DOI Heft:
No. 172 (July, 1907)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20775#0190
Studio-Talk
" EMILIA " BY W. SINTENIS
At present the artist is at work modelling a life-size
figure destined to be executed in marble, of a girl,
sponging herself, which promises fair to excel all
that he has done before. The position resembles
in some degree, the antique Venus accroupie. His
first solution of the problem was made in Brussels,
but it did not quite satisfy him. Now he attacks
it a second time, and is attaining to a greater har-
mony of movement and to a more lucid simplifica-
tion of forms than ever before. H. W. S.
PARIS.—Following the precedent of last
year, the Societe Nationale des Beaux-
Arts has organised a retrospective
exhibition at the Pavilion de Bagatelle,
comprising this time a collection of feminine
portraits by past and present members of the
Society. Containing, as it does, many fine things,
the exhibition is certainly a pleasing one, but the
majority of the pictures shown are still fresh in
everyone's memory, having figured at comparatively
recent Salons ; not a few of them, moreover, are
quite demode, and to appreciate them one must
hark back some twenty or thirty years.
Having made these reservations, let us pause
awhile before some very fine canvases of Gustave
Ricard—not, however, without expressing some
surprise at finding him here at all, seeing that
160
he died long before the Nationale was founded.
This worthy descendant of the great Venetians is
well represented by his famous portrait of Mme.
Charles Roux, and, amongst other morceaux, an
altogether remarkable study. Neither did Winter-
halter belong to the Nationale, but we are none
the less pleased to see his portraits of the Empress
Eugenie and the Duchesse de Morny. The three
generations of the Dubufes are represented by
works which have a great interest for us ; then there
is Cabanel, mediocre and out of date ; Chasserieau,
BUST IN TINTED WAX BY W. SINTENIS
refined and poetic; Chaplin, somewhat doucereux
at times, but possessing certain qualities of softness
and charm ; Courbet, whose great power of expres-
sion is seen in his portrait of Marie Crocq; and
finally Bastien-Lepage, who is represented by a
portrait worthy of the greatest. Of Manet and
Berthe Morisot I find no item that reveals any-
thing of significance; and as to works by living
artists, most of them have, as already stated,
figured in recent Salons, and do not call for further
comment here.
It was a happy idea of M. Loys Delteil, the
well-known engraver and biographer of Daumier,
to organise an exhibition of the great caricaturist's
works at the Rosenberg galleries. Last year M.
Delteil took a leading part in arranging the Zorn
" EMILIA " BY W. SINTENIS
At present the artist is at work modelling a life-size
figure destined to be executed in marble, of a girl,
sponging herself, which promises fair to excel all
that he has done before. The position resembles
in some degree, the antique Venus accroupie. His
first solution of the problem was made in Brussels,
but it did not quite satisfy him. Now he attacks
it a second time, and is attaining to a greater har-
mony of movement and to a more lucid simplifica-
tion of forms than ever before. H. W. S.
PARIS.—Following the precedent of last
year, the Societe Nationale des Beaux-
Arts has organised a retrospective
exhibition at the Pavilion de Bagatelle,
comprising this time a collection of feminine
portraits by past and present members of the
Society. Containing, as it does, many fine things,
the exhibition is certainly a pleasing one, but the
majority of the pictures shown are still fresh in
everyone's memory, having figured at comparatively
recent Salons ; not a few of them, moreover, are
quite demode, and to appreciate them one must
hark back some twenty or thirty years.
Having made these reservations, let us pause
awhile before some very fine canvases of Gustave
Ricard—not, however, without expressing some
surprise at finding him here at all, seeing that
160
he died long before the Nationale was founded.
This worthy descendant of the great Venetians is
well represented by his famous portrait of Mme.
Charles Roux, and, amongst other morceaux, an
altogether remarkable study. Neither did Winter-
halter belong to the Nationale, but we are none
the less pleased to see his portraits of the Empress
Eugenie and the Duchesse de Morny. The three
generations of the Dubufes are represented by
works which have a great interest for us ; then there
is Cabanel, mediocre and out of date ; Chasserieau,
BUST IN TINTED WAX BY W. SINTENIS
refined and poetic; Chaplin, somewhat doucereux
at times, but possessing certain qualities of softness
and charm ; Courbet, whose great power of expres-
sion is seen in his portrait of Marie Crocq; and
finally Bastien-Lepage, who is represented by a
portrait worthy of the greatest. Of Manet and
Berthe Morisot I find no item that reveals any-
thing of significance; and as to works by living
artists, most of them have, as already stated,
figured in recent Salons, and do not call for further
comment here.
It was a happy idea of M. Loys Delteil, the
well-known engraver and biographer of Daumier,
to organise an exhibition of the great caricaturist's
works at the Rosenberg galleries. Last year M.
Delteil took a leading part in arranging the Zorn