Studio: international art (26.1902)

The Paris Salons

first-named, with his Lie Heureuse, the second the Danish painter Kroyer, the portraits of

with his tapestry cartoon, Le Pare, and the third, Americans of both sexes by Cecilia Beaux, Mile.

with his Sejour de Paix et de Joie, worthily main- Poncet, by Aman-Jean, and M. Denys Cochin, by

tain an art which, owing to indifference on the Besnard.

part of " the powers that be," and also to the in- Lucien Simon, in his Sceurs Queteuses—which

competency of the majority of those who practise must be regarded as one of the strongest works

it, has fallen into a lamentable state of decadence. in the two Salons—and in his Canserie dn Soir,

There are many portrait-painters. J. E. Blanche shows us the two sides of his forceful and original

is highly successful in his representations of Charles talent.

Cottet, Paul Adam, and young Philippe Barres; Here we find Charles Cottet still faithful to his

Lavery sends a Premiere Communiante, in white Brittany, his Messe Basse en Hiver being one of

and silver greys of the utmost delicacy, also a the most penetrating things bearing his signature;

portrait of a lady in grey and black. The two Pierre Albert Laurens, whose honest vision is

portraits of ladies by T. Austen Brown—especially clearly expressed in a peasant scene—Le Partage ;

the Musicienne — are superb. Antonio de la Albert Baertsoen, whose Chalands sous la Neige,

Gandara, in his portrait of Mme. S...., as in that lent by the Musee de Bruxelles, reveals a certain

of Mme. F...., maintains his position as our fore- sadness of vision and a very personal faculty of

most painter of feminine grace. The portrait of interpretation; also Emile Claus, who, in his Verger

Mme. Edouard Dujardin, by Anquetin, is quite en Flandre, displays his profound love of bright,

admirable, as are the Portrait de Deux Sceurs, healthy nature.

and M. Leon Delafosse by the incomparable John One must needs pause a moment before the

Sargent, the portrait of Bjornsterne-Bjornson, by twilights, the snows, the winter-bound gardens of

: LA PORTE SAINT-DENIS FROM THE PAINTING BY J. F. RAFFAELLI

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