DOI issue:
No. 223 (October 1911)
DOI article:Frantz, Henri: A great french landscape painter: Jean Charles Cazin
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21155#0026
Jean Charles Cazin
of Impressionism. Among such are Jongkind, considering him an artist of the first rank, but his
Boudin, and Lepine, three fine artists who were work not really justifying the glory thus thrust
unfortunately not understood and appreciated for upon him, we look upon it to-day from the stand-
many years, but whose achievements are now day point of those who, at the Paris Art Sales, have
by day more justly appraised. Another such is the assisted in the depopularising of the kind of art
great master, Jean Charles Cazin. associated with his name.
Last spring was completed the tenth year since This is never the case with a man like Cazin whose
Cazin's death. Ten years ! This is surely a talent is entirely the product of artistic power and
sufficient lapse of time to permit of an unbiased truth, and in whose reputation there is nothing in
and dispassionate judgment being passed upon an the smallest degree meretricious. To such a one
artist's work. As the years roll by, this painter im- each year adds a little more glory and the flight of
presses one more and more by his magnificent time serves only to confirm him in his place as
qualities. How many talented men there have been one of the eternal masters of the art of painting,
whose value we have exaggerated during their life- In writing the name of Jean Charles Cazin, the
time, while we dispraise them and depreciate their fine, noble figure of the man rises before me in my
abilities after their death ! Consider, for instance, memory. I see him again in the imagination, the
the case of Meissonnier. He was undoubtedly an master such as he was when he used to come to
exceedingly able " petit maitre," and one who the Societe Nationale, of which he was always one
ought by no means to be neglected in a considera- of the most influential and most respected
tion of the history of French painting, by reason of members. He was a man of medium height; he
his qualities of finesse and precision. But fashion had the large and well-developed forehead which
raised him in general estimation to the extent of betokens a thoughtful character, and wore his hair
"CULTURES (SEINE-ET-MARNE) " BY J. C. CAZIN
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of Impressionism. Among such are Jongkind, considering him an artist of the first rank, but his
Boudin, and Lepine, three fine artists who were work not really justifying the glory thus thrust
unfortunately not understood and appreciated for upon him, we look upon it to-day from the stand-
many years, but whose achievements are now day point of those who, at the Paris Art Sales, have
by day more justly appraised. Another such is the assisted in the depopularising of the kind of art
great master, Jean Charles Cazin. associated with his name.
Last spring was completed the tenth year since This is never the case with a man like Cazin whose
Cazin's death. Ten years ! This is surely a talent is entirely the product of artistic power and
sufficient lapse of time to permit of an unbiased truth, and in whose reputation there is nothing in
and dispassionate judgment being passed upon an the smallest degree meretricious. To such a one
artist's work. As the years roll by, this painter im- each year adds a little more glory and the flight of
presses one more and more by his magnificent time serves only to confirm him in his place as
qualities. How many talented men there have been one of the eternal masters of the art of painting,
whose value we have exaggerated during their life- In writing the name of Jean Charles Cazin, the
time, while we dispraise them and depreciate their fine, noble figure of the man rises before me in my
abilities after their death ! Consider, for instance, memory. I see him again in the imagination, the
the case of Meissonnier. He was undoubtedly an master such as he was when he used to come to
exceedingly able " petit maitre," and one who the Societe Nationale, of which he was always one
ought by no means to be neglected in a considera- of the most influential and most respected
tion of the history of French painting, by reason of members. He was a man of medium height; he
his qualities of finesse and precision. But fashion had the large and well-developed forehead which
raised him in general estimation to the extent of betokens a thoughtful character, and wore his hair
"CULTURES (SEINE-ET-MARNE) " BY J. C. CAZIN
4