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Nr. 168 (March 1907)
DOI Artikel:Uzanne, Octave: Gaston Hochard: A painter of French types
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Gaston Hochard
“ EN PROVENCE: ENFANTS DE CHCEUR ”
at a collection of the works of M. Gaston Hochard,
a powerful painter of France and things French,
who forms a happy exception to the general rule.
More or less consciously this artist works untiringly
in his own furrow, seeking out all that is picturesque
in the official ceremonies of our Republican cities
—showing us the clergy
officiating in their full vest-
ments, the military and
civil authorities marching
ceremoniously in proces-
sion, the provincial fanfares
led by brothers of the
Christian schools, with
choir boys grouped at the
church door; or street-
singers, or vendors of
air-balls for children, or
those taking part in district
competitions, or cathedral
singers, as well as the
special public of the race-
course, and the humble
merchants of the pavement.
All these things interest
one from divers points of
view, but chiefly because
of the talent displayed by
M. Hochard in his poly-
chrome notation of these
pleasing pictures of French
life under the Third Repub-
lic ; and they will assuredly
be of still more interest to
our grandchildren, who will
discover in these pictures
the physical and decorative
expressions of the life and
customs of to - day, with
which they would other-
wise never become ac-
quainted. In days to come
these works of Gaston
Hochard will be sought
after just as to-day one
seeks after those of Boilly
and Debucourt and Carle
Vernet. And that will only
be doing them justice. This
age of ours will leave be-
hind it so few painted docu-
ments on the collectivity
and the exterior costumes
of our social, political, and
municipal life ! With the exception of works
officially commissioned, there will be nothing to
note.
The highly expressive art of M. Gaston Hochard
is essentially original in manner. Each of the types
he puts into his pictures, which are remarkably
BY_GASTON. HOCHARD
2 17
BY GASTON HOCHARD
EN PROVENCE: LES MUSICIENS”
“ EN PROVENCE: ENFANTS DE CHCEUR ”
at a collection of the works of M. Gaston Hochard,
a powerful painter of France and things French,
who forms a happy exception to the general rule.
More or less consciously this artist works untiringly
in his own furrow, seeking out all that is picturesque
in the official ceremonies of our Republican cities
—showing us the clergy
officiating in their full vest-
ments, the military and
civil authorities marching
ceremoniously in proces-
sion, the provincial fanfares
led by brothers of the
Christian schools, with
choir boys grouped at the
church door; or street-
singers, or vendors of
air-balls for children, or
those taking part in district
competitions, or cathedral
singers, as well as the
special public of the race-
course, and the humble
merchants of the pavement.
All these things interest
one from divers points of
view, but chiefly because
of the talent displayed by
M. Hochard in his poly-
chrome notation of these
pleasing pictures of French
life under the Third Repub-
lic ; and they will assuredly
be of still more interest to
our grandchildren, who will
discover in these pictures
the physical and decorative
expressions of the life and
customs of to - day, with
which they would other-
wise never become ac-
quainted. In days to come
these works of Gaston
Hochard will be sought
after just as to-day one
seeks after those of Boilly
and Debucourt and Carle
Vernet. And that will only
be doing them justice. This
age of ours will leave be-
hind it so few painted docu-
ments on the collectivity
and the exterior costumes
of our social, political, and
municipal life ! With the exception of works
officially commissioned, there will be nothing to
note.
The highly expressive art of M. Gaston Hochard
is essentially original in manner. Each of the types
he puts into his pictures, which are remarkably
BY_GASTON. HOCHARD
2 17
BY GASTON HOCHARD
EN PROVENCE: LES MUSICIENS”