Studio: international art (24.1902)

Studio- Talk

whether it be possible to reveal the workings of but at the outset of his career, which piomises to
the heart to greater perfection. be full of glory for him and for the land of his

-- birth.

Any one who has seen the figure of the youth—
the Adolescente to which I have already alluded, "I ""V RUSSELS.—Several displays—of interest
and his bust of Leopardi in the atrium of the I ^ by reason of their honest and serious
Ateneo at Palermo, must be convinced of the fact : 1 intent—have been held recently at the
that form and fancy are most artistically blended in Cercle Artistique. Mdlle. Art showed

the artist. a fresh series of pastels of bold design and charming

colour. M. R. Janssens was well represented by
Young as he is, Ugo is no novice in art; he is a large collection of his Coins de vieilles villes et
well known at our exhibitions, where on several . vieux logis. The numerous display of portraits
occasions his works have gained prizes. Yet he is and landscapes by M. Verheyden gave emphatic

proof of simplicity of vision and well-
controlled technique, while extreme
delicacy was the prevailing quality in
the work of the late M. Binje. M.
„Jj Otteraere exhibited several poetically-

— conceived scenes—parks and cathedrals;

* i . and M. V. Rousseau, who is certainly the

[■//■ 0 i most interesting personality in the young

, Belgian school of sculpture, delighted

, s , ,„ everyone by his exquisitely beautiful

S it"' .a^flffwfflH little bronze groups.

The exhibition of the Societe des
Aquafortistes Beiges was also held at the
Cercle Artistique, and proved a complete
success. The public, already interested
by the articles in The Studio devoted
to the experiments in colour engraving
made recently in France, had an oppor-
tunity of seeing for themselves the works
so ably and so acutely criticised by M.
G. Mourey. Germany, represented by
MM. Klinger and Koepping, sent works
of extraordinary cleverness ; while Hol-
land, in the persons of MM. Zilcken,
Bauer, Bosch, Nieuwenkamp, Storm
Van Gravesande, and others, was seen
to great advantage. M. M. E. Orlik,
an Austrian, sent several vivid and life-
like sketches ; and the English exhibitors
included Messrs. Herkomer, Cameron,
Alfred East, and Laing. Spain had for
its representative M. Egusquiza, and
Portugal M. Quintella de Sampayo.

The exhibits from Belgium were many
and various. Prominent among them
was that of H.R.H. the Countess of
Flanders; and mention should also be
made of the boldly-treated etchings by
1 un masque" from a dry point by fernand KHNorFF MM. Baertsoen, Wytsman, Van Ryssel-

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