OUTSKIRTS OF A WOOD · ALFRED SISLEY
CHILD AND DOG · EUGÈNE CARRIÈRE
CHAPTER VII · SOME YOUNGER IMPRESSIONISTS: CARRIÈRE, POINTELIN, MAUFRA
“WHENEVER MEN ARE NOBLE THEY LOVE BRIGHT COLOUR, AND WHEREVER THEY CAN LIVE HEALTHILY, BRIGHT COLOUR IS GIVEN THEM IN SKY, SEA, FLOWERS, AND LIVING CREATURES”
RUSKIN
EUGÈNE Carrière is one of those great artists so prolific in France who alone would make the fame of any ordinary country. For his work the writer has always had deep sympathy, and this feeling has strengthened since the days when he copied the works of the master now in the Luxembourg. There can be no better method of studying any artist, and specially is it needed in the case of such a painter as Carrière. It is only during the long patient hours spent in trying to reproduce in facsimile these strange elusive pictures that one can grasp their technical qualities, their poetic intention, their thoughtful nature, and can fully recognise the fine achievement of the artist. As the copyist stands and works for hours, thinking, reasoning, reproducing, the whole history of the man and his art slowly reveals itself.