. Art and criticism : monographs and studies. 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 ad
. Art and criticism : monographs and studies. 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. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE.—By M. Emmanuel Fremiet. know that nature has destined one of them to be the prey ofthe other. One of M. Fremiets best known works is a Faunplaying with Bears Whelps, of which the original marble is inthe Luxembourg Museum. This charming vision of fantasticwoodland life, conceived one day in a mood of Arcadian rev-erie, is a graceful group, full of happy invention and full of souvenir of Greek art, it will be said. Where did M. Fremietever see a faun with hairy limbs and cloven hoofs ? Simply ineternal nature, where the old Greeks saw fauns and dryads too, 26o • ART AND CRITICISM. and Pan piping to the joyous band. It was Nature, too, whotaught the sculptor how to combine the diverse forms of a manand of a goat into a creature which has a logical anatomy andcan stand on its legs. Is not Nature the nursing mother ofArt, the inexhaustible well-spring where alone Fancy can fillher sparkling cup ? AUGUSTE RODIN. THE name of the most original, the most reali
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