. Jules Bastien-Lepage and his art. A memoir. The format of the little panel portrait of thePrince of Wales evoked in the press the obviouslyinvited reference to Clouet. The ready writer cannotbave looked at so much as a single pearl in the neck-lace of one of Clouets princesses. To judge fairly of an artist, however, we mustfollow him on to his own ground. In his portrait ofbis grandfather, at the same exhibition, it wasquite possible to see Lepage at his best as a work-manlike and photographic copyist of a figure inrepose. It was at the same time possible to turnfrom this picture straight to
. Jules Bastien-Lepage and his art. A memoir. The format of the little panel portrait of thePrince of Wales evoked in the press the obviouslyinvited reference to Clouet. The ready writer cannotbave looked at so much as a single pearl in the neck-lace of one of Clouets princesses. To judge fairly of an artist, however, we mustfollow him on to his own ground. In his portrait ofbis grandfather, at the same exhibition, it wasquite possible to see Lepage at his best as a work-manlike and photographic copyist of a figure inrepose. It was at the same time possible to turnfrom this picture straight to Manets fifre, and to hisbon bock, and thus to measure the gulf that separatesa meritorious workman from an inspired executantof the first rank. No useful end can be gained byobscuring this fact, and if, in league with the moderngigantic conspiracy of toleration, we are to speakof ^tien-Lepage as a master, what terms are leftus for Keene and Millet, for Whistler and Degas ? WALTBB , 1891. A STUDY OF MARIE BASHKIRTSEFF. 10. r Mother.] Marie Bashkibtseff. Portrait by Herself.) A STUDY OF MARIE BASHKIRTSEFF. THE brilliant sunshine of a glorious Octobermorning poured through the tall windows ofMarie Bashkirtsefts studio on my last visitto the Rue de Prony. This mellow light bathing hercanvasses brought them out in fullest relief, andI had never had such a favourable opportunity ofjudging her work in its entirety. I was struck morethan ever by the vigour and vitality of these studies,Bketches, pastels, and pictures struck off at a whiteheat of mental production between the ages ofseventeen and four and twenty. Hanging above thegallery which runs along one side of the wall wereher fust studies from life, which astonished Julian somuch that he pronounced them phenomenal; lurewere her numerous sketches showing the sincerity oflici- efforts to be true to nature; and her finishedpictures full of individuality and power. As the eye rested on these portraits where the key
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