Studio: international art (85.1923)

THE COLLECTION OF MR. WILLIAM BURRELL

“ LADY AT TABLE ”
OIL PAINTING BY
CHARLES BARGUE

them is quite so satisfactory as the little
monochrome drawing, Church Interior.
This in its few square inches contains the
essential Bosboom. Several water-colours
by Anton Mauve represent him well, but
Mr. Burrell's large oil picture, perhaps
the Mauve masterpiece, of horses and boats
on a beach, is not here. a a a
Of the French pictures the most im-
pressive are, of course, the Millets, and
chief of them is the splendid and melan-
choly drawing November, on the plain of
Barbizon. It is the end of autumn, winter
has come, the fields are bare, a shower
darkens the land, no life is seen but the

flight of the rooks—a dead world till
spring comes again. This big unaffected
drawing (how empty of “ cleverness *')
is in chalk and colour wash. Donkeys on
a Heath is like Crome with a French
accent, and in its suggestion of shower
and wind, has more bustle than November,
while the epic grandeur of Une Famille de
Paysans seems to sum up and express all
that Jean Francois felt about the toilers
of the fields. Of the four Monticellis, all
fine, the Ladies in a Forest is of especial
interest, as being a collaboration with
Matthew Maris. These Monticellis show
certain reserve in respect of colour, sug-

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