New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-05
PARIS PICTURE SHOWS.
Displays of Oriental Art, Water
CoIors. FIoacers and Landscapes.
Paris, February q

Paris. February 81.
~ Dujardin- Beaumetz, the newly appointed
e.cretary OF State for Fine Arts, has begun his
.,g,rtions by opening this week no less than six
-icfure shows. The most important and original
:. mich is the Salon of the Orientalists. in the
,--sn5 Palace Of the Champs Elysees This. the
.h;r-eenth annual exhibition of the French
,o-iartslist Painters, marks a significant stage
=. the development Of Partisan taste for sun
chine and warmth OF color. There are nearly
&c hundred members in the catalogue and a
,boIe room is given 10 Charles Cottet, who ex-
tbits forty pictures made during his visits to
turkey. Upper Egypt and TO Spain. which is still
,sssad by French painters as an Oriental land.
Co--er he's hitherto been known as the delinea-
,or Of pathetic scenes 81 religious fervor and
-.;-,ifive sadness Of the Breton fisherfoIk and
- tho stern. savage impressions of Brittany
,.,secapes and seacoast views. This conscien-
lions rugged. open air artist has now shaken
out & rev reef, and in his paintings made at
srau7boul. Scutari and Snlyrna gives charming
effects OF Mediterranean sky and water-dif-
sercnt from the sombre severity of his dark
pictures painted in Brittany. Upper Egypt has
also Afforded Cottet opportunity for brighten
ing his palette His little feIlah girls with their
sheeny bronze skins barred TO the Luxor sun; the
Susky Gate sellers. the merry circle of gazeIle
eyed CftlQTfL caring sAS0ICSne amid SWaTmS
u flies, torchlight dances Of the MouIed pro-
pessions Of suakelke, tobacco colored strings of
ranlcls approaching by twilight the Oasis Of
Phyla and the desert graveyard near Assouan
Kirh green turbaned hadjfs in evening prayer
form delightful and truthful visions OF Egypt
Cottet evokes the mellowness Of Gauguin. the
rcT-ectness Of G6r6me and the fancy OF Ben
3a1nin Constant. \ dozen views OF Toledo
which Cottet considers the most picturesquely
beautiful city Of Spain, are discreet vet piquant
in color. The series Of pictures of the Segovia
Cathedral are executed with the conscientious
seeking for truth that characterizes Claude
Monst's views Of The Cathedral of Rouen and OF
The Church Of Vetheuil The Spanish sun and
the Sierra snow. forming exquisite contrast with
The budding fruit trees in the month of April
are brushed IN 2 masterful manner by the titu-
lar painter Of Brittany
Alexandra Lunols exhibits some highly col
cred searching and sympathetic types of Alge-
rian Arabs Perhaps the finest work of this
0rlsHtaLst painter is q pastel representing a
group Of Israelite women making a visit to
ons Of their co-reIigionist neighbors. Lunois's
large composition of "Gowning the Jewish
Bride" is executed with remarkable vigor. and
he Algerian luminosity Of light and atmos-
phere is skilfully rendered. Now that the
American Orientalist Edwin Lord Weeks.
has gone, Alphonse Dinet is accorded by the
critics the foremost place among Partisan ORR
eHtalists Dinet IS uneQualled in his expressions
Of Arab figures, Arab flesh and Arab eyes His
men and women seem to be inspired with move
ment and vibration. and with passions of love.
anger, or hatred Dinet's draughtsmanship an
pToaches perfection. There is nervousness and
supPleness in every line. Another exceedingly
clever colorist is Dagnac- Riviere, whose studies,
made of the coast Of Morocco, have the bold
suggesuyeness OF Turner. Dagnac-Riviere's
Red SaiP' and his Vision are admira bic and
highly imaginative color schemes, and would
be masterpieces If concentrated thought and
conscientious execution had been put into them.
They are unfinished color conceptions, only
lacking in true anatomy and accurate model
ling. Dagnac-Riviere is courageous in his ideals
ana he possesses intuitive color genius. He is
young and the Partisan critics expect that
with maturity Of thought he will some day pro-
cuce great works. A charming note Of imagery
is given 70 the Orientalist salon by the pict-
ures Of the Americans, Eugene Vail and Eliza
beth Nourse. Wallis studies Of Venice evince
original and exceedingly interesting concep-
tions OF moist hazy atmosphere, and Elizabeth
Nourse's water-color drawings of festivities
and marketplace groups at Biskra and Tunis
are truthful and pleasing
among the other OTientalists whose works
merit recognition in the exhibition may be men
toned Georges Scott CArab horsenen). Andre
SDreda venetian scenes. Louis Girardot
CAfoorish women Of Riff and OF Tangiers),
Benner (scenes in the Parthenon), Georges
Bigot (cleverIy handled studies in brush and
pastel Of japanese Geisha girls Mako, the ma
tional vernal dance Of Kioto; Yoshiwara women
and sketches of japanese soldiers bivouacking
II Corea), Paul Buffet Spanish hermitages).
Levy Dhurmer (Ouled-Nau fetes and Sego-
Wan beggars). Frederick Lauth contributes a
group Of captivatlngly graceful girls and boys
IN Grenada; Mile Clementine Dufqu adds 10
Der reputation by her delicately colored views Of
the Tagus at Toledo Altogether the thirteenth
annual show OF the French Orientalsts is a dis
tinct advance, when compared with the exhi-
bitious Of former years, and the Partisan public
for the first time appears to have come
really IN touch with the Orientalist's ideas.
The annual exhibition at the Georges Petit
Gallery Of the French Water Color Society is
neither better nor worse than in the past. There
are clever drawing. distinction and refinement in
color. Guillaume Dubufe presents a delicious