The New Review (Volume 15)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1896. Excerpt: ... By HIS LIFE AND HIS ART VALLERY C. O. GREARD de FAcadt'mie Franqaise. Price /I 16s. net Translated from the French by Lady Mary Loyd And Miss Florence Simmosds A/t EISSONIER'S personality lends itself with special kindness to the biographer. * * His long life, the universal recognition of the important place he filled in the artistic activity of his country, the definite, not to say dogmatic, nature of his belief and aims, and the peculiar fitness of his pictures for reproduction, are all conditions favourable to the writer of his life. Monsieur Greard's task has been therefore a comparatively easy pretend to give an the master's career, story of his life in a gleaned chiefly from revelations in familiar biography occupies volume. The other from his note-books, notes from the paint- to the devotion of a became his second often original and high degree, will be greatest interest, more those who have been intelligence of the first French master, will be in one volume. Dr. Ricci's Correggio, Michel's Rembrandt. Two Hundred Illus- printed in black and page Plates, partly in partly in colour, re- sonier's finest works. one. He does not exhaustive study of but he sets forth the series of sketches, Mcissonier's own selftalk and letters. The about one-half of the consists of extracts as well as of a series of er's conversations, due friend who eventually wife. These pfnsi'cs, suggestive in a very found to be of the especially perhaps to inclined to deny an order to the famous The work, which will be uniform with and Monsieur Emile It will contain some trations in the text, tint, and Forty Fullphotogravure and producing all MeisThere will also be a special edition de luxe in two volumes, printed on Japanese vellum with a duplicate set of plates on India paper mounted for framin...