Studio: international art (49.1910)

The Socidte des Peintres et Sculpteurs

“BELLE JOURNEE” BY GASTON LA TOUCHE

In particular I must mention Le Bateau de Hollande,
his mill at Damme, his Accalmie sur le Canal., his
Vue de Dordrecht, all of which charmed one by their
exquisite setting. There is no doubt that M.
Ulmann is to-day one of our leading landscape
painters. The variety of this artist’s work is not
the least of his merits; he does not slavishly fetter
himself to any formula, but depicts with the
greatest fidelity the varied characteristics of Dutch
landscape just as the subject appeals to him.

M. Rodin, the distinguished president of the
society, was represented by six works. His bust
of M. Alphonse Legros, whose fine strong head is
depicted as leaning pensively forward, shows all
the fine qualities of execution of the sculptor’s
best work. This work was immediately acquired
by the State, and will represent this great artist
this summer at the Brussels International Exhibi-
tion. The beautiful, rather reddish, patina of this
piece, is particularly worthy of notice.

The bust of the Due de Rohan was another
piece of sure technique and great fidelity to the
model. This work was shown in the plaster and
has not yet received its definite form. Another
plaster was the bust of Mr. Thomas Ryan, and two
little pieces in marble, too modestly catalogued as
“ studies ” completed M. Rodin’s contribution.

M. Gaston Schnegg was represented by two
excellent statuettes in bronze, and M. Lucien
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Schnegg by two marbles. Mile. Jane Poupelet,
who recently joined the group, gained for herself in
the exhibition a place in the fore front. She endues
her work, two pieces of which she showed, with a
kind of antique elegance, to which is added ex-
ceeding dexterity of handling.

Nothing could have been more full of life than
the little statuettes of Prince Paul Troubetzkoi,
always so appreciated by the discerning members
of the public. I must mention the portrait of the
Grand Duke Paul, the portraits of M. Errazuriz
and of his daughter, and that of Professor Pozzi.
In the sculpture section also there was an excellent
bust of the charming landscape painter, Billotte,
by M. Albert Despian, and a bust in marble by
M. Eugene Lagare. H. F.

At a General Meeting of the Royal British
Colonial Society of Artists, held on April 4th, Mr.
Holman Hunt, O.M., and Sir Henry Cunynghame,
K.C.B., were elected hon. members of the Society.
Messrs. Ernest George, P.R.I.B.A., A.R.A., H. C.
Corlette, F.R.I.B.A., E. R. Hughes, R.W.S., A. K.
Brown, R.S.A., Edgar Bundy, R.I., T. Austen
Brown, A.R.S.A., and J. H. Lorimer, R.S.A.,
A.R.W.S., were elected Members; and Messrs.
VV. H. Y. Titcomb, J. Shaw Crompton, R.I., B.
Eastlake Leader, and St. George Hare, R.I., were
made Associates.