DOI Heft:
Nr. 46 (January 1897)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17298#0305
Studio-Talk
' A MOONLIGHT NIGHT FROM A TAINTING BY CHARLES COTTET
be described as unimportant. It includes, indeed, Isles, and were to be considered as providing
quite adequate examples of fourteen artists whose rather a scenic summary than a series of illustra-
pictures are with justice regarded as the chief tions of any particular district. They were not
glories of the British school. Gainsborough's Lady without merits, but these merits were entirely those
Sheffield and Lady Eden, Turner's Approach to to which the artist has accustomed us in previous
Venice and Mortlake Terrace, Reynolds' Duchess exhibitions.
of Marlborough, Bonington's The Grand Canal,
Constable's Salisbury Cathedral, and Hogarth's _—^ ARIS.—The fourteenth exhibition of the
Peg Woffington, are perhaps the best things in a J Socit^ Internationale de Peinture et
remarkable exhibition. I"^^ de Sculpture at George Petit's galleries
contains, among a good deal of un-
Mr. Sutton Palmer's water-colour drawings of A interesting work, several productions
" The Highlands and Lowlands," collected in the worthy 0f notice; but taken all round the quality
Galleries of the Fine Art Society, presented the usual of the canvases displayed is distinctly less meri-
qualities of attractive colour and mechanically torious than the energy bestowed upon the show
facile handling which are never absent from his by lhe president of the Society, M. P. Carrier-
work. He paints obviously for popularity, which Be]ieuse.
is certainly never denied to him ; and his produc- -
tions have the particular manner which appeals to
the widest section of the public. These drawings M. Fritz Thaulow, in his three pictures, Vieille
had been executed in various parts of the British Chaumicre, Le Chataignier, and Vieille Fabrique an
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' A MOONLIGHT NIGHT FROM A TAINTING BY CHARLES COTTET
be described as unimportant. It includes, indeed, Isles, and were to be considered as providing
quite adequate examples of fourteen artists whose rather a scenic summary than a series of illustra-
pictures are with justice regarded as the chief tions of any particular district. They were not
glories of the British school. Gainsborough's Lady without merits, but these merits were entirely those
Sheffield and Lady Eden, Turner's Approach to to which the artist has accustomed us in previous
Venice and Mortlake Terrace, Reynolds' Duchess exhibitions.
of Marlborough, Bonington's The Grand Canal,
Constable's Salisbury Cathedral, and Hogarth's _—^ ARIS.—The fourteenth exhibition of the
Peg Woffington, are perhaps the best things in a J Socit^ Internationale de Peinture et
remarkable exhibition. I"^^ de Sculpture at George Petit's galleries
contains, among a good deal of un-
Mr. Sutton Palmer's water-colour drawings of A interesting work, several productions
" The Highlands and Lowlands," collected in the worthy 0f notice; but taken all round the quality
Galleries of the Fine Art Society, presented the usual of the canvases displayed is distinctly less meri-
qualities of attractive colour and mechanically torious than the energy bestowed upon the show
facile handling which are never absent from his by lhe president of the Society, M. P. Carrier-
work. He paints obviously for popularity, which Be]ieuse.
is certainly never denied to him ; and his produc- -
tions have the particular manner which appeals to
the widest section of the public. These drawings M. Fritz Thaulow, in his three pictures, Vieille
had been executed in various parts of the British Chaumicre, Le Chataignier, and Vieille Fabrique an
289