Studio- Talk
" une battue en campine " by theodore verstraete
Academy, then under the directorship of Nicaise and old engravings ! To vary the procedure a
de Keyser. Theodore's bent was towards land- few studio " properties " were sometimes brought
scape painting, but to gain gold and glory in out—an old wheelbarrow, some weather-worn
this branch of art at that date it was not con- bricks, a stump of a tree, and a few stuffed
sidered necessary to study nature—sweetly pretty birds. Among the students, however, were
landscapes could be composed from other pictures some who rebelled against this debasing curri-
' coin d'etang
234
by theodore verstraete
" une battue en campine " by theodore verstraete
Academy, then under the directorship of Nicaise and old engravings ! To vary the procedure a
de Keyser. Theodore's bent was towards land- few studio " properties " were sometimes brought
scape painting, but to gain gold and glory in out—an old wheelbarrow, some weather-worn
this branch of art at that date it was not con- bricks, a stump of a tree, and a few stuffed
sidered necessary to study nature—sweetly pretty birds. Among the students, however, were
landscapes could be composed from other pictures some who rebelled against this debasing curri-
' coin d'etang
234
by theodore verstraete