Studio: international art (18.1900)

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of earlier date. Unhappily—or happily perhaps—
we shall not live to see that day!

Le Triomphe de la Republique, by the sculptor
Dalou, lately inaugurated on the Place de la Nation,
must be considered one of the most important and
imposing pieces of public statuary produced in re-
cent years. Liberty is represented erect in a trium-
phal car, drawn by lions, symbolising Popular
Power; Justice and Labour march on either side,
and Peace and Plenty follow in their train, scatter-
ing flowers of life and happiness around. It is a
powerful work, full of lofty inspiration, and with its
force no little grace is mingled. In every way it is
worthy of the master-sculptor to whom we owe the
bas-relief of Mirabeau, the Delacroix monument
and so many other works of equal beauty. His
Triomphe has occupied him for no less than twenty
years, from conception to inauguration. The cast-
ing alone took half the time.

M. Camille Boignard, a very young artist, full of
ability and imagination, has carried off the prize in
the competition organised by the Ministry of Com-

study for chaucer's " canterbury tales"

by h. schwaiger
(See Vienna Sludio-Talk)

wallachian peasant woman

from a drawing by h. schwaiger
(See Vienna Stndio-Taik)

merce, in connection with the diploma for next
year's Universal Exhibition. The competitors
were very numerous, and the fact that M. Albert
Besnard was one of them is sufficient proof of the
winner's merit. The prize was 10,000 francs. In
M. Boignard we have a young artist whose career
opens with brightest promise.

We have pleasure in giving on page 137 a repro-
duction of a recent work by M. Fritz Thaulow,
entitled La Totiraine.

M. F. Jourdain's etching in colours, Le Chale
rouge, reproduced as a frontispiece to the September
number of The Studio, is published by M. Hessele
of the Rue Laffitte. G. M.

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