Identifier: scribnersmagazin16newy (find matches)
Title: Scribner's magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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leep of Jesus,which was at the Universal Exhibitionof 1889, and Bethlehem, in which thechild Jesus is seen along with the ani-mals in the stable. There is also TheConsolation of the Afflicted, in the gal-lery at Rochefort. Most of these works are in quiet color,according to the old, sober French fash-ion of grays and browns. I have alludedalready to the comparative brightnessand gayety of the artists decorativepaintings. I do not know these wellenough to give a detailed account ofthem, but see that M. Deschamps is byno means indifferent to color, and thatwhen he paints without it, or with littleof it, the reason is to be sought in a self-denying resolution of his own. I mayadd that he is a skilful painter in water-color, and that he enjoys it as a relieffrom oil. Like most French artists who have at-tained a certain position, M. Deschami:)sis of the Legion of Honor, and he is amember of both the societies of artistswhich exhibit in the Champs Elyseesand the Champ de Mars. As it is un-
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Louis Deschamps. derstood, however, that the same artistcannot exhibit in both, he has decidedfor the Chamj) de Mars, perhaps becausemore than two works are accepted there,and the pictures of one man are groupedtogether. An effort is also made to avoidthe injury done by the too close neigh-borhood of works that are mutuallv harmful. On the other hand, it may,perhaps, be regretted that so serious anartist asM. Deschamps should be incon-gruously associated with the wildestfreaks in the delirium of the modernFrench decadence, freaks which are en-tirely foreign to the sobriety and dignityof his nature. Vol. XVI.—61 565

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