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the most characteristic sur-
roundings of our day, —
from the Academie fran-
chise, with its refined and
elegant public, to rustic
village fetes; and draws
equally well, with the same
affection, the same truth to
life, the peasant in sabots
or the exquisite at a var-
nishing day at Petit's. The
opera, the Tuileries gardens,
the parade at Longchamps,
the races, the big balls of
the 14th July, a coursing
meeting, the great man-
oeuvres, the Exhibition in
London, a parade ground
with Prussian officers, these
are some of the subjects
rendered with such masterly
skill by this excellent artist.
In another series of works
Hochard exhibited some
pictures of small towns and
old houses the picturesque-
ness and style of which
were exceedingly pleasing.

PORTRAIT OF FRAU THERESE LIEBERMANN BY ANTOON VAN WELIB

published book on " The Science of Picture
Making" shows him to be a man of broad
views and well-balanced judgment.

PARIS.—M. Gaston Hochard, whose
work and talents have been already
studied in The Studio in an article
in the April number, 1907, from
the pen of our friend Octave Uzanne, lately
held, in the Druet galleries, an exhibition of
his dessins rehausses,—a most charming col-
lection of works essentially alive and real,
from the hand of a bold and vigorous draughts-
man. It is impossible not to admire the art
with which Gaston Hochard, with no other
medium than black-and-white, conveys the
impression of the richest colour. At the same
time he excels in delineating with the greatest
fidelity different types, silhouettes, the physiog-
nomy, and truly he deserves that title, which
Baudelaire justly bestowed upon Guys under
the Second Empire, of painter of modern
life. Hochard wanders, pencil in hand, among (By permission of M. Druet)

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' AU SALON " BY G. HOCHARD