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Studio-Talk
understood and appreciated every day ; and our and still find it—in this land of ineffable charm,
contemporaries delight in reviewing society as it With its art-colonies at Pont-Aven and Concarneau
was thirty to fifty years ago, faithfully portrayed we associate the names of Bastien Lepage, Dagnan
by such as Daumier, Gavami, or Guys. Thus Bouveret, Jules Breton, and Bouguereau, and in
Monnier in his carefully-elaborated, painstaking more recent years those of Simon, Cottet, etc.
little compositions, shows himself as truthful Some men have wandered to Benodet, and other
a depictor of bourgeois society as could possibly isolated places, seeking solitude and fresh subjects
be found. For his personages are placed with for their work, striving to go even deeper into the
delightful naturalness in their appropriate sur- heart of Nature and the life of the people than did
roundings, in the manner of the seventeenth the pioneer workers of thirty years ago. Brittany
century Flemish artists ; and with him decorative offers an almost inexhaustible treasury of interest,
arrangement makes its entry into the field of Besides fine sea-coast and glorious sea, it has also
caricature. With his scenes from the life of actors wild inland scenery, with tracts of moorland and
and actresses, his idylls of the Quartier Latin, his forest; and restful villages like Pont-Aven and
artists at home, his financiers in their private Quimperle", where rivers flow through scenery
rooms, the artist who created Joseph Prudhomme similar to that of Wales. In addition to these
takes his place definitively beside Gavarni. surroundings there is the life of the people to
study, a simple life, lived close to nature, but varied
ONCARNEAU.—Brittany has been for in a remarkable degree according to environment,
many years the chosen home of painters. -
Not only Frenchmen, but painters of It is at the excellent inns, glorified by the names
all nationalities have found inspiration— of hotels, that artistic life finds a centre. Living
c
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understood and appreciated every day ; and our and still find it—in this land of ineffable charm,
contemporaries delight in reviewing society as it With its art-colonies at Pont-Aven and Concarneau
was thirty to fifty years ago, faithfully portrayed we associate the names of Bastien Lepage, Dagnan
by such as Daumier, Gavami, or Guys. Thus Bouveret, Jules Breton, and Bouguereau, and in
Monnier in his carefully-elaborated, painstaking more recent years those of Simon, Cottet, etc.
little compositions, shows himself as truthful Some men have wandered to Benodet, and other
a depictor of bourgeois society as could possibly isolated places, seeking solitude and fresh subjects
be found. For his personages are placed with for their work, striving to go even deeper into the
delightful naturalness in their appropriate sur- heart of Nature and the life of the people than did
roundings, in the manner of the seventeenth the pioneer workers of thirty years ago. Brittany
century Flemish artists ; and with him decorative offers an almost inexhaustible treasury of interest,
arrangement makes its entry into the field of Besides fine sea-coast and glorious sea, it has also
caricature. With his scenes from the life of actors wild inland scenery, with tracts of moorland and
and actresses, his idylls of the Quartier Latin, his forest; and restful villages like Pont-Aven and
artists at home, his financiers in their private Quimperle", where rivers flow through scenery
rooms, the artist who created Joseph Prudhomme similar to that of Wales. In addition to these
takes his place definitively beside Gavarni. surroundings there is the life of the people to
study, a simple life, lived close to nature, but varied
ONCARNEAU.—Brittany has been for in a remarkable degree according to environment,
many years the chosen home of painters. -
Not only Frenchmen, but painters of It is at the excellent inns, glorified by the names
all nationalities have found inspiration— of hotels, that artistic life finds a centre. Living
c
!LA VIEILLB RUE" (See Paris Studio-Talk) BY GABRIEL ROUSSEAU
174