Studio: international art (16.1899)

Studio-Talk

picture, which is only illumined by a vague, fleeting hands and feet. The three rich and influential
light, falling from the side. men who have made a present of this fine picture
- to the Suasso Museum at Amsterdam have indeed

To the right of the spectator, in profile, is the enriched the town by a regal gift,
uplifted face of David, who seems to behold his -

glorious future as in a vision—Jerusalem with its Messrs. van Wisselingh & Co. are now exhibit-
blue mountains stretched out in a pale, silver mist ing a table, a sideboard, and a clock, the two former
at his feet. In this landscape, especially where the after designs by Lion Cachet, who has himself
entire light of the picture is concentrated, Israels executed part of the ornaments and carvings, the
has unfolded all the charm and all the magic of latter after a design by Nieuwenhuis. The table
his talent. _ is not only very handsome, but is also well propor-

tioned and carries no superfluous " supports"
His preliminary studies for these life-size figures which support nothing and get in everybody's way.
have been executed with the greatest care, and The table has been inlaid with various kinds of
treated with the utmost accuracy, especially the wood, the feet being adorned with partly-gilded

carvings, the latter in
themselves perhaps a

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them a slender appear-
ance.

The sideboard is,
perhaps, a trifle over-
charged with ornament,
while purity of outline
might have been more
conscientiously ob-
served; but the orna-
mentation in gold is
very successful, and on
the folding door of the
lower part some of the
figures are very daintily
cut out in white in the
black wood. All the
details, the hinges in
copper, and the locks
and fastenings, have
been very carefully
made after designs by
Mr. Lion Cachet.

This very original
piece of work, though
not perfect in outline,
is nevertheless very re-
markable. This may
also be said of the
clock in brass and
copper, with several
very successful figures
engraved on the dial

i {See Paris Studio-Talk) by c. h. huard and the sides. The

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