DOI issue:
No. 34 (January, 1896)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17295#0266
special interest this year. The landscapists and portraits of the most delicate simplicity, and bits
seascapists are fully represented, but the absence of of scenery in great variety. Among the Belgian
many figure-painters of note is to be regretted. exhibitors, M. Alexandre is the most prominent.
He sends a tasteful study of the nude, charming in
its effects of light, and several military scenes of
much interest. MM. Colard, Rigaux, and Hannon,
The Photographic Salon, admirably installed in alsQ of Bdgian nationality) exhibit some very suc.
the fine rooms of the Cercle Artistique in Brussels, C£ssful landscapeS; sea-pieces, and portraits. '
is meeting with great success, after having been
eagerly awaited by all amateurs of the photographic _.__
art. Quite recently the question arose in the courts
at Brussels, in the course of a dispute as to some M. Andre Sinet, the Parisian painter, who for
artistic property, as to whether photography was to some time past has been living in London, is ex-
be considered an art. Subsequently the matter hibiting some of his works in Brussels. These
came before the Appeal Court at Aix, and was conscientious pictures are full of varied observation,
decided in the affirmative—a decision which seems In addition to a most characteristic portrait of the
to be strongly enforced by the very interesting ex- Prince de Sagan, are some truthful studies of the
hibition just mentioned. Professionals and ama- country-side, " bits '' from the London parks, and
teurs, both Belgians and foreigners, take part in several little Parisian interiors. Everything in his
the display, and again and again one comes across work is sober and restrained, and marked by a
work full of interest, and executed with the happiest dignity of colour treatment which somewhat recalls
results. The English exhibitors have come in for the manner of the petits maitres of the eighteenth
special attention, notably Mr. J. Craig Annan, who century,
shows a score of really splendid photographs— F. K.
THE CAMP FIRE
FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY M. ALEXANDRE
(EXHIBITED AT THE BRUSSELS PHOTOGRAPHIC SALON)
249
seascapists are fully represented, but the absence of of scenery in great variety. Among the Belgian
many figure-painters of note is to be regretted. exhibitors, M. Alexandre is the most prominent.
He sends a tasteful study of the nude, charming in
its effects of light, and several military scenes of
much interest. MM. Colard, Rigaux, and Hannon,
The Photographic Salon, admirably installed in alsQ of Bdgian nationality) exhibit some very suc.
the fine rooms of the Cercle Artistique in Brussels, C£ssful landscapeS; sea-pieces, and portraits. '
is meeting with great success, after having been
eagerly awaited by all amateurs of the photographic _.__
art. Quite recently the question arose in the courts
at Brussels, in the course of a dispute as to some M. Andre Sinet, the Parisian painter, who for
artistic property, as to whether photography was to some time past has been living in London, is ex-
be considered an art. Subsequently the matter hibiting some of his works in Brussels. These
came before the Appeal Court at Aix, and was conscientious pictures are full of varied observation,
decided in the affirmative—a decision which seems In addition to a most characteristic portrait of the
to be strongly enforced by the very interesting ex- Prince de Sagan, are some truthful studies of the
hibition just mentioned. Professionals and ama- country-side, " bits '' from the London parks, and
teurs, both Belgians and foreigners, take part in several little Parisian interiors. Everything in his
the display, and again and again one comes across work is sober and restrained, and marked by a
work full of interest, and executed with the happiest dignity of colour treatment which somewhat recalls
results. The English exhibitors have come in for the manner of the petits maitres of the eighteenth
special attention, notably Mr. J. Craig Annan, who century,
shows a score of really splendid photographs— F. K.
THE CAMP FIRE
FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY M. ALEXANDRE
(EXHIBITED AT THE BRUSSELS PHOTOGRAPHIC SALON)
249