DOI issue:
No. 341 (August 1921)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21393#0095
STUDIO-TALK
titled Salvator Mundi, a life-sized statue of and returning to Marseilles and Toulon,
a Faun, an oval painting of the Virgin and History has shown that he received barely
the child Jesus, sleeping, and a number of the price of the materials and labour used
drawings. The statue of a Faun is an when fashioning those masterpieces of the
admirable example of Puget's skill in form- Louvre. G. F. L.
ing a statue direct from a block of marble,
after the fashion of Michael Angelo and TV /fADRID.—Spain possesses a reservoir
other great masters of ancient days, and it 1V1 of natural artistic talent which is
brings home to one most vividly the words quite above the normal. Almost every
which occur in a letter from Puget to small town has its two or three artists, while
Louvois, announcing the despatch of his affiliated art clubs are widespread all over
Andromeda, " Je suis nourri aux grands the country. Spain suffers not from lack of
ouvrages ; je nage quand j'y travaille et le talent but from lack of taste, and most of
marbre tremble devant moi, plus grosse que the effort even of the talented young artists
soit la piece." One is reminded, too, by the is ruined by a crude vulgarity. When, how-
bas-relief of Louis XIV. of the sculptor's ever, an artist contrives by natural gifts to
troubles at the Court. Despite the hearty escape from this evil contagion his work
welcome which he received from the king, becomes of considerable value and interest.
Puget remained there for only eight months. The figures, of which illustrations are
The antipathy he felt for Le Brun and here given, are the work of a young sculptor
other artists made his stay impossible, of Murcia named Clemente Cantos. He
There is no doubt that the Court party did has never left his native town, earning a
their best to injure Puget in the eyes of living there by carving tombstones or
Louis, and that he had every excuse for figures for church shrines. He is a self-
shaking die dust of Versailles from his feet educated artist and his power is yet well
' DANCER WITH A FAN " " LA BATURRA " EASTER SUNDAY '
SCULPTURE BY CLEMENTE CANTOS
79
titled Salvator Mundi, a life-sized statue of and returning to Marseilles and Toulon,
a Faun, an oval painting of the Virgin and History has shown that he received barely
the child Jesus, sleeping, and a number of the price of the materials and labour used
drawings. The statue of a Faun is an when fashioning those masterpieces of the
admirable example of Puget's skill in form- Louvre. G. F. L.
ing a statue direct from a block of marble,
after the fashion of Michael Angelo and TV /fADRID.—Spain possesses a reservoir
other great masters of ancient days, and it 1V1 of natural artistic talent which is
brings home to one most vividly the words quite above the normal. Almost every
which occur in a letter from Puget to small town has its two or three artists, while
Louvois, announcing the despatch of his affiliated art clubs are widespread all over
Andromeda, " Je suis nourri aux grands the country. Spain suffers not from lack of
ouvrages ; je nage quand j'y travaille et le talent but from lack of taste, and most of
marbre tremble devant moi, plus grosse que the effort even of the talented young artists
soit la piece." One is reminded, too, by the is ruined by a crude vulgarity. When, how-
bas-relief of Louis XIV. of the sculptor's ever, an artist contrives by natural gifts to
troubles at the Court. Despite the hearty escape from this evil contagion his work
welcome which he received from the king, becomes of considerable value and interest.
Puget remained there for only eight months. The figures, of which illustrations are
The antipathy he felt for Le Brun and here given, are the work of a young sculptor
other artists made his stay impossible, of Murcia named Clemente Cantos. He
There is no doubt that the Court party did has never left his native town, earning a
their best to injure Puget in the eyes of living there by carving tombstones or
Louis, and that he had every excuse for figures for church shrines. He is a self-
shaking die dust of Versailles from his feet educated artist and his power is yet well
' DANCER WITH A FAN " " LA BATURRA " EASTER SUNDAY '
SCULPTURE BY CLEMENTE CANTOS
79