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who excels in a certain impressionistic treatment
of his subjects, as will be seen by the examples we
reproduce.
Henri Riviere, an artist of genuine and un-
common talent, was represented at the Salon of
the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts by a series of
exceptionally fine lithographs in colour, the sub-
jects of which have been culled from the life of
our mariners. As in all his works, Riviere displays
in these lithographs quite an intimate feeling for
decorative effect. Two of them especially appeal
to us. In Le Port we get a glimpse of what goes
on in a little Breton port, flanked by a line of
picturesque cliffs with quaint thatched cottages,
where a number of smacks moored alongside the
bank are discharging the haul they have brought
in. No less happy is the idea which has inspired
the drawing called Les Vieux, where we have a
group of old fishermen watching from the top of
the cliff the return of the fleet of smacks dotted
about on the sea. Here truly we have an art that
is at once simple, clear, and capable of being
medal by o. spaniel
PARIS.—At the recent Salon des Artistes
Francais we caught sight of some inter-
esting work by a young Austrian en-
graver, O. Spaniel. He is an artist
with an undoubted gift for portraiture, and one
"les vieux" (By permission of M. Verneau) from the colour print by henri riviere-
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who excels in a certain impressionistic treatment
of his subjects, as will be seen by the examples we
reproduce.
Henri Riviere, an artist of genuine and un-
common talent, was represented at the Salon of
the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts by a series of
exceptionally fine lithographs in colour, the sub-
jects of which have been culled from the life of
our mariners. As in all his works, Riviere displays
in these lithographs quite an intimate feeling for
decorative effect. Two of them especially appeal
to us. In Le Port we get a glimpse of what goes
on in a little Breton port, flanked by a line of
picturesque cliffs with quaint thatched cottages,
where a number of smacks moored alongside the
bank are discharging the haul they have brought
in. No less happy is the idea which has inspired
the drawing called Les Vieux, where we have a
group of old fishermen watching from the top of
the cliff the return of the fleet of smacks dotted
about on the sea. Here truly we have an art that
is at once simple, clear, and capable of being
medal by o. spaniel
PARIS.—At the recent Salon des Artistes
Francais we caught sight of some inter-
esting work by a young Austrian en-
graver, O. Spaniel. He is an artist
with an undoubted gift for portraiture, and one
"les vieux" (By permission of M. Verneau) from the colour print by henri riviere-
73