
tion. No one can doubt when looking round
the tastefully arranged rooms at the many
charming pictures and sketches in every
medium that Robert Blum was an artist to
the finger tips, and his untimely end has been
a great blow to his many friends and to the art
that he so manfully upheld in the face of much
suffering. Had he lived the generally allotted
span there is no telling to what heights he
would have climbed.
At the Fischer Galleries there has been an
exhibition of eighteenth-century French paint-
ing. Mr. Fischer has certainly gotten to-
gether some gems, to wit, a Courtship, by
Watteau, and a Fragonard, a Nattier, two
paintings by Vigee le Brun—-the Comtesse de
Fries as Sappho, also a three-quarter length
portrait of a young girl, which we reproduce—-
two delightful cherubs by Eisen, two frescoes
by Boucher, representing painting and archi-
tecture; a pair of exquisite genre pictures by
Longhi—Madame, half dressed, lounging on
her bed, being waited upon by two very at-
tractive handmaidens, while Monsieur, also in
demi-toilette, reads the paper, though he keeps
one eye for the nearer Abigail. In the pend-
ant Monsieur, by this time tire d quatre
epingles, is paying homage to a humble girl
her distaff, while starch propriety is present
the person of the grandmother. Antoine
A Geisha Making Up and the Geisha in green,
peeping with bold eyes over her fan are gems;
where he has depicted partly nude figures his
success with the difficult flesh tones is notable, and
his draughtsmanship beyond
all criticism.
Of the oil paintings the
piece de resistance is unques¬
tionably the flower vendor
where the coolie is painted
crouching on his heels, in
true oriental repose, be¬
tween his baskets of chry¬
santhemums; the freshness
of the coloring and group¬
ing of the vendor and his
possible clients is admirably
done. Another good exam¬
ple is the silk merchant who
stands with his back to the
spectator while two graceful
little Japanese women are
examining his wares, the
sunlit street is suggested
through the hanging silks,
Awarded the Silver Medal at the National Arts Club Members' Exhibition
WINTER LANDSCAPE BY GIFFORD BEAL
XXVI
Courtesy of the Fischer Galleries
PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG LADY
BY VIGEE LE BRUN
(LOUISE, ELIZABETH)
at
in
Pesne, Pater, Drouais and Van Loo are all well
represented.
it is a long decorative panel of great attrac-
tion. No one can doubt when looking round
the tastefully arranged rooms at the many
charming pictures and sketches in every
medium that Robert Blum was an artist to
the finger tips, and his untimely end has been
a great blow to his many friends and to the art
that he so manfully upheld in the face of much
suffering. Had he lived the generally allotted
span there is no telling to what heights he
would have climbed.
At the Fischer Galleries there has been an
exhibition of eighteenth-century French paint-
ing. Mr. Fischer has certainly gotten to-
gether some gems, to wit, a Courtship, by
Watteau, and a Fragonard, a Nattier, two
paintings by Vigee le Brun—-the Comtesse de
Fries as Sappho, also a three-quarter length
portrait of a young girl, which we reproduce—-
two delightful cherubs by Eisen, two frescoes
by Boucher, representing painting and archi-
tecture; a pair of exquisite genre pictures by
Longhi—Madame, half dressed, lounging on
her bed, being waited upon by two very at-
tractive handmaidens, while Monsieur, also in
demi-toilette, reads the paper, though he keeps
one eye for the nearer Abigail. In the pend-
ant Monsieur, by this time tire d quatre
epingles, is paying homage to a humble girl
her distaff, while starch propriety is present
the person of the grandmother. Antoine
A Geisha Making Up and the Geisha in green,
peeping with bold eyes over her fan are gems;
where he has depicted partly nude figures his
success with the difficult flesh tones is notable, and
his draughtsmanship beyond
all criticism.
Of the oil paintings the
piece de resistance is unques¬
tionably the flower vendor
where the coolie is painted
crouching on his heels, in
true oriental repose, be¬
tween his baskets of chry¬
santhemums; the freshness
of the coloring and group¬
ing of the vendor and his
possible clients is admirably
done. Another good exam¬
ple is the silk merchant who
stands with his back to the
spectator while two graceful
little Japanese women are
examining his wares, the
sunlit street is suggested
through the hanging silks,
Awarded the Silver Medal at the National Arts Club Members' Exhibition
WINTER LANDSCAPE BY GIFFORD BEAL
XXVI