DOI Heft:
No. 82 (January, 1900)
DOI Artikel:Reviews on recent publications
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19783#0322
Reviews of Recent Publications
Purged of its extravagant and aimless eccentricity watched with keen interest by the ever increasing
and strengthened by a more discriminating selec- admirers of the modern Dutch school,
tion of articles and stories, the well-printed little Messrs. Chapman & Hall (London) send us a
Butterfly should enjoy a prosperous career. series of educational publications for the use of
- students of art. They consist of various books of
Nicolas Poussin: His Life and Work. By outline drawings of Renaissance ornament, erro-
Elizabeth H. Denis, Ph.D. (London: Sampson neously, we think, termed "freehand," with sundry
Low, Marston & Co.)—The work of this great photographic reproductions from casts intended
French painter of the seventeenth century has prob- as studies in light and shade, prepared, as we
ably received less attention than that of any understand, to meet the recommendations of a
other painter of equal merit. The Memoirs, by quite recent official letter from the Science and
Maria Graham, published in the early part of this Art Department. Some paper-covered drawing
century, is probably the only volume in English books filled with various grades of drawing paper
which has previously appeared upon the subject; for the use of young students, issued by the same
and although numerous accounts of the painter firm, admirably meet the perennial school demands
have appeared in French in various publications for such material,
during the past hundred
years, it was time that the
scattered threads were col-
lected and woven into a
new web of evidence.
This has been admirably
achieved by Dr. Elizabeth
Denis, and her work
promises to become the
work of reference for
future students. It is
illustrated by eight charac-
teristic photogravures, and
is a satisfactory publication
in every way.
Drawings, &c. By
Gerard Muller. — We
have received from the
proprietors of the Holland
Fine Art Gallery in Regent
Street a portfolio containing
twelve excellent reproduc-
tions of drawings by Mr.
Gerard Muller, a Dutch
artist of considerable ability
and power. The drawings
consist of landscapes and
figure and flower studies,
and are most charmingly
reproduced and mounted.
We shall not be surprised
to find in the near future
Mr. Muller's name rank-
ing high among the modern
painters of Holland, and
the progress of his art will be nos. mention (comp. a xliii) " i>
293
Purged of its extravagant and aimless eccentricity watched with keen interest by the ever increasing
and strengthened by a more discriminating selec- admirers of the modern Dutch school,
tion of articles and stories, the well-printed little Messrs. Chapman & Hall (London) send us a
Butterfly should enjoy a prosperous career. series of educational publications for the use of
- students of art. They consist of various books of
Nicolas Poussin: His Life and Work. By outline drawings of Renaissance ornament, erro-
Elizabeth H. Denis, Ph.D. (London: Sampson neously, we think, termed "freehand," with sundry
Low, Marston & Co.)—The work of this great photographic reproductions from casts intended
French painter of the seventeenth century has prob- as studies in light and shade, prepared, as we
ably received less attention than that of any understand, to meet the recommendations of a
other painter of equal merit. The Memoirs, by quite recent official letter from the Science and
Maria Graham, published in the early part of this Art Department. Some paper-covered drawing
century, is probably the only volume in English books filled with various grades of drawing paper
which has previously appeared upon the subject; for the use of young students, issued by the same
and although numerous accounts of the painter firm, admirably meet the perennial school demands
have appeared in French in various publications for such material,
during the past hundred
years, it was time that the
scattered threads were col-
lected and woven into a
new web of evidence.
This has been admirably
achieved by Dr. Elizabeth
Denis, and her work
promises to become the
work of reference for
future students. It is
illustrated by eight charac-
teristic photogravures, and
is a satisfactory publication
in every way.
Drawings, &c. By
Gerard Muller. — We
have received from the
proprietors of the Holland
Fine Art Gallery in Regent
Street a portfolio containing
twelve excellent reproduc-
tions of drawings by Mr.
Gerard Muller, a Dutch
artist of considerable ability
and power. The drawings
consist of landscapes and
figure and flower studies,
and are most charmingly
reproduced and mounted.
We shall not be surprised
to find in the near future
Mr. Muller's name rank-
ing high among the modern
painters of Holland, and
the progress of his art will be nos. mention (comp. a xliii) " i>
293