DOI issue:
Nr. 207 (June 1910)
DOI article:Frantz, Henri: Some notable pictures at the new salon in Paris
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20970#0056
Pictures at the New Salon
M. Aman-Jean has talent and technique both
eminently personal; he is in love with middle tones,
and knows better than anyone how to place in a
pretty decorative landscape female figures har-
moniously clad in light and supple draperies. His
is a talent of sweetness much more than force, the
delicate idealism of which, however, appears to my
eyes to be invested with great charm. His picture
this year is called La Collation, and forms another
of a series of decorations destined for the Mus£e
des Arts Decoratifs, in which M. Aman-Jean
already figures in some important works. This
last is equally successful.
M. Rene Menard, after his great effort of last
year, is contenting himself with showing some pic-
tures of small dimensions. Is there any need for
me to say that these are marked with that character
of classic perfection which is ever present in even
the smallest picture from M. Menard’s brush ? I
was exceedingly pleased with his Hylas, a noble
landscape of warm and beautiful colour.
M. Jacques Blanche is exceedingly well repre-
sented this year, for besides some very fine por-
traits hung on the first floor at the Grand Palais, a
special room on the ground floor has been reserved
for his work. The visitors to the Salon can
here pass a delightful hour studying one by one
the productions of this great artist, one of the most
personal and most varied of the contemporary
French school of painting.
Among the landscapes hung in the Salon there
is one that is unrivalled—the view of the Place de
Moret during the recent floods, by J. F. Raffaelli,
one of the finest works of a kind we have been
accustomed to see with pleasure for a long time-.
I noted also the exhibit of M. Lemordant, who
is making great progress. He is a young man on
whom the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts can
count with confidence.
In conclusion let me say that it would not be
fair to assert that all interest in the Salon depends
upon the works I have enumerated, for besides
them one finds numerous other excellent things.
But those I have spoken of in detail are the out-
standing and finest pieces which the exhibition
offers. Henri Frantz.
“ LA COLLATION ’’
34
BY AMAN-JEAN
M. Aman-Jean has talent and technique both
eminently personal; he is in love with middle tones,
and knows better than anyone how to place in a
pretty decorative landscape female figures har-
moniously clad in light and supple draperies. His
is a talent of sweetness much more than force, the
delicate idealism of which, however, appears to my
eyes to be invested with great charm. His picture
this year is called La Collation, and forms another
of a series of decorations destined for the Mus£e
des Arts Decoratifs, in which M. Aman-Jean
already figures in some important works. This
last is equally successful.
M. Rene Menard, after his great effort of last
year, is contenting himself with showing some pic-
tures of small dimensions. Is there any need for
me to say that these are marked with that character
of classic perfection which is ever present in even
the smallest picture from M. Menard’s brush ? I
was exceedingly pleased with his Hylas, a noble
landscape of warm and beautiful colour.
M. Jacques Blanche is exceedingly well repre-
sented this year, for besides some very fine por-
traits hung on the first floor at the Grand Palais, a
special room on the ground floor has been reserved
for his work. The visitors to the Salon can
here pass a delightful hour studying one by one
the productions of this great artist, one of the most
personal and most varied of the contemporary
French school of painting.
Among the landscapes hung in the Salon there
is one that is unrivalled—the view of the Place de
Moret during the recent floods, by J. F. Raffaelli,
one of the finest works of a kind we have been
accustomed to see with pleasure for a long time-.
I noted also the exhibit of M. Lemordant, who
is making great progress. He is a young man on
whom the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts can
count with confidence.
In conclusion let me say that it would not be
fair to assert that all interest in the Salon depends
upon the works I have enumerated, for besides
them one finds numerous other excellent things.
But those I have spoken of in detail are the out-
standing and finest pieces which the exhibition
offers. Henri Frantz.
“ LA COLLATION ’’
34
BY AMAN-JEAN