Studio: international art (51.1911)

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PLAQDETTE : BARON GEVAERT BY CH. SAMUEL

appropriate design for a Province which contains
so many technical schools. Since the opening of
the Salon M. Devreese has been able to complete
yet another piece of work, the medal for the
Beaux-Arts. This represents the struggle of man-
kind towards the ideal in art, despite the difficulties
of existence.

Two cases contained the work of the sculptor,
Ch. Samuel; he has executed several remarkable
plaquettes, among others one commissioned by the
Society Royale d’Architecture de Belgique, and

PLAQUETTE. BY CH. SAMUEL

numerous portrait medals and plaquettes, among
which we have chosen for reproduction that of M.
Vergoie, a former Governor of Brabant, of Count
Goblet d’Alviella, and of Baron Gevaert. We had
occasion lately, apropos of this last plaquette, to
refer to the courageous enterprise of the publisher
Fonson, of Brussels, who wishes to perpetuate, in
a series of medals, the names of distinguished
Belgians. The last work published in this way is
a portrait of the poet Max Waller, the founder of
the Jeune-Belgique. M. Devreese has caught the
likeness and engraved admirably the noble and
sympathetic features of the young writer.

Those prolific sculptors of Brussels, P. Dubois
and P. Braecke, M. Devillez, who does such
delicate work, the medallers, F. Dubois and

MEDAL : COUNT GOBLET D’ALVIELLA

BY CH. SAMUEL

PLAQUETTE: M. VERGOTE

BY CH. SAMUEL

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