DOI issue:
Nr. 117 (December 1902)
DOI article:[Studio-talk]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19877#0232
Studio- Talk
Georgina Offord, Mrs. Tallack, M. Wright, K. The Benediction de I'Aieule is less tragic. Behind
Sturgeon, Mrs. Buckworth, and M. Montgomerie. her granddaughter, delightful in her white veil and
L. P. dress of a premiere communicanie, stands the old
woman, her wrinkled face full of quiet joy. She is
PARIS.—Prominent among the women thinking of the past, moved by the melancholy of
artists of the day whose talents are attract- the bells, and she is happy with a happiness with
ing attention is Mme. Berthe Girardet. which is mingled something of sorrow and regret.
She has a very delicate and very tender It is really exquisite. By simple means Mme.
vision of things, which stamps her work with Berthe Girardet obtains broad emotional effects,
genuine originality. She does not seek her subjects She won a great and a legitimate success at the
far from the life around her : quite the reverse ; last salon of the Societe des Artistes Francais.
and therein lies the charm of her sculpture—a -
great, sincere, and simple charm, which at once M. Leon Lhermitte excels in translating Nature
arouses one's emotion. What, for instance, could —la grande nature—the open country, the poetry
be more poignantly sad than this Enfant malade of peasant life. Sureness of brush, delicacy of
group, with the father, racked with anxiety, bending vision, and entire sincerity have made him justly
over the pillow of his fragile little son, and the famous. He is equally familiar with all methods,
mother, already in an attitude of despair, at the being as successful in pastel as in oils or in fusain.
foot of the bed ? The whole thing is great in its There are those indeed who consider that he is
profound humanity. most at his ease in the fusain—certainly by this
- process he obtains results astonishing in supple-
" l'enfant malade "
220
BY BERTHE GIRARDET
Georgina Offord, Mrs. Tallack, M. Wright, K. The Benediction de I'Aieule is less tragic. Behind
Sturgeon, Mrs. Buckworth, and M. Montgomerie. her granddaughter, delightful in her white veil and
L. P. dress of a premiere communicanie, stands the old
woman, her wrinkled face full of quiet joy. She is
PARIS.—Prominent among the women thinking of the past, moved by the melancholy of
artists of the day whose talents are attract- the bells, and she is happy with a happiness with
ing attention is Mme. Berthe Girardet. which is mingled something of sorrow and regret.
She has a very delicate and very tender It is really exquisite. By simple means Mme.
vision of things, which stamps her work with Berthe Girardet obtains broad emotional effects,
genuine originality. She does not seek her subjects She won a great and a legitimate success at the
far from the life around her : quite the reverse ; last salon of the Societe des Artistes Francais.
and therein lies the charm of her sculpture—a -
great, sincere, and simple charm, which at once M. Leon Lhermitte excels in translating Nature
arouses one's emotion. What, for instance, could —la grande nature—the open country, the poetry
be more poignantly sad than this Enfant malade of peasant life. Sureness of brush, delicacy of
group, with the father, racked with anxiety, bending vision, and entire sincerity have made him justly
over the pillow of his fragile little son, and the famous. He is equally familiar with all methods,
mother, already in an attitude of despair, at the being as successful in pastel as in oils or in fusain.
foot of the bed ? The whole thing is great in its There are those indeed who consider that he is
profound humanity. most at his ease in the fusain—certainly by this
- process he obtains results astonishing in supple-
" l'enfant malade "
220
BY BERTHE GIRARDET