Studio- Talk
PARIS.—M. Gabriel Rousseau,
one of Moreau's pupils and
by no means the least of them,
recently exhibited a group of
views of the Rhine which deserve atten-
tion, first on account of their technical
merit, and secondly because they reveal
on the part of their author a desire—
to my thinking a most praiseworthy desire
—to devote himself to landscapes of
which nature alone does not constitute
the whole charm, but which are en-
nobled by lovely ruins.
sculptured plaque by vallgren
Although this young artist reverts in a
measure to the historical landscape, it
must not be imagined that he is retro-
gressive, for his technique is essentially
modern ; as a matter of fact, he has
passed through three phases. At the
outset he was too much inspired by the masters; brilliant future for him, if only he continue in
then he indulged in the extravagances of le pointil- the way he has now chosen.
lisme; now he appears before us sobered but -
personal, and without rashness one may predict a M. Vallgren, the able Finnish artist, excels
equally in sculpture great and small.
His little statuettes are like Tanagras
of our own day; though somewhat
more restless, more troubled, more
modern, in short. In these little works
he sometimes contents himself with
attempting the indication merely of a
movement, studied directly from nature;
sometimes, on the contrary, he gives us
such admirably finished works as those
reproduced here. In one of these the
decorative feeling is of the highest
quality, while the other vibrates through
and through with restrained tenderness.
As regards modelling, the back of the
woman bending towards her child is a
masterly achievement.
Emile Galle is dead. I have already
described the great artist in glass in
the pages of The Studio. In him we
lose the master of the Nancy School,
and one who was certainly our greatest
decorator—a French William Morris.
M. Benedite has just had the happy
idea of organising an exhibition of
Henry Monnier's works at the Muse"e
du Luxembourg. The men of that
statuette by vallgren generation are certainly being better
!73
PARIS.—M. Gabriel Rousseau,
one of Moreau's pupils and
by no means the least of them,
recently exhibited a group of
views of the Rhine which deserve atten-
tion, first on account of their technical
merit, and secondly because they reveal
on the part of their author a desire—
to my thinking a most praiseworthy desire
—to devote himself to landscapes of
which nature alone does not constitute
the whole charm, but which are en-
nobled by lovely ruins.
sculptured plaque by vallgren
Although this young artist reverts in a
measure to the historical landscape, it
must not be imagined that he is retro-
gressive, for his technique is essentially
modern ; as a matter of fact, he has
passed through three phases. At the
outset he was too much inspired by the masters; brilliant future for him, if only he continue in
then he indulged in the extravagances of le pointil- the way he has now chosen.
lisme; now he appears before us sobered but -
personal, and without rashness one may predict a M. Vallgren, the able Finnish artist, excels
equally in sculpture great and small.
His little statuettes are like Tanagras
of our own day; though somewhat
more restless, more troubled, more
modern, in short. In these little works
he sometimes contents himself with
attempting the indication merely of a
movement, studied directly from nature;
sometimes, on the contrary, he gives us
such admirably finished works as those
reproduced here. In one of these the
decorative feeling is of the highest
quality, while the other vibrates through
and through with restrained tenderness.
As regards modelling, the back of the
woman bending towards her child is a
masterly achievement.
Emile Galle is dead. I have already
described the great artist in glass in
the pages of The Studio. In him we
lose the master of the Nancy School,
and one who was certainly our greatest
decorator—a French William Morris.
M. Benedite has just had the happy
idea of organising an exhibition of
Henry Monnier's works at the Muse"e
du Luxembourg. The men of that
statuette by vallgren generation are certainly being better
!73