DOI Heft:
No. 138 (September, 1904)
DOI Artikel:Frantz, Henri: Modern French pastellists - Jules Chéret
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19882#0344
Modern French Pastellists
"PARISIENNE" BY J. CHERET
revival in France to-day. In a certain degree he
clings to tradition, but he treats it freely, indepen-
dently. He draws after the fashion of the old
masters—as his sanguines proclaim—but he is
resolutely modern in all that concerns the colourist's
process.
What a pastel by Cheret means is a momentary
forgetfulness of all the troubles of our daily life.
Once more it is the Embarquement pour Cytliere,
the happy flight into the regions of fancy and
dreamland and the ideal.
Henri Frantz.
It is of interest to recall at the present moment
that the late Mr. G. F. Watts, R.A., painted his
first work in true fresco in the Villa Careggi, near
Florence, where he stayed for some time with
320
Lord Holland, then the British representative at
the Court of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. This
picture represents the scene where the physician
of Lorenzo II Magnifico is being thrown down
a well, as he was suspected of administering poison
to his dying master. There are exhibited in the
Victoria and Albert Museum some interesting
trial-pieces, which Mr. Watts executed in true
fresco on a suitable ground before beginning to
paint on the wall. These trial-pieces came from
the Contessa Cottrell, the widow of a chamberlain
of the Grand Duke of Lucca, who was a friend
of Mr. Watts in those days, and of whom he
painted a fine portrait. These trial-pieces will be
found of very great interest to students of the late
master's art, as well as those to whom the subject
of true fresco work makes a special appeal.
"PARISIENNE" BY J. CHERET
"PARISIENNE" BY J. CHERET
revival in France to-day. In a certain degree he
clings to tradition, but he treats it freely, indepen-
dently. He draws after the fashion of the old
masters—as his sanguines proclaim—but he is
resolutely modern in all that concerns the colourist's
process.
What a pastel by Cheret means is a momentary
forgetfulness of all the troubles of our daily life.
Once more it is the Embarquement pour Cytliere,
the happy flight into the regions of fancy and
dreamland and the ideal.
Henri Frantz.
It is of interest to recall at the present moment
that the late Mr. G. F. Watts, R.A., painted his
first work in true fresco in the Villa Careggi, near
Florence, where he stayed for some time with
320
Lord Holland, then the British representative at
the Court of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. This
picture represents the scene where the physician
of Lorenzo II Magnifico is being thrown down
a well, as he was suspected of administering poison
to his dying master. There are exhibited in the
Victoria and Albert Museum some interesting
trial-pieces, which Mr. Watts executed in true
fresco on a suitable ground before beginning to
paint on the wall. These trial-pieces came from
the Contessa Cottrell, the widow of a chamberlain
of the Grand Duke of Lucca, who was a friend
of Mr. Watts in those days, and of whom he
painted a fine portrait. These trial-pieces will be
found of very great interest to students of the late
master's art, as well as those to whom the subject
of true fresco work makes a special appeal.
"PARISIENNE" BY J. CHERET