. Art and criticism : monographs and studies. el, gouache, and wax of the most delicate aspect, to saynothing of his ceramic work, in which he has revealed suchremarkable decorative sentiment. His great celebrity as anartist is now of some ten years standing. His chief works ex-hibited at the Salon have been The Flight into Egypt (1877), Le Voyage de Tobie (1878), Le Depart (1879), Ishmaeland Tobie (1880), Souvenir de Fete (1881), Judith (1883),La Journee faite (1888). M. Cazin obtained a first-classmedal in 1880, and the decoration of the Legion of Honor in1882, on the occasion of a collectiv
. Art and criticism : monographs and studies. el, gouache, and wax of the most delicate aspect, to saynothing of his ceramic work, in which he has revealed suchremarkable decorative sentiment. His great celebrity as anartist is now of some ten years standing. His chief works ex-hibited at the Salon have been The Flight into Egypt (1877), Le Voyage de Tobie (1878), Le Depart (1879), Ishmaeland Tobie (1880), Souvenir de Fete (1881), Judith (1883),La Journee faite (1888). M. Cazin obtained a first-classmedal in 1880, and the decoration of the Legion of Honor in1882, on the occasion of a collective exhibition of his works. Our illustration is a reproduction of an oil-painting called The Nativity. It is evening; the shades of night are creep-ing on and overpowering the last glow of the red sunset. Aroughly thatched shed, a ladder leaning against the shed, aloose stone wall enclosing the simple shelter, a heap of straw,a mother and her babe, a man draped in brown garments andresting on a staff—such are the elements of the human scene. SOME MODERN FRENCH PAINTERS. 17 which is set in a harmony of gray-green and roseate gray Iindescribable and enveloping mystery. This picture, like all M. Cazins landscapes, is remarkablefor the distinction of its tone, the absolute verity of the light,the quality of atmosphere and ambience. In the exquisitestudy of the phenomena of light and shade, and more especial-ly in the endeavor to render diffused light, M. Cazin is pecul-iarly modern. In the painting of the past twenty years, moreespecially in French painting, the capital characteristic to benoted is precisely this evolution of the color sense, and the con-comitant intensification of the perceptive powers of the results of this evolution are strikingly noticeable whenwe see a modern picture, whether landscape or a figure sub-ject, side by side with an old picture. In this particular pointof atmospheric truth we remark immediately in the modernpicture a photometric quality wh
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