DOI Heft:
No. 217 (April, 1911)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20972#0255
Studio- Talk
"LA MARE AU BETAIL " (SKETCH) BY HENRI ROUSSEAU
held their sixth exhibition under the Presidency
of M. Gaston La Touche, with their customary
success. It must be admitted that few groups
offer such an interesting collection of pictures.
The leading exponents of the art of water-
colour in England, France and Belgium were
here represented by first-rate works. In Robert
Anning Bell's Rose d'Automne one saw a
reminiscence of Rossettf's muse; Charles Bart-
lett had a picture of Breton girls dancing ; Sir
Alfred East exhibited a sparkling Carneval
espagnol; F. M. Armington had some views of
Bruges; and H. S. Tuke's landscapes and some
pictures by Walter West were also to be noticed
on the walls. Belgium was represented by
beautiful colouring in the works of Cassiers,
Marcette Delaunois and the refined, delicate,
and subtle work of Fernand Khnopff. Lastly,
among the Frenchmen, M. Gaston La Touche,
M. Auburtin, M. Jeanes, and M. Luigini all sent
of their best.
M. Henri Rousseau was known to be one of
our best painters of the East, but the show
he has just held at Georges Petit's showed him
in quite another light. He has endeavoured
now to, depict for us instead of the landscapes
of the Atlas, or of Tell, the calm plains of the
Sarthe, but has infused something of Oriental
glamour into his work, and it is as a colourist
that he has depicted these vast stretches of
country of a grandeur all their own. At the
same time Rousseau, like Troy on and the men
of 1830, is a wonderful painter of cattle. The
vigorous drawing which we reproduce attests
his ability in this direction. H. F.
AN T W E R P.—Theodore Verstraete,
who died some three years ago,
deserves to be remembered on ac-
count of his eminent gifts as a
landscape painter, and all the more so because
in his pursuit of art he had to battle with many
hardships. He was born at Ghent in 1850,
and his parents were people of quite humble
extraction. Originally destined for the stage,
with which both parents were connected, he
displayed early in life a liking for art, and
while yet a youth the desire to become a painter
grew so strong that he was sent to the Antwerp
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"LA MARE AU BETAIL " (SKETCH) BY HENRI ROUSSEAU
held their sixth exhibition under the Presidency
of M. Gaston La Touche, with their customary
success. It must be admitted that few groups
offer such an interesting collection of pictures.
The leading exponents of the art of water-
colour in England, France and Belgium were
here represented by first-rate works. In Robert
Anning Bell's Rose d'Automne one saw a
reminiscence of Rossettf's muse; Charles Bart-
lett had a picture of Breton girls dancing ; Sir
Alfred East exhibited a sparkling Carneval
espagnol; F. M. Armington had some views of
Bruges; and H. S. Tuke's landscapes and some
pictures by Walter West were also to be noticed
on the walls. Belgium was represented by
beautiful colouring in the works of Cassiers,
Marcette Delaunois and the refined, delicate,
and subtle work of Fernand Khnopff. Lastly,
among the Frenchmen, M. Gaston La Touche,
M. Auburtin, M. Jeanes, and M. Luigini all sent
of their best.
M. Henri Rousseau was known to be one of
our best painters of the East, but the show
he has just held at Georges Petit's showed him
in quite another light. He has endeavoured
now to, depict for us instead of the landscapes
of the Atlas, or of Tell, the calm plains of the
Sarthe, but has infused something of Oriental
glamour into his work, and it is as a colourist
that he has depicted these vast stretches of
country of a grandeur all their own. At the
same time Rousseau, like Troy on and the men
of 1830, is a wonderful painter of cattle. The
vigorous drawing which we reproduce attests
his ability in this direction. H. F.
AN T W E R P.—Theodore Verstraete,
who died some three years ago,
deserves to be remembered on ac-
count of his eminent gifts as a
landscape painter, and all the more so because
in his pursuit of art he had to battle with many
hardships. He was born at Ghent in 1850,
and his parents were people of quite humble
extraction. Originally destined for the stage,
with which both parents were connected, he
displayed early in life a liking for art, and
while yet a youth the desire to become a painter
grew so strong that he was sent to the Antwerp
233