DOI Heft:
Nr. 211 (October 1910)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20971#0086
Studio-Talk
PARIS.—On very many occa-
sions, in writing of the various
salons, I have been com-
pelled to speak with high
praise of the work of the painter M.
Bernard Boutet de Monvel. This artist
is indeed the one of those of his gen-
eration from whom we expect most.
The portrait which he painted of him-
self standing in a field with his two
greyhounds is one of the finest men’s
portraits painted during the last few
years, for the work is instinct with a
strong personality and very original
talent (see The Studio, June, 1908,
p. 66). But in the case of this artist
we have besides the painter also a
draughtsman and etcher of no less
remarkable ability.
Bernard Boutet de Monvel has been
since his earliest debut passionately
fond of etching, and to-day certain of
his proofs are most scarce owing to
the avidity with which they have been
snapped up by collectors. Sometimes in his etch-
ings Boutet de Monvel depicts scenes of contem-
porary life, but more particularly he loves to
reconstruct and make live again the times of
“ LE DANDY ” (ETCHING IN COLOURS)
BY BERNARD BOUTET DE MONVEL
the Restoration and ot Louis Philippe. The
artist seems to have such wide knowledge of
this period that one is tempted to fancy he must
have lived in the scenes which he depicts with
BY BERNARD BOUTET DE MONVEL
65
“LA TOILETTE” (ETCHING IN COLOURS)
PARIS.—On very many occa-
sions, in writing of the various
salons, I have been com-
pelled to speak with high
praise of the work of the painter M.
Bernard Boutet de Monvel. This artist
is indeed the one of those of his gen-
eration from whom we expect most.
The portrait which he painted of him-
self standing in a field with his two
greyhounds is one of the finest men’s
portraits painted during the last few
years, for the work is instinct with a
strong personality and very original
talent (see The Studio, June, 1908,
p. 66). But in the case of this artist
we have besides the painter also a
draughtsman and etcher of no less
remarkable ability.
Bernard Boutet de Monvel has been
since his earliest debut passionately
fond of etching, and to-day certain of
his proofs are most scarce owing to
the avidity with which they have been
snapped up by collectors. Sometimes in his etch-
ings Boutet de Monvel depicts scenes of contem-
porary life, but more particularly he loves to
reconstruct and make live again the times of
“ LE DANDY ” (ETCHING IN COLOURS)
BY BERNARD BOUTET DE MONVEL
the Restoration and ot Louis Philippe. The
artist seems to have such wide knowledge of
this period that one is tempted to fancy he must
have lived in the scenes which he depicts with
BY BERNARD BOUTET DE MONVEL
65
“LA TOILETTE” (ETCHING IN COLOURS)