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No. 253 (May 1914)
DOI Artikel:Reviews and notices
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21209#0348
Reviews and Notices
cross, is seen at Sikandrah, where the tomb of Akbar,
the grandson of Babar, the Mughal Emperor who
introduced the formal garden into India in the six-
teenth century, forms the centre of the plan, while
on each side of it are tanks with fountains supplying
the water for the narrow canals which once ran
down the centre of the raised stone pathways.
Watercourses and fountains were indeed an all
important feature of Indian formal gardens, the
finest of which, or their ruins, are found in beautiful
situations centring round a hill-side spring. And
it is also clear from the author's descriptions that
the Indian garden, whether in the hills or in the
plains, partook to a far greater degree than the
European gardens of the character of an outdoor
dwelling-place, and in fact was regarded as an
organic part of the house itself. The volume is abun-
dantly illustrated by reproductions of illuminated
pages from Oriental manuscripts, by plans of many
of the gardens, and by drawings in colour and black-
and-white made by the author herself of gardens
and details as now existing.
The Gospel Story in Art. By John La Farge.
(London: Macmillan and Co.) \$s. net.—In
the preface to this volume we learn that the pro-
duction of such a work as this was a cherished
project of La Farge's many years before the present
volume was actually begun. Death, alas! inter-
vened before the text could be subjected to the
careful revision La Farge would have wished to
bestow upon it. " Born and educated in the older
faith of Christendom, he brought to his task not
only the reverence of a believer, but also full
knowledge of the widely different forms through
which the life of Christ has been expressed by
artists." Accompanying the text are eighty full-
page reproductions in half-tone of some of the
great masterpieces of religious painting.
An Illustrated Catalogue of the Second National
Loan Exhibition, IQ13--14 : Woman and Child in
Art. Compiled by Francis Howard. (London :
W. Heinemann.) £2 2s. net.—The National Loan
Exhibitions of which the second, recently held at the
Grosvenor Gallery, furnishes the subject-matter of
this catalogue, have been organised with the praise-
worthy object of creating a fund for the acquisition
of contemporary British works for the National
Collections, and the movement has been generously
supported by owners of precious works of art,
including members of the Royal family and many
titled personages. The collection shown at the
Grosvenor Gallery comprised one hundred and
twenty-four items, and apart from the intrinsic in-
terest of the individual works the assemblage as a
whole was of peculiar value and importance as illus-
trating the diversity of methods employed by artists
of various nationalities and periods in the treat-
ment of subjects having the kinship implied by
the title " Woman and Child." A description of
each exhibited work is given in the catalogue, and
accompanying the letterpress are no fewer than sixty
full-page photogravure plates, so that besides being
of considerable documentary value—for as things
now are it is possible that many of the paintings
gathered together on this occasion may some day
pass into other hands and perhaps out of the
country altogether—the volume is in a high degree
attractive as a picture book.
Mary Cassatt: Un peintre des Enfants et des
Meres. By Achille Segard. (Paris : Librairie
Ollendorff.) 5 francs.—Mons. Achille Segard is
an art critic of very fine perception, and his valued
contributions to the pages of The Studio from time
to time have served, we trust, to make his always
illuminating writing appreciated in this country as
well as in his native France. He has given us in
this volume a very able and discriminating appre-
ciation of the work of Miss Mary Cassatt. The
now well known and widely admired art of this very
interesting painter—American by birth, French by
adoption—finds literary interpretation in the enthu-
siastic and sympathetic eulogies of M. Segard,
whose text is illustrated by a number of half-tone
reproductions of her beautiful paintings of women
and children, always so full of style and so refined
in technique. As frontispiece is reproduced a
photograph of Miss Cassatt taken about a year ago
—the first since very early days. The portraits of
her made by Degas about the year 1879 and by
Pissarro a little later have, it seems, been destroyed
or lost sight of.
The sixth annual volume of Art Prices Current,
containing the records of sales during the season
1912-13 (October to July), shows an increase in
bulk to the extent of forty pages over the preceding
volume, owing to the large number of etchings and
engravings which came into the market, the indexes
of these alone filling more than one hundred and
thirty pages. As before, the sales are set forth in
order of date and catalogue sequence, and these
are followed by separate indexes for drawings,
pictures, and engravings. In addition to the sales
at Christie's, those at Messrs. Sotheby's and Messrs.
Puttick and Simpson's have been laid under
contribution. The volume has been carefully
edited by Mr. G. Ingram Smyth, and is issued in a
neat cloth binding at £1 is. net by the Fine Art
Trade Journal.
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cross, is seen at Sikandrah, where the tomb of Akbar,
the grandson of Babar, the Mughal Emperor who
introduced the formal garden into India in the six-
teenth century, forms the centre of the plan, while
on each side of it are tanks with fountains supplying
the water for the narrow canals which once ran
down the centre of the raised stone pathways.
Watercourses and fountains were indeed an all
important feature of Indian formal gardens, the
finest of which, or their ruins, are found in beautiful
situations centring round a hill-side spring. And
it is also clear from the author's descriptions that
the Indian garden, whether in the hills or in the
plains, partook to a far greater degree than the
European gardens of the character of an outdoor
dwelling-place, and in fact was regarded as an
organic part of the house itself. The volume is abun-
dantly illustrated by reproductions of illuminated
pages from Oriental manuscripts, by plans of many
of the gardens, and by drawings in colour and black-
and-white made by the author herself of gardens
and details as now existing.
The Gospel Story in Art. By John La Farge.
(London: Macmillan and Co.) \$s. net.—In
the preface to this volume we learn that the pro-
duction of such a work as this was a cherished
project of La Farge's many years before the present
volume was actually begun. Death, alas! inter-
vened before the text could be subjected to the
careful revision La Farge would have wished to
bestow upon it. " Born and educated in the older
faith of Christendom, he brought to his task not
only the reverence of a believer, but also full
knowledge of the widely different forms through
which the life of Christ has been expressed by
artists." Accompanying the text are eighty full-
page reproductions in half-tone of some of the
great masterpieces of religious painting.
An Illustrated Catalogue of the Second National
Loan Exhibition, IQ13--14 : Woman and Child in
Art. Compiled by Francis Howard. (London :
W. Heinemann.) £2 2s. net.—The National Loan
Exhibitions of which the second, recently held at the
Grosvenor Gallery, furnishes the subject-matter of
this catalogue, have been organised with the praise-
worthy object of creating a fund for the acquisition
of contemporary British works for the National
Collections, and the movement has been generously
supported by owners of precious works of art,
including members of the Royal family and many
titled personages. The collection shown at the
Grosvenor Gallery comprised one hundred and
twenty-four items, and apart from the intrinsic in-
terest of the individual works the assemblage as a
whole was of peculiar value and importance as illus-
trating the diversity of methods employed by artists
of various nationalities and periods in the treat-
ment of subjects having the kinship implied by
the title " Woman and Child." A description of
each exhibited work is given in the catalogue, and
accompanying the letterpress are no fewer than sixty
full-page photogravure plates, so that besides being
of considerable documentary value—for as things
now are it is possible that many of the paintings
gathered together on this occasion may some day
pass into other hands and perhaps out of the
country altogether—the volume is in a high degree
attractive as a picture book.
Mary Cassatt: Un peintre des Enfants et des
Meres. By Achille Segard. (Paris : Librairie
Ollendorff.) 5 francs.—Mons. Achille Segard is
an art critic of very fine perception, and his valued
contributions to the pages of The Studio from time
to time have served, we trust, to make his always
illuminating writing appreciated in this country as
well as in his native France. He has given us in
this volume a very able and discriminating appre-
ciation of the work of Miss Mary Cassatt. The
now well known and widely admired art of this very
interesting painter—American by birth, French by
adoption—finds literary interpretation in the enthu-
siastic and sympathetic eulogies of M. Segard,
whose text is illustrated by a number of half-tone
reproductions of her beautiful paintings of women
and children, always so full of style and so refined
in technique. As frontispiece is reproduced a
photograph of Miss Cassatt taken about a year ago
—the first since very early days. The portraits of
her made by Degas about the year 1879 and by
Pissarro a little later have, it seems, been destroyed
or lost sight of.
The sixth annual volume of Art Prices Current,
containing the records of sales during the season
1912-13 (October to July), shows an increase in
bulk to the extent of forty pages over the preceding
volume, owing to the large number of etchings and
engravings which came into the market, the indexes
of these alone filling more than one hundred and
thirty pages. As before, the sales are set forth in
order of date and catalogue sequence, and these
are followed by separate indexes for drawings,
pictures, and engravings. In addition to the sales
at Christie's, those at Messrs. Sotheby's and Messrs.
Puttick and Simpson's have been laid under
contribution. The volume has been carefully
edited by Mr. G. Ingram Smyth, and is issued in a
neat cloth binding at £1 is. net by the Fine Art
Trade Journal.
34i