Studio: international art (12.1898)

Studio- Talk

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extremely clever pictures, hut there-
was nothing, to use a word much
in vogue on the Continent, " monu-
mental " about it, no classic work
worthy of the best French painters.
That this was so was plainly de-
monstrated by the fact that the
place of honour was given to
Bonnat's Idyl, too well known, no
doubt, also on the other side of
the Channel, to require any com-
ment.

Rather clever in conception was
Mme. Breton's The Mistletoe
(page 271). There was something
cold and chaste in this spare
maiden with which the whole tone
of the picture harmonised. Of
other figure-paintings may be men-
tioned Jean Paul Laurens's Hos-
tages, which possessed a certain
style; Breton's Christmas Eve, a
pleasantly rendered little episode;
Berton's Somnolency, Lerolle's In-
te?'io?; Merson's The Annunciation,
the latter of which belong to a more
advanced school. Place-Canton's
The Old Harbour at Marseilles was
by wako bukovac a very fine picture, with excellent

striking picture, unneces-
sarily black, perhaps, on
the whole, but giving
much of the work-a-day
individuality of the great
river. Last, but not least,
Harrison's Marines should
have that tribute paid
them which they so fully
deserve. _

Of French pictures,
there were close upon
one hundred and twenty,
and as a result they were
unduly crowded, to the
detriment of many and
the disadvantage of most.
The collection was not
by any means a bad one,
for there were many

excellent or, at any rate, portrait of himself and wife by hans rHOMA

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