File:Claude Monet - Madame Monet in the garden at Vétheuil.jpg

Identifier: internationalstu38newy (find matches)
Title: International studio
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Art Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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. Monetdans le jardin a Vetliueil that this art discloses itselfin its most sympathetic as))ect. The simple sceneabsolutely sparkles with light and outdoor radiance.It 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 spring.The 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
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MADAME MONET IN THEC.ARDEN 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 »)ils.Just 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 I.VIII Sunset at Bruges, which would have delighted theheart of Georges Rodenbach, and two smallersubjects, a Souper and The Honeymoon. There are something over a do

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