DOI issue:
No. 49 (April, 1897)
DOI article:Mourey, Gabriel: A decorative modeller: Alexandre Charpentier
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18388#0169
A Decor at roe Modeller
Fille au Violon (page 159) is a remarkable example.
Nothing more simple or more charming can be
imagined than this young girl drawing her bow
EMBOSSED DESIGN BY A. CHARTEXTIER
across the divine instrument. She is sweet inno-
cence itself, the very essence of the pure freshness
of youth, trying her hand at art, and filled with
joyous ecstasy at the melody she is playing.
A like idea is manifest in the series of six plates
in the same process, styled En Zelande, by M.
Charpentier, which has just been published by
the firm of Lemercier. In these half-dozen pic-
tures his object has been to tell the plain and
characteristic story of life in the Walcheren Islands.
His conception is altogether charming, and the
execution curious in the extreme. Using flat
colour, with a little gold here and there, and utilis-
ing the gaufragc, he obtains a richness of effect
somewhat barbaric and primitive but extremely
EMBOSSED DESIGN
BY A. CHARPENTIER
interesting. The picturesque costumes of the
Zealanders, the rough furniture of the country,
the canals fringed with little houses of striking
Fille au Violon (page 159) is a remarkable example.
Nothing more simple or more charming can be
imagined than this young girl drawing her bow
EMBOSSED DESIGN BY A. CHARTEXTIER
across the divine instrument. She is sweet inno-
cence itself, the very essence of the pure freshness
of youth, trying her hand at art, and filled with
joyous ecstasy at the melody she is playing.
A like idea is manifest in the series of six plates
in the same process, styled En Zelande, by M.
Charpentier, which has just been published by
the firm of Lemercier. In these half-dozen pic-
tures his object has been to tell the plain and
characteristic story of life in the Walcheren Islands.
His conception is altogether charming, and the
execution curious in the extreme. Using flat
colour, with a little gold here and there, and utilis-
ing the gaufragc, he obtains a richness of effect
somewhat barbaric and primitive but extremely
EMBOSSED DESIGN
BY A. CHARPENTIER
interesting. The picturesque costumes of the
Zealanders, the rough furniture of the country,
the canals fringed with little houses of striking