. International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. utrather those brighter, clearer pageswhich, with their festal decor,bring before our eyes the brilliantforms of the women of the SecondEmpire. But as a matter offact, according to his manner—I have no intention of instituting268 comparisons — La Touche is carrying on thetradition of the French artists of the i8th cen-tury : the same care in choosing a rich, gaysetting, the same feeling for grace, and, inmany of his works, the same sense of thedecorative. I am thinking particularly at thismoment of a panel entitled Le Faun
. International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. utrather those brighter, clearer pageswhich, with their festal decor,bring before our eyes the brilliantforms of the women of the SecondEmpire. But as a matter offact, according to his manner—I have no intention of instituting268 comparisons — La Touche is carrying on thetradition of the French artists of the i8th cen-tury : the same care in choosing a rich, gaysetting, the same feeling for grace, and, inmany of his works, the same sense of thedecorative. I am thinking particularly at thismoment of a panel entitled Le Faune, whereinone beholds near a statue, under trees, a groupof young women listening to a faun ; and thispanel immediately brings back the memory ofFragonard of Grasse. There is the same boldnessof drawing, the same successful arrangement in thedistribution of the groups, the same intoxicatingcolour. Moreover, it seems to me as thoughLa Touche takes pleasure in emphasising thiskinship, as he does when he devotes himself tocertain decorative motifs which were in much. ancien BY GASTON LA TOUCHE ( The property of Mom. T.)
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