Auguste Lep©·re [electronic resource] . reat world thatturns from night to day, from day to night,interminably, unchecked and unspeeded bythe passing storms of human glee and hu-man woe. La Seine a lEmbouchure du Canal Saint-Martin is more commonplace in subject,the river and its barges having entered intothe artistic life of nearly all French etchers;but how few could pass with such surenessof plan, such precision of execution, fromthe dark bulk of the vessel in the lower leftcorner to the snapping black of the tree-topin the upper right corner, along a perfectdiagonal, without a suspicion of
Auguste Lep©·re [electronic resource] . reat world thatturns from night to day, from day to night,interminably, unchecked and unspeeded bythe passing storms of human glee and hu-man woe. La Seine a lEmbouchure du Canal Saint-Martin is more commonplace in subject,the river and its barges having entered intothe artistic life of nearly all French etchers;but how few could pass with such surenessof plan, such precision of execution, fromthe dark bulk of the vessel in the lower leftcorner to the snapping black of the tree-topin the upper right corner, along a perfectdiagonal, without a suspicion of stiffness orformalism in the fluent arrangement of in-numerable details of pattern! This strongsense of appropriate and austere design, sup-ported by such an easy grace of handling, isunusual in any age, and especially in ourown, when grace and austerity find it al-most impossible to live together in onemans work. Turning away from these subjects, inwhich nature presents a wide range to theartist and inspires him to breadth and dig-i8. Le Nid nin- of treatment, to the quaint and touch-ing subjects drawn from peasant hfe in theVendean homes, we find beneath the ad-mirable form of Leperes expressionthoughts tender and merry and filled withsjmpathy for common experience. Hiswork becomes picturesque and living, themood of the observer changes in response,and the pleasure given is that inspired bysimple things, although the treatment of thegiven scene is often far from While all these plates are admirably ex-pressive, one in particular, Le Nid, seems tome filled with melody, color and charm aswell as with the efficient intelligence al-ways to be found in Leperes work. A lit-tle solid house with thick walls stands ingreenery. Children, natural, happy, un-concerned, are playing in the is a curve of low hill and a glimpseof flat plain; and still beyond, a little townwith its spire. It is all very naive andfresh ; the outdoor setting has much beauty;the ty
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