. International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. ohn Crome, known as Old Crome. A curious interest attaches to some beautifullvcarved panels shown at the rooms of M. Johnson-Brown & Co., No. 17 West Thirty-first Street, ofwhich there are eleven pieces of French andFlemish workmanship of the sixteenth years they were part of the decoration of theParis house of the late Emile Zola and have beenacquired from his widow. Tt was only after themost patient research that the distinguished authorsecured these pieces, which he found in variousmonasteries. They are all
. International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. ohn Crome, known as Old Crome. A curious interest attaches to some beautifullvcarved panels shown at the rooms of M. Johnson-Brown & Co., No. 17 West Thirty-first Street, ofwhich there are eleven pieces of French andFlemish workmanship of the sixteenth years they were part of the decoration of theParis house of the late Emile Zola and have beenacquired from his widow. Tt was only after themost patient research that the distinguished authorsecured these pieces, which he found in variousmonasteries. They are all of religious themes andtogether, as they are here, they seem made as a com-plete set. The work is in high relief and there aremany figures in each composition which embodysuch themes as the scenes and incidents in the lifeof Christ just prior to the Crucifixion and, indeed,afterward. A remarkable piece of wood-carvingis the Last Supper, with the Disciples about thetable. There is the Descent from the Cross, andthere is one representing the crowning of the Courtesy of M. Johnson Bro-un isr Company CARVED FROM THE HOME OF PANEL THE LATE EMIL ZOLA CXVI Boston Exhibitions ^ , .^BS HB . ..^^L. . ? ? . ^ Courtesy oj R. C. and A . .1/ VoseCATTLE BY C. TROVON B OSTOX KXHIBITIOXS The Copley Society has been holding anexhibition of examples of French masters of1830. This collection will be noticed atfurther length in a forthcoming issue. Examples of work of this notable grouj) werechosen by Messrs. R. C. and N. M. Vose, for an ex-hibition commemorating the fifty-eighth anniversaryof the establishment in business of their father, Morton Vose, of Providence. The invitationsissued for this exhibition are in the form of a hand-somely printed and illustrated booklet, with a histor-ic al outline of the Barbizon school, portraits of Corot,Daubigny, Millet, Uupre, Rousseau, Troyon andDiaz, and brief biographical sketches. The exhibi-tion was largely made u[) of pictures drawn fr
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