DOI issue:
No. 70 (January 1899)
DOI article:The decoration of the musée des beaux-arts at Neuchâtel
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19230#0289
Decorations at Neuchdtel
The large pieces of relief between the arches developing concurrently with the work for the
below were modelled by M. Robert on the spot, Musee.
cast in plaster therefrom, and brought into harmony A close study of ancient Egyptian, Assyrian,
with the rest by forming a gradation from the full Greek, and Byzantine works, as well as of all that
colour of the cloisonne below to the lighter colour are derived from them, including much of the best
above. media;val work, had led Mr. Heaton to suppose
The illustrations were taken before the large that the relief in round boss which we are so accus-
panels corresponding to those occupied by the tomed to see everywhere was of Roman origin, and
pictures were dealt with. It was somewhat difficult that the nations whose works have the greatest
to know what to do with them, as, had painting refinement, coupled with the use of colour, worked
been resorted to, it would have necessitated doing on the principle of relief in lines or edges—in fact,
more pictures. Yet the same weight of colour had the very opposite of what we are accustomed to do.
to be given, and the fuller colour -of the archi- M. Robert did not hesitate to adopt the use of the
tectural lines in cloisonne respected. The difficulty paper executed on this principle, as it afforded a
was met by the use of another material, a relief- means, when glued to the wall-surface, of giving a
paper in linear relief, which Mr. Heaton had been beautiful texture otherwise unattainable, which yet
allows polychromatic treat-
ment. The forests and
_ marshes were consulted,
^H^x ani' t'10 al'iancc between
^^^B^ \/\ / /4^k colour and relief of texture
\S found to be general in
^HH^^^JHpK^lj^H plant-form : and the relief
as used in this paper is but
a souvenir in art of every-
^•iSsS^M^'J!? day fact in nature.
The panels were not
'^^^HJHfei'i*^*' - intended to be a feature,
hence a confused non-
assertive design was de-
sirable. What could be
better for a town among
^ ' " - - gamut^ of colour once
GENERAL VIEW OF VAULT AT ANGLE BETWEEN THE PICTURES chosen, the character of
258
The large pieces of relief between the arches developing concurrently with the work for the
below were modelled by M. Robert on the spot, Musee.
cast in plaster therefrom, and brought into harmony A close study of ancient Egyptian, Assyrian,
with the rest by forming a gradation from the full Greek, and Byzantine works, as well as of all that
colour of the cloisonne below to the lighter colour are derived from them, including much of the best
above. media;val work, had led Mr. Heaton to suppose
The illustrations were taken before the large that the relief in round boss which we are so accus-
panels corresponding to those occupied by the tomed to see everywhere was of Roman origin, and
pictures were dealt with. It was somewhat difficult that the nations whose works have the greatest
to know what to do with them, as, had painting refinement, coupled with the use of colour, worked
been resorted to, it would have necessitated doing on the principle of relief in lines or edges—in fact,
more pictures. Yet the same weight of colour had the very opposite of what we are accustomed to do.
to be given, and the fuller colour -of the archi- M. Robert did not hesitate to adopt the use of the
tectural lines in cloisonne respected. The difficulty paper executed on this principle, as it afforded a
was met by the use of another material, a relief- means, when glued to the wall-surface, of giving a
paper in linear relief, which Mr. Heaton had been beautiful texture otherwise unattainable, which yet
allows polychromatic treat-
ment. The forests and
_ marshes were consulted,
^H^x ani' t'10 al'iancc between
^^^B^ \/\ / /4^k colour and relief of texture
\S found to be general in
^HH^^^JHpK^lj^H plant-form : and the relief
as used in this paper is but
a souvenir in art of every-
^•iSsS^M^'J!? day fact in nature.
The panels were not
'^^^HJHfei'i*^*' - intended to be a feature,
hence a confused non-
assertive design was de-
sirable. What could be
better for a town among
^ ' " - - gamut^ of colour once
GENERAL VIEW OF VAULT AT ANGLE BETWEEN THE PICTURES chosen, the character of
258