Studio: international art (59.1913)

The Salon of the Societe Nationale, Pans

his usual work, he affirms himself the ardent inquirer
that we know him to be; and lastly he exhibits
a very beautiful work representing a family of
mourners, which approaches in the depth of its
sentiment and its sobriety to those fine works of this
painter’s first, though perhaps rather sombre
manner. Cottet comes back this year to Brittany.
His cortege of women weeping before their burned
church is a magnificent piece of work which com-
pletes the artist’s cycle of Breton pictures, while
his view of a little sea-port town (Port de
Douarnenez) is no less a fine piece of colour.

M. Aman-Jean is himself well represented by one
of those portrait groups in which he depicts,
enveloped in the circumambient atmosphere and
bathed in the softest light, the meditative figures of
his sitters, whom he invests as it were with a
profound spiritual life. Two large panels com-

missioned by the Musee des Arts Decoratifs also
figure among his contributions.

M. de la Gandara has this year renounced the
painting of fair Parisiennes, and turned to a subject
which has for a long time appealed to him. His
Don Quichotte is a curious interpretation [of
Cervantes’ hero who has so frequently inspired
different artists, and in this work we find the
painter’s customary qualities expressed with even
more force and vigour.

What of the portraits ? Those of M. de Laszlo
are of first rank and indeed they proclaim once again
that the painter is in this realm of art the master, or
one of the masters, of the present day. What
finesse in the colouring! What spirited drawing, so
light and yet so faithful! M. Boldini is always
the dexterous artist that we know him to be, and
one of the recognised painters of the Parisienne ; he