The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-11

flames tthe sulphur OF Delacrolxl Shet
he found himself beside ChaSs.Ariau pic
lures. But DelacroiX. however neal
ChassAriau came 20 hIm in some % hl,
Eastern studies. was not his goal he
sought the perfect idol form of man anC
woman that Delacroix in the instructive
3 part of him resented
! " ~ impossible here a. trace the Nhols
line of decorators whp. starting from
7 the school II lngrps found thus IN Chas-
sSriau their FIRST gen lus 10 aet over against
DelacrniN II was complicated 10y hRvinE
been turned To- Christian uses. No sooneI
had the Revolution swept out The churches
/ than 10y IN" collection Of their sculptures
and treasures IN Ienoir's museum the
romance Of them returned and first
Napoleon and then the Bou-bons brought
back the church ITSELF simultaneously
with this detrarking II the OiympiAn
ln" came the impulse from Germany
ss'nI-re'igious semi. philosophical bour d
up with the revival ~ frisco. II was Ia
touch England later The philoaophical
frenzy worked itself out in the troubled.
Discouraged brain 81 Paul CheVanArd.
who spent himself ON = complete scheme
~ history. with the development Of the
arts and sciences and their complete
order. for the Pantheon Only the car
toons were executed
On the other side Ingres had To make
his attempt on Christian legends and his
pupil FlRndrin and that gentle weather
cock Of sentiment AIRY Schefer pro-
duCsd a brand OF academic eccles last ical
art. ChassAriau himself was employed
va the churches ~ ST Philippe du Rous
st Roch and ST M%ry; blt his favoring
chance was for the Cour DIES Comp; -
usH-isYl He had bAen promised the
upper part Of IT, he sketched a scheme
Tor the whole with 80 fine a grasp and
treatment Of the spaces and lights that
fhe whole Was given to him Up the
~la-dowv staircase he ran decoration
m RrIsalhe with preparatory figures
II Study. silence and R"cnllA, ton 1t
tn tp ~ tn st!irCLs" wer, two
prln"ipNl groups, Peace and War. 4
fragment Of the Peac, e, the most IN o.
purtant salvage from IRE and long eN-
pn~ure. In this with it, grant sense
~ line and grouping, the monumental
pastoral 81 it, landscape and solemn
trees. the lovely sculpturesque motions
~ women. children. ploughmen and
reap'rs, We get the SAVIOR - Chass e-iau :
spirit and measure of his picture building
ppwHT
Another relic. a group Of horses. II
nothing else were left would proclaim
designer ~ rare order, Il might I've a
classic fragment
one Of his notes deserves place in
e'"'y manual Of imprsssionis'n. his dis
tinc;ton hot ween a living a~i a dead
Al. a
undrr the s,in. and thiS difference d.
taChes aesh always from n;her ohiec.s
IL must therctorn. have it, equivalent 81
-val"ur vivante- IN painting. In his note
book Juttingz and plottIngs for pictures =
an ideal ~ blonde freshness tender Rrays
and golden igh Read the-e: To 10 a
wood IN powder Il sun. all the tones
- the tree rk.tr and thin all IA fog
~ SIN and only rhc SHARP lights hung
on ~. trunks Il 'hr tre~ ,soft rich
and novel; IN" trunks ~ the trees very
Shl'e ~ shadows soft and ErayIrh
The hight strong ard high c"lorrd,
? n tr,r- ~ a hardy rich green. IN" -Ny
T,irc. cIsar and blue rhe sky like a
mother Of 'aarl shell gray. with "d
silver SKY all marbled with a greenish
and white tons. but IN rlaoes blue. the
moon gltttering the whole fantastic and
I'D
troTn these notes h" can bs followed
IN HIS ideas and methods His Use Of
tho model places him very exactly bctween
lngres and EelscroiH, he worked closely
from life till he found the pose or gesture
he roc i.d. thcn dismissed the mode
and finished from feeling The conviction
hat 10 ma, g he,Itiful vi ,t'ires you must
se- wolf m IN" ."ls" II seeing nAtu-
r ally revouuonB 81 IN" lngri-t IDEAS OF
,esing and painting. bringing IN land
,car.. methods ChAsscriau held by his
school in making careful cartoons IT
figures and drap.ris'. but painted the
anvrs 10y color values. putting IN solid
.hahows IN clear tonrs. without bItumen.
and frank tones Ia gamma chantAnte,
for IN. Hghts. IN facets or pianos n"
,vclaims -\- Tc.rire que los chooses qul
~" touch"1' b a ~" From words like
these. adi"i y" he nutilated work. IN"
vision dIs,lls r's"f IN" noble force, the
tired exotic grace" the fund gray and
gold ~ the G'--p- Of ar