. International studio. Monetdans le jardin a Vetliueil that this art discloses itselfin its most sympathetic as])ect. The simple sceneabsolutely sparkles with light and outdoor contains the very essence of those truths for whichthe master of Giverny has so manfully and so con-sistently fought. Quite worthy to hang beside theMonet, as it does, is Pissarros Femme a la Clievre,which shows a young peasant girl in blue hood andcape standing beside a i)layful goat in a woodedlandscape touched by the tender breath of picture bears the date of 8i, and, together withthe Monet an
. International studio. Monetdans le jardin a Vetliueil that this art discloses itselfin its most sympathetic as])ect. The simple sceneabsolutely sparkles with light and outdoor contains the very essence of those truths for whichthe master of Giverny has so manfully and so con-sistently fought. Quite worthy to hang beside theMonet, as it does, is Pissarros Femme a la Clievre,which shows a young peasant girl in blue hood andcape standing beside a i)layful goat in a woodedlandscape touched by the tender breath of picture bears the date of 8i, and, together withthe Monet and the near by Sisley, forms a typicalgroup of French plein air art at its best. Bright and smiling or delicate and Vergilian assuch scenes are, the impressionist of those early, ac-quisitive years did not confine his efforts exclusivelyto the country, but with Raffaelii set up his easelamid the throb of street traffic or with Degas haunt-ed the foyer de danse, where the ballet practices LVIl Mr. Reisinger s Collection. MADAME MONET IN AT VETHlEIL HV CLAUDE MONET with a rhythm and restraint well-nigh classic the in-tricate contortions in vogue to-day. The RaffaJlliis a large and animated canvas, entitled The Cathe-dral, showing a grou|) ofhurrying figures in an opensquare, with the red roofsof the town and tlic talls|)irc of the cathedral in thedistance. Somewhat lessecclesiastical in suggestionis Degass Daiiscuscs, awork of singular freedomof treatment and staticpoise, while completing theIren<h pictures of thisspet ific group are twoRenoirs, one a pastel, theother a small nude in ») as this delicate, assuredart had its sturdy prologuein Courhct, .so with (iastonLatouche comes its epi-logue, tinged with .senti-ment and redolent of by-gone grace. There arethree Latouchcs in theReisinger »ollection, one a my garden Sunset at Bruges, which would have delighted theheart of Georges Rodenbach, and two smallersubjects, a Souper and The Honeymoon. There a
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