. Art and criticism : monographs and studies. east;on the pedestal are scattered flowers and a wreath of immor-telles. This statue is full of feeling; the bearing and the gest-ure are most expressive, and the technical treatment is mas-terly in simplicity. M. Emmanuel Fremiet (born 1824), a pupil and nephew ofRude, is perhaps the most prolific and variedly powerful, fromthe realistic point of view, of all the contemporary French sculp-tors. As an animalier he alone can be said to succeed withoutreplacing Barye, and as a sculptor of the human form he exhib-ited in the Salon of 1886 a Denicheur
. Art and criticism : monographs and studies. east;on the pedestal are scattered flowers and a wreath of immor-telles. This statue is full of feeling; the bearing and the gest-ure are most expressive, and the technical treatment is mas-terly in simplicity. M. Emmanuel Fremiet (born 1824), a pupil and nephew ofRude, is perhaps the most prolific and variedly powerful, fromthe realistic point of view, of all the contemporary French sculp-tors. As an animalier he alone can be said to succeed withoutreplacing Barye, and as a sculptor of the human form he exhib-ited in the Salon of 1886 a Denicheur dOursons, which wasuniversally acknowledged to be a masterly creation. In theSalon of 1887 his colossal statue of a gorilla of Gaboon carry-ing: off a woman obtained the medal of honor, and now standsin the Jardin des Plantes at Paris, a most powerful and a mostterrific vision of monstrous and grinning bestiality. M. Fre-miet has created many equestrian groups and statues, amongwhich the finest are that of Jeanne Dare, on the Place des Pyra-. EQUESTRIAN STATUE FOR THE HOTEL DE VILLE.—By M. Emmanuel Fremiet. MODERN FRENCH SCULPTURE. 59 mides in Paris, and that represented in our engraving. Thesetwo equestrian statues are admirable in attitude, movement,veracity of gesture, and expressive unity, and they may bejustly ranked with the few excellent and powerful equestriangroups that have ever been made. Our other engraving showsM. Fremiet in a more familiar vein. This Age of Inno-cence represents a kitten and a fledgling feeding amicablyout of the same platter, neither being sufficiently advanced to
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