Studio: international art (16.1899)

Studio- Talk

joinings consist almost entirely of nails, and where
these remain visible the nail-heads form a pleasant
pattern. Applied art is at last beginning to show
signs of revival in the North Netherlands.

P. DE M.

PARIS.—The first display by a charming
little group of artists—the " Demi-
Douzaine"—was opened recently in
the galleries of the Artistes Modernes.
The " half-dozen " have audacity and
enthusiasm, a strong desire to work, and an honest
love of art. A still higher virtue they possess in
the fact that they are in no way theorists ; they
have no pretensions to revolutionise French art by
the medium of new-fangled methods such as those
adopted by certain charlatans who shall be name-
less. Moreover, they are all young.

M. Bejot is a delightful draughtsman and a most
delicate etcher. To the exhibition in question he
has sent a series of Parisian scenes, in which, with

a light and expressive touch, he fixes the features
of the great city. Works like Le Pont de Tolbiac
and Le Quai des Orfivres are worthy of special
mention; while the coloured etching here repro-
duced—one of his series called Entr'actes de
Pierre—is characteristic of his delicately sensitive
qualities.

The large canvas by M. • Camille Bourget—Le
Commerce et la Navigation—is a bold effort, which,
despite a certain hesitation in point of technique,
and although somewhat lacking in force, never-
theless gives evidence of an earnestness of purpose
and a skill which will surely develop in due course.

A series of portraits by M. Pierre Bracquemond
—son of the celebrated etcher—displays genuine
gifts which only need work and study to ensure
their rich expansion. The young artist has much
to learn ; above all, he must look at Nature more
directly, and with more simplicity; for then there