DOI Heft:
Nr. 219 (June 1911)
DOI Artikel:Frantz, Henri: The salon of the Société nationale des beaux-arts, Paris
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20973#0063
The Salon of the Societd Nationale
Rene Billotte, one of our best landscapists, and of the Liberator of the Argentine Republic ; the
the American, Jules Stewart, whose portraits always artist has produced a most vigorous work, and one
command attention. which lends itself admirably to reproduction as
It is the very large pictures which first attract a Gobelin tapestry. In the centre of the compo-
notice as one enters the vast rooms in the Grand sition is seen the famous General mounted on a
Palais, and for this reason, that while the pictures powerful and fiery charger, in the forefront of a
of smaller dimensions are to be found in little battle, while above his head two figures of Victory
exhibitions, these huge works are only to be seen are painted with fine decorative effect. Behind the
at the Salon. I shall devote some space here to a Liberator's horse M. Roll has ' most happily
consideration of these large pieces of painting, depicted the lines of soldier's who march, full of
The two most important ones bear the signature of enthusiasm, to victory. For the decorative sur-
M. Besnard and M. Rene Menard. The latter roundings of the panel M. Roll has taken trees and
has executed for the Savings Bank at Marseilles a plants of the tropics as his motif, and has treated
very fine and beautiful work which we reproduce, them with fine effect of harmonious colour.
Here we have one of those great and noble M. Caro-Delvaille always succeeds in arousing our
classical landscapes of which this artist holds the wonder by the admirable manner in which he treats
secret. The work is one of extreme harmony and the nude. His picture is a classical composition,
beauty, and is one that
should live to prove to
posterity that, despite the
numerous ugly and inap-
propriate decorations to be
found in public buildings
and monuments, there have
been artists who have known
how to blend with the
modern spirit in their work
something of the sane and
high classical tradition.
M. Besnard exhibits a big
ceiling for the Theatre
Francais, painted with all
his fine qualities as a
colourist and decorative
artist, but the work does
not gain by being seen so
close, or by being hung like
an ordinary picture, instead
of being seen high up and
from below. This must ex-
plain why the public has
not comprehended M.
Besnard's luminous com-
position, to which I hope
we may return when it is
placed in its proper position
and may be seen with proper
lighting.
M. Alfred Roll, the
Society's eminent President,
has been commissioned by
the Manufacture des Gobe-
lins to execute a large
panel glorifying San-Martin, " la lecon de clavecin " by j. a. muenier
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Rene Billotte, one of our best landscapists, and of the Liberator of the Argentine Republic ; the
the American, Jules Stewart, whose portraits always artist has produced a most vigorous work, and one
command attention. which lends itself admirably to reproduction as
It is the very large pictures which first attract a Gobelin tapestry. In the centre of the compo-
notice as one enters the vast rooms in the Grand sition is seen the famous General mounted on a
Palais, and for this reason, that while the pictures powerful and fiery charger, in the forefront of a
of smaller dimensions are to be found in little battle, while above his head two figures of Victory
exhibitions, these huge works are only to be seen are painted with fine decorative effect. Behind the
at the Salon. I shall devote some space here to a Liberator's horse M. Roll has ' most happily
consideration of these large pieces of painting, depicted the lines of soldier's who march, full of
The two most important ones bear the signature of enthusiasm, to victory. For the decorative sur-
M. Besnard and M. Rene Menard. The latter roundings of the panel M. Roll has taken trees and
has executed for the Savings Bank at Marseilles a plants of the tropics as his motif, and has treated
very fine and beautiful work which we reproduce, them with fine effect of harmonious colour.
Here we have one of those great and noble M. Caro-Delvaille always succeeds in arousing our
classical landscapes of which this artist holds the wonder by the admirable manner in which he treats
secret. The work is one of extreme harmony and the nude. His picture is a classical composition,
beauty, and is one that
should live to prove to
posterity that, despite the
numerous ugly and inap-
propriate decorations to be
found in public buildings
and monuments, there have
been artists who have known
how to blend with the
modern spirit in their work
something of the sane and
high classical tradition.
M. Besnard exhibits a big
ceiling for the Theatre
Francais, painted with all
his fine qualities as a
colourist and decorative
artist, but the work does
not gain by being seen so
close, or by being hung like
an ordinary picture, instead
of being seen high up and
from below. This must ex-
plain why the public has
not comprehended M.
Besnard's luminous com-
position, to which I hope
we may return when it is
placed in its proper position
and may be seen with proper
lighting.
M. Alfred Roll, the
Society's eminent President,
has been commissioned by
the Manufacture des Gobe-
lins to execute a large
panel glorifying San-Martin, " la lecon de clavecin " by j. a. muenier
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