Studio: international art (29.1903)

Shidio- Talk

mere facial delineation. He knows how to make
us feel the intimate life, the associations, the social
quality, the national character of those who have
sat to him.

Rarely has the charm of a familiar subject been
more effectively rendered than in Nounou, in which
the artist's child is depicted attablee in the arms of
its nurse, a woman of the pure Italian type, nervous
as a she-goat on the mountains. A duplicate of
this delightful work exists, and was purchased by
the late Empress of Austria. In the Portrait ofthe
Princess M. IV., which was exhibited this year at
the Salon de la Societe Nationale, the colour-scheme
is of a deep, sombre tone. The decorative back-
ground of a park, from the lawn and trees of which
the light of summer evening is withdrawing, is

pendant

designed by a. kubbiant
executed by ''.-emilia

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well-chosen to throw into
relief the slender, elegant,
life-size figure of the sitter.
The portraiture is as vital
as it is distinguished, and
in the care bestowed upon
the rendering of the fine
quality of dress and lace-
work we feel the artist's
delight in the material for
its own sake. This portrait
is one of the most supple
and perfect works of the
kind the artist has done.

The pure and firmly
drawn profile of Madame
S. obtained a great success,
at La Nationale in 1902,
where it was exhibited side
by side with Pes JVuees, a
beautiful landscape which
was reproduced in The
Studio a few months ago.

There can be no doubt
that one of the best of

sideboard with decorations im beaten copper ^-r- Giron s landscapes is

(See Copenhagen Studio-Talk) La Cime de I'Est. In this

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