Studio: international art (17.1899)

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which will doubtless have a great success, inasmuch
as they reveal to us a Smits hitherto unknown.
Notable among them are several delightful land-
scapes, full of poetry. Smits is an artist whose
future work must inevitably be of great value.

P. de M.

HOLLAND.—Early in April there was
exhibited at the offices of the
Haagsche Kunstkring, at The Hague,
a collection of interesting drawings,
brought back by Joseph Israels after
a trip to Spain. Some of them are astonishing in
their simplicity, their life, and their movement.

At Amsterdam M. van Wisselingh is exhibiting
more than fifty oil-paintings, water-colours, sketches,
and studies by Albert Neuhuys, an artist of the
Israels school. Despite the fact that work of this
kind has been somewhat overdone of late, he suc-

ceeds in interesting us in more than one of these
canvases, and undoubtedly he has a right to be
classed among the important Dutch painters of to-
day. I should consider his best works to be : Les
Amoureux (oil-painting), Moment de Peine, Le
Repas de Midi., Pres du Berceau (water-colours),
and drawings such as Le Rou'et.

M.

BERLIN.—On a former occasion (see
Vol. X. p. 198) I referred in The
Studio to the decorative works of
Hermann Hirzel. The painter, re-
turning home after a long stay in
Italy, made careful studies from nature in the
country surrounding Berlin, in which, as I pointed
out, he combined the vision of the artist with the
minute observation of the botanical student. He
noted every detail of plant, and leaf, and stem, and
flower, and their connection with each other;

DECORATION FOR A DINING-ROOM

[By permission of M. E. Detaille)

BY C. PLUMET AND T. SELMERSHEIM

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