Studio: international art (22.1901)

Coloured Etchings in France.

pure and, be it added, excellent engravings. The
colour, in fact, comes as relief, varying the monotony
of the ensemble. The original work in M. Delatre's
plates, like their printing, is always remarkably
good."

■ M. Eugene B£jot, too, has done some very fine
etchings in colours, recording with the most delicate
observation the poetry of the streets, the monu-
ments and the quays of Paris. His Entr'actes de
Pierres, with text by M. Maurice Guillemot, will
remain as some of his best work.

Among the artists who have become enslaved
of this most fascinating process must also be
mentioned Mme. Marie Gautier, M. Henri Paillard,
M. Henri Guerard, and M. Manuel Robbe.

As one may see, the number of etchers in
colours is large; in Paris alone there are from
seventy to eighty artists, Frenchmen and foreigners,
practising the art. I have named the principal—
those who show originality and resource and per-
sonality—and a glance at any collection shows

" CAT " BY FRANCIS JOURDAIN -

(B}' permission oj A'J. C. Hessile, Paris)

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"LE MAJOR ANGLAIS" BY JACQUES VILLON

(By permission oj M. C. ffessele, Paris)

how rare are the qualities named !
Let us be grateful, therefore, to the
artists who first embarked on this new
route; to the amateurs, to the pub-
lishers also, who encouraged them ;
for they have enriched the sphere of
art by means of a novel means of
expression, which corresponds exactly
to modern taste, and to the demands
of a public which day by day is be-
coming more and more thoroughly
penetrated by a love of true and
living art. Gabriel Mourey.

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