. International studio. ese worksof highest significance, Lhermitte produced manyeasel pictures, always impeccable in execution, andin which the landscape often played the leading ro/e,the figures being merely accessories, but neverthe-less alive and ever in harmony with the decorativescheme and the scenes in which they were placed. The pictures of 1908 seem to sum up and crownin a kind of apotheosis of rustic family life all the previous achievements of the artist. He has notdeserted his Virgilian themes. At the close of afair autumn day, their work done, a family oflabourers gather beneath a
. International studio. ese worksof highest significance, Lhermitte produced manyeasel pictures, always impeccable in execution, andin which the landscape often played the leading ro/e,the figures being merely accessories, but neverthe-less alive and ever in harmony with the decorativescheme and the scenes in which they were placed. The pictures of 1908 seem to sum up and crownin a kind of apotheosis of rustic family life all the previous achievements of the artist. He has notdeserted his Virgilian themes. At the close of afair autumn day, their work done, a family oflabourers gather beneath a rick preparatory towending their way back to the farm. A youngcouple in the prime of life, the aged parents, thechildren, symbolise the three generations whichconstitute the normal household, not countingtrois grands boeufs blancs taches de roux, which,if one may believe Pierre Dupont, also form part ofthe family. La Famille (p. 3) is a work of nobleproportions and classic in the perfect eciuilibriumof the HISPANO-MORESQUE LUSTRE WAKEFIG. I. -COPPER LUSTRE AND LIGHT r>LUE DISH (c. 1475-1510; uk;. 2.—copper lustre and dark klue dish (early xv. cent.) (See next article) Hispano-Moresque Lustre Ware We had meant to conclude with this crowningwork of great largeness of vision, but the indefatig-able artist carries us on to this years Salon, wherehe has struck a new note in his Emigrants, asouvenir of Wissant, Pas-de-Calais. A family ofpoor folk has halted for a moment bv the wavside,in a clear and limpid landscape with soft valleys,whose simple lines seem to add to the impressive-ness of the picture. To the present year belongalso the works of which reproductions in colouraccompany this article, a pastel and a painting,both bearing witness to Lhermittes mastery inthese mediums. ^\e have now made a sur\ey, alas: far too
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