DOI Heft:
No. 49 (April, 1897)
DOI Heft:Studio-talk
DOI Artikel:Reviews of recent publications
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18388#0212
Reviews of Recent Publications
from a coloured illustration in "jeanne d'arc" (e. 1'lon, nourr1t et cie) hy boutet de monvei,
Boutet de Monvel has expended on his charming the illustrations for M. Ferdinand Fabre's Xavtire,
series of water-colours could hardly have been more one found the same delicacy and refinement of
profitably employed. Eacli of the pictures in this treatment, the same truthfulness, the same erudition
album is a careful reproduction in colours of the which underlies the whole of his art. Truly, this
original painting, and is accompanied by an ex- filktte des champs, with the straight hair, the petti-
planatory text, the volume thus forming a complete coat made of coarse cloth, the woollen shoes of the
history of the life of Joan. earlier pictures of the series, must be the real Joan
M. Boutet de Monvel's original paintings have of Arc—the child and peasant combined, the pure
been on view at the Cercle de l'Union Artistique in daughter of peasant parents accepting her mission
the Rue Boissy dAnglas, and have been much ad- with a child's wonder and trustfulness,
mired by frequenters of Paris art exhibitions. As The drawing reproduced here shows the maid at
on the occasion of previous exhibitions of his work, a period of her life previous to entering upon her
such as that series of water-colours which served as arduous mission. It is intended to represent the
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from a coloured illustration in "jeanne d'arc" (e. 1'lon, nourr1t et cie) hy boutet de monvei,
Boutet de Monvel has expended on his charming the illustrations for M. Ferdinand Fabre's Xavtire,
series of water-colours could hardly have been more one found the same delicacy and refinement of
profitably employed. Eacli of the pictures in this treatment, the same truthfulness, the same erudition
album is a careful reproduction in colours of the which underlies the whole of his art. Truly, this
original painting, and is accompanied by an ex- filktte des champs, with the straight hair, the petti-
planatory text, the volume thus forming a complete coat made of coarse cloth, the woollen shoes of the
history of the life of Joan. earlier pictures of the series, must be the real Joan
M. Boutet de Monvel's original paintings have of Arc—the child and peasant combined, the pure
been on view at the Cercle de l'Union Artistique in daughter of peasant parents accepting her mission
the Rue Boissy dAnglas, and have been much ad- with a child's wonder and trustfulness,
mired by frequenters of Paris art exhibitions. As The drawing reproduced here shows the maid at
on the occasion of previous exhibitions of his work, a period of her life previous to entering upon her
such as that series of water-colours which served as arduous mission. It is intended to represent the
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