Studio: international art (78.1919)

REVIEWS

FRESCO PAINTING IN THE CHURCH
OF SAN ANTONIO DE LA FLORIDA
BY FRANCISCO GOYA Y LUCIENTES

have been his model for his most famous
pictures—the Maja vestita and the Maja
desnuda—now in the Prado, though this
assertion has not much evidence to support
it. The sepia drawings appear to have
been done by Goya in his old age, when he
was no longer able to undertake large
pictures, and found a vent for his restless
activity in sketching the people and life
around him. He was much given to draw-
ing from memory, and is said to have
declared that he who aspired to the name
of artist should be able to reproduce from
memory, with brush or pencil, any scene
or incident in all its essential features after
haying once beheld it. 0 0 0

Etaples. Pictures by T. Austen Brown,
A.R.S.A. Text by Jean E. Harston : fore-
word by A. H. Watson. (London:
Macrae Publishing Co.) 15s. net.—The
little fishing port in the estuary of the
Canche has, like manv another old-world
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town or village on the north coast of
France, long been a favourite haunt of
artists. Over a century ago it was here
that preparations were made for Napo-
leon's projected descent upon perfidious
Albion, and now, during the far greater
struggle that has threatened the integrity
of France as well as Britain, it has once
more been the scene of huge military move-
ments. In Mr. Austen Brown's pictures,
however, we see no trace of military
activity. He shows us the fishing port and
its surroundings in time of peace—the
market-place with its throng of people,
the church, the Calvary around which are
assembled the fisher-folk just before the
grande peche, which takes their men away
for a long period. The artist, who has
lived long among them, has absorbed the
spirit of the place and its people, who have
become inured to a life of toil and peril
and are contented. 0000