DOI issue:
No. 195 (June, 1909)
DOI article:Frantz, Henri: The salon of the société nationale des beaux arts, Paris
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20967#0068
The Salon of the Societe Nationale, Paris
If these three large decorative paintings are
those which most forcibly attract one’s notice,
though by very different characters, — Menard
tracing the continuity of classicism, Besnard allied
to the traditions of the decorative artists of the
eighteenth century, and Auburtin worthily carrying
on the style of Puvis—there are still other works
which deserve our attention and even our admira-
tion, even though they do not display such pro-
nounced styles. So one finds much charm and
gracefulness in the panel by M. Roll, the Society’s
distinguished President: also in the Euite en Egypte
painted for a church by Madame Wehrle with
touching sentiment; a decided feeling for the
picturesque in the work of M. de la Neziere, Les
Eeligions de /Inde; a dramatic power in the
Episode de 1870, by M. Pierre Lagarde; and
charming drawing in the portrait of Mme. Delarue
Mardrus, by M. Hubert de la Rochefoucauld.
The large painting by M. Gillot, Pr}s la Mme—
St. Etienne, deserves more than a mere mention,
for it is the work of a member of the Nationale in
whose talents I have the greatest confidence.
Gillot is a delightful painter of Paris, and the
possessor of pronounced individuality; and this
individuality asserts itself in every piece of work
he does. When commissioned to paint a decora-
tive panel for the town of St. Etienne, he was quite
equal to depict with his own palette one of those
subjects dear to Constantine Meunier or Jules
Adler. One finds here in Gillot’s strong and firm
work, so exquisite and yet so simple, despite the
sad severity of the subject, ringing harmonies, such
as in the reds of certain of the clothes of the workers
dimly seen through the fog or in the glare from
the locomotives and from the factory on the left of
the picture.
The panel by M. Aman-Jean pleased me much,
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“SUR LE PONT DES SAINTS-PfcRES ”
46
BY GASTON LA TOUCHE
If these three large decorative paintings are
those which most forcibly attract one’s notice,
though by very different characters, — Menard
tracing the continuity of classicism, Besnard allied
to the traditions of the decorative artists of the
eighteenth century, and Auburtin worthily carrying
on the style of Puvis—there are still other works
which deserve our attention and even our admira-
tion, even though they do not display such pro-
nounced styles. So one finds much charm and
gracefulness in the panel by M. Roll, the Society’s
distinguished President: also in the Euite en Egypte
painted for a church by Madame Wehrle with
touching sentiment; a decided feeling for the
picturesque in the work of M. de la Neziere, Les
Eeligions de /Inde; a dramatic power in the
Episode de 1870, by M. Pierre Lagarde; and
charming drawing in the portrait of Mme. Delarue
Mardrus, by M. Hubert de la Rochefoucauld.
The large painting by M. Gillot, Pr}s la Mme—
St. Etienne, deserves more than a mere mention,
for it is the work of a member of the Nationale in
whose talents I have the greatest confidence.
Gillot is a delightful painter of Paris, and the
possessor of pronounced individuality; and this
individuality asserts itself in every piece of work
he does. When commissioned to paint a decora-
tive panel for the town of St. Etienne, he was quite
equal to depict with his own palette one of those
subjects dear to Constantine Meunier or Jules
Adler. One finds here in Gillot’s strong and firm
work, so exquisite and yet so simple, despite the
sad severity of the subject, ringing harmonies, such
as in the reds of certain of the clothes of the workers
dimly seen through the fog or in the glare from
the locomotives and from the factory on the left of
the picture.
The panel by M. Aman-Jean pleased me much,
f''
“SUR LE PONT DES SAINTS-PfcRES ”
46
BY GASTON LA TOUCHE