DOI Heft:
No. 71 (february 1899)
DOI Artikel:Mourey, Gabriel: Some recent work by Alexandre Charpentier
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19231#0038
Recent Work by A. Charpentier
moreover, with quite unusual sensibility, could with an equal sense of the modern style. Like the
have produced such a work. The gifts I have great masters to whom I have compared him,
enumerated are all Charpentier's, as every one who Charpentier has the gift of reproducing life in
is acquainted with his work knows well; for he supple, subtly expressive forms; and, like theirs,
has given frequent proof to that effect, and fur- his art is an art full of grace and charm. From
nishes fresh proof, indeed, in this very exhibition ; them, too, he inherits that sense of proportion,
but I do not think they have ever before been that sure taste, which were once peculiar to our
displayed so amply, in such perfect profusion, such race, but have been lost meanwhile — alike in
radiant harmony. This work shows the direct literature and in art—amid our excursions into
kinship of Charpentier with the incomparable Romanticism and Naturalism!
French artists of the eighteenth century, whose I shall certainly not attempt to describe a work
tradition he now carries on with so much delicacy such as this ; it is beyond criticism ; and any com-
of fancy, so much grace and keenness, combined ment on its meaning were quite superfluous. No
LES TROIS PARQUES" BAS-RELIEFS IN GILT BRONZE
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BY ALEXANDRE CHARPENTIER
moreover, with quite unusual sensibility, could with an equal sense of the modern style. Like the
have produced such a work. The gifts I have great masters to whom I have compared him,
enumerated are all Charpentier's, as every one who Charpentier has the gift of reproducing life in
is acquainted with his work knows well; for he supple, subtly expressive forms; and, like theirs,
has given frequent proof to that effect, and fur- his art is an art full of grace and charm. From
nishes fresh proof, indeed, in this very exhibition ; them, too, he inherits that sense of proportion,
but I do not think they have ever before been that sure taste, which were once peculiar to our
displayed so amply, in such perfect profusion, such race, but have been lost meanwhile — alike in
radiant harmony. This work shows the direct literature and in art—amid our excursions into
kinship of Charpentier with the incomparable Romanticism and Naturalism!
French artists of the eighteenth century, whose I shall certainly not attempt to describe a work
tradition he now carries on with so much delicacy such as this ; it is beyond criticism ; and any com-
of fancy, so much grace and keenness, combined ment on its meaning were quite superfluous. No
LES TROIS PARQUES" BAS-RELIEFS IN GILT BRONZE
28
BY ALEXANDRE CHARPENTIER