Studio: international art (6.1896)

Studio- Talk

late Lord Lieutenant), decorated with flowers and
birds in many colours. As the executants are over
a dozen in number, it will be sufficient to say that
the designer was Mr. M. Morohun. Some em-
broidered panels by Mrs. P. A. Tragnair are also
especially worthy of mention. Impossible as it may
seem, they are quite comparable (though not, of
course, quite equal) to two very fine ones exhibited
in the English branch by Morris & Co., and
designed by Sir E. Burne-Jones.

In several art-crafts Ireland shows itself distinctly
below the level reached in England at the present
moment. The art bookbindings are especially
faulty. Those exhibited by the professional binders
are out of taste in the thickness and forms of the
boards used, and the nature of the " forwarding "
generally, while those shown by an amateur, though
of merit as regards design, are, in some technical
details, not all that could be desired. Wrought
iron is well executed by J. McLoughlin and his
brothers, wood carving very highly represented by
Joseph Long, and fan painting by Miss Ada
Dressier.

In the English section are shown some sheets of
the Kelmscott edition of Chaucer, which naturally
obtain the place of honour among the other produc-
tions of this press. There are also some beautiful
specimens of lustre pottery, designed by W. De
Morgan, and executed by C. and F. Passenger,
J. Hersey, and J. Tuster, which also display mar-
vellous knowledge of the scope of the reproductive
process by which they are made. A tile pattern,
Troy Town, by Halsey Ricordo and F. Passenger,
is also excellent; as is an angel in embroidery
designed by Mr. Wm. Morris, and executed by
Miss May Morris.

Mr. W. B. Richmond exhibits his design for the
east window of St. Paul's ; Mr. Walter Crane and
Mr. Heywood Sumner show two charming designs
for wall paper; and Mr. Louis Davis and Mrs.
Reginald Hallward their original drawings for
Radford's Good Night and My Rose Bush. Two
steel and copper lamps designed by W. A. S.
Benson, and executed by J. Lovegrove, are very
superior, but not more expensive, examples of the
sort of lamp that is so much in vogue just at
present. I have no space to do more than men-

tion the third section of the exhibition—that
devoted to art work in the past. The most notable
contents of this portion are some fine examples of
genuine Chippendale bureaux, chairs, and other
beautiful things lent by Lord Iveagh.

PARIS.—The exhibition of the work of
the painter Jeanniot has been on view
for several days at Durand-RuePs. The
virtuosity and adaptability of this artist
are well known. In turns landscapist,
illustrator, portrait-painter, narrator of military
anecdotes, chronicler of manners, and caricaturist,
he has within him all the resources of his person-
ality, and draws upon them with the happiest
results. Moreover, he is quite without pretension,
and this is no small virtue in these days when the
most insignificant dauber fancies his merest sketch
a masterpiece. In M. Jeanniot's work one cannot
but recognise the conscientiousness and artistry of
all he does, as well as his excellent taste and tech-
nical skill. His landscapes please me particularly,
for they are full of a delicate and poetic melancholy.
His eye has a fine perception of the aspect of
things, and therefrom he composes the most rhyth-
mical harmonies of colour. Then, again, in cer-
tain of his studies of modern life he has known
how to repress himself, and by a timely reticence
to avoid all coarseness. A nature at once some-
what complex and attractive.

Thanks to the initiative of M. Roger Marx, we
are to have a new coinage in France, and none too
soon. The Third Republic adopted the models
of the Revolution and the Republic of 1848, pro-
duced by Dupre and Oudine. Now we want
something new, something which may better
express the modern republican spirit. I may
say at once that the artists who have been com-
missioned to engrave the models will have no light
task if they attempt to portray in a few significant
touches this sentiment to which I have referred.
But do not let us stray from the main question.

Three engravers of great ability have been en-
trusted with the work : M. Chaplain for the gold
coins, M. Roty for the silver, and M. Daniel
Dupuis for the bronze. The selection is most
happy. The cases in the Luxembourg Museum,
wherein the productions of the three artists may
be seen, are sufficient to inspire confidence in the
result of the undertaking. We may be sure the

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