Studio: international art (42.1908)

Studio- Talk

in that light which is pecu-
liar to the Highlands ;
magnificent cedars whose
uncommon shapes he excels
in delineating after the
Japanese manner; old
castles reminding one of
the novels of Sir Walter
Scott, peaceful villages
beneath clear, smiling skies
—all rendered in pure
water-colour with much
sincerity of vision and
freshness of sentiment.

M. Hessele has done
much to develop in Prance
a taste for modern etching,
and we owe to him our
knowledge of some of the
" village dans les dunes " by j. c. cazin best among contemporary

workers in this field. In
continuation of his good

of colour his Vague, an example of his extreme work he has recently been showing in the Rue
accuracy of observation, is a tour de force. Very Laffitte some etchings by four artists who, though
charming, too, are his glimpses of autumn, with little known at present, are assuredly possessed of
big trees in their russet tints beneath a pale undoubted talent. M. Heyman, who has a remark-
sky. M. Eugene Bejot has executed in wash able eye for composition, concerns himself with
fifty-two little views of the Paris he knows so well, reproducing the features of certain monuments in
and they were at once attractive in point of the environs of Paris. His Abside de I'Aglise de
technique and admirable as documents. The rIsle-Adam is an excellent performance, and no
water-colours of M. Lebasque seemed to me a less so is his Vieille Porte d Menneville. Mr.
little wanting in definiteness, while at the same Andrew F. Affleck, a Scottish artist, is enamoured

time giving evidence of a true feeling for colour, of Tuscany. His Ponte - Vecchio, his Tour de

Amongst the foreign contributors, M.Hagemans was Giotto, and his San Gimignano are plates which

represented by some capital landscapes7

with animals ; von Bartels, by a domestic

scene, lit up by the flames from the fire ;

M. Cadenhead, by a night effect; and

M. Ertz, by a Spanish woman carrying

water. Nor must we forget to mention

the contributions of M. Thornley, a

charming colourist; and those of M.

Delestre and M. Paul Frachet.

Two years ago M. Augustin Rey, the
distinguished architect of the Fondation
Rothschild, showed at Petit's a series
of water-colours executed in the Upper
Engadine, and now quite recently he has
been showing at the same gallery another
series. This time transporting us to
Scotland, he here shows us lochs bathed vases by moreau-nelaton

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