DOI issue:
No. 53 (August, 1897)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18389#0224
Studio- Talk
which seven have already been completed. They
are of high artistic merit, and represent various
aspects of Nature—mountain and river, sea and
stream with the sincerity of vision, the originality
of execution, and the masterly workmanship which
have won for Riviere the remarkable position he
holds among the French artists of the day.
So far as the effects are concerned nothing more
perfect can be imagined. Coloured lithography has
never produced results so entirely satisfying. These
plates, which are real works of art, will mark one
of the most brilliant stages in the artist's career,
CARTOON I-OR A MOSAIC FRIEZE
and they will also reflect the highest credit upon
the printer who has had the heavy responsibility of
producing them. (;. M.
DRESDEN.—The Government has
provided a number of first and
second class gold medals to be
awarded at the art exhibition here.
The medals will have the shape of
plaquettes, and are from designs by the Dresden
sculptor, Hartmann McLean. The first class
medal that has fallen to the British section was
awarded to William Strang, for his beautiful paint-
ing of Bathing Women.
The Government purchases for the different
Royal collections at Dresden have been quite
numerous. The best are those for the Albertinum
(which is the museum for sculpture), and this,
because the sculpture exhibits are decidedly in
advance of everything else at the show. Among
the acquisitions are half-a-dozen reliefs and bronzes
by the Belgian, Constantin Meunier, whose works
fill a whole room and constitute one of the
principal attractions of the show. Then there are
some delightful metal door panels by Bayes, and a
case of magnificent portrait-medals by Alphonse
Legros. A relief by Frampton is the only other
English work bought.
Director Treu, of the Albertinum, is empowered
to make all his purchases alone. The director of
the picture gallery is not in the same fortunate
position, for he has to submit all works that he
wishes to buy to the approval of a committee.
There are, in fact, two committees, one of which is
appointed by the Government and buys pictures
by foreign artists. I do not think that all their
acquisitions have been very happy ones this year,
but a painting by Austen Brown, and a pastel by
C. Meunier, must certainly be welcomed.
Pictures by German artists are purchased from
the income derived from the Proll-Heuer bequest.
The testator has enjoined that they should be
selected by a committee made up of about a dozen
members, most of whom are professors at the Art
Academy. It seems at times as if they were all
of different opinions and tastes, and that each
member's will prevailed in turn. For if some oi
the paintings that they buy are good, then others
must surely be called bad; nobody can sanction
them all. Among the most desirable additions to
our gallery, there are canvases by W. Ritter,
199
which seven have already been completed. They
are of high artistic merit, and represent various
aspects of Nature—mountain and river, sea and
stream with the sincerity of vision, the originality
of execution, and the masterly workmanship which
have won for Riviere the remarkable position he
holds among the French artists of the day.
So far as the effects are concerned nothing more
perfect can be imagined. Coloured lithography has
never produced results so entirely satisfying. These
plates, which are real works of art, will mark one
of the most brilliant stages in the artist's career,
CARTOON I-OR A MOSAIC FRIEZE
and they will also reflect the highest credit upon
the printer who has had the heavy responsibility of
producing them. (;. M.
DRESDEN.—The Government has
provided a number of first and
second class gold medals to be
awarded at the art exhibition here.
The medals will have the shape of
plaquettes, and are from designs by the Dresden
sculptor, Hartmann McLean. The first class
medal that has fallen to the British section was
awarded to William Strang, for his beautiful paint-
ing of Bathing Women.
The Government purchases for the different
Royal collections at Dresden have been quite
numerous. The best are those for the Albertinum
(which is the museum for sculpture), and this,
because the sculpture exhibits are decidedly in
advance of everything else at the show. Among
the acquisitions are half-a-dozen reliefs and bronzes
by the Belgian, Constantin Meunier, whose works
fill a whole room and constitute one of the
principal attractions of the show. Then there are
some delightful metal door panels by Bayes, and a
case of magnificent portrait-medals by Alphonse
Legros. A relief by Frampton is the only other
English work bought.
Director Treu, of the Albertinum, is empowered
to make all his purchases alone. The director of
the picture gallery is not in the same fortunate
position, for he has to submit all works that he
wishes to buy to the approval of a committee.
There are, in fact, two committees, one of which is
appointed by the Government and buys pictures
by foreign artists. I do not think that all their
acquisitions have been very happy ones this year,
but a painting by Austen Brown, and a pastel by
C. Meunier, must certainly be welcomed.
Pictures by German artists are purchased from
the income derived from the Proll-Heuer bequest.
The testator has enjoined that they should be
selected by a committee made up of about a dozen
members, most of whom are professors at the Art
Academy. It seems at times as if they were all
of different opinions and tastes, and that each
member's will prevailed in turn. For if some oi
the paintings that they buy are good, then others
must surely be called bad; nobody can sanction
them all. Among the most desirable additions to
our gallery, there are canvases by W. Ritter,
199