Studio: international art (52.1911)

Studio-Talk

here also to a mention of the mother-of-pearl fans,
one of which we reproduce, by M. Georges
Bastand, the silver-work designed by M. Husson
and finely executed by M. Hebrard, and of the
boxes in ivory and in box-wood by M. Clement-
Mere. It is especially in the furniture that the
progress made by our artists is most apparent, and
one noticed first-rate pieces by MM. Lambert,

STAINED GLASS BY PIERRE SELMERSHEIM

Majorelle, an interior by whom we reproduce,
Dufrene, Jallot, Gaillard, Bourgeot, and Selmers-
heim, who was responsible for the interesting piece
of stained glass here illustrated. H. F.

The opening of the Exhibition of English
Pastellists of the Eighteen Century, at the Brunner
Galleries in the Rue Royale on April 7, was the
occasion of a brilliant gathering. Sir Francis
Bertie, the British Ambassador, who was accom-
panied by Lady Bertie, formally declared the
Exhibition open, in the presence of a distinguished
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gathering, which included M. Dujardin-Beaumetz,
Under-Secretary of State for Fine Arts, M. de
Nolhac, President of the Exhibition, the Duchesse
d'Uzes, the Duchesse de Rohan, the Princesse
Lucien Murat, the German and Turkish Ambassa-
dors, the Bavarian Minister, Prince Troubetzkoy,
and Prince de Fiirstenberg. M. de Nolhac, in his
opening address, predicted that the Exhibition
would be a revelation to the French public, who
would thus be afforded, for the first time, an
opportunity of studying a branch of English art
hitherto little known on the Continent. He him-
self had been amazed at the talent displayed in the
works of artists with whose names he was not even
familiar. The Ambassador, in reply, expressed a
hope that the Exhibition might result in a
substantial profit to the two Paris charities for
whose benefit it was organised—the Victoria
Home and the Orphelinat des Arts. The collec-
tion brought together consists of about 170 works,
nearly all of them lent by private owners, among
whom we note the names of the Hon. Claude
Ponsonby, Mrs. O'Neill, Mr. J. H FitzHenry,
Miss Margaret Gould, Baroness Richter, Mr. Glen,
Lords Wallscourt and Weardale, Mr. Ernest
Leggatt, Sir E. D. Lawrence, and Col. Malthus.
The artists represented include Gainsborough,
Raeburn, Lawrence, Downman, John Russell and
his son and two daughters, Francis Cotes, William

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