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son and G. Roy Partridge.
The irresistible charm
of Notre Dame has been
rendered by many:
Meryon, Rochebrune,
Goeneutte, Webster, Armington,
Hedley Fitton
(who did " The Rose Window"),
George T. Plowman,
Hornby, Vaughan
Trowbridge, Simon, D. S.
MacLaughlan. Mac-
Laughlan offers quite a
personal and special view,
of a precise truthfulness,
in his pictures of quays
and bridges, of corners
in the Bievre and elsewhere,
obtaining, as
Uzanne said," expressions
of a mellow, balanced
art full of distinction."
It is the architectural
aspects of the city which
principally have occupied
many artists. Others have seen these buildings
merely as a background for the life of the
city. Felix Buhot, with a style both vivacious
and forcible, peopled his views of Paris streets
with characteristic figures. We see the holiday
crowd on the Boulevard de Clichy,
on June 30 (la fete Nationale), a funeral or
a moving-van wending its way on a rainy
day, or a string of cab-horses shivering on a
gloomy, wet winter's morning, or slipping
Reproduced by the courtesy of Frederick Keppel & Co.
The Place Breda.
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Reproduced by the courtesy of Frederick Keppel & Co.
By Felix Buhut.
Pont St. Bernard.
By Eugene Bejot.
and falling in the Place Breda in snow. To
Norbert Goeneutte Paris seemed to exist
mainly in combination with the'' eternal feminine."
Plates such as the "Woman on the
Pont de l'Europe,"or the "Woman Entering
a Vehicle," are quite characteristic of place
and time (the '8o's) in type and costume.
However, he also showed the attractiveness
of locality under particular conditions—the
Boulevard de Clichy on a snowy day, or the
Palais de Justice.
Somewhat later there
appears the freer,
quivering line of Raffaelli,
with which he
peoples the Madeleine,
the Invalides,
and other places with
little figures that
fairly move and have
their being in surroundings
to which'
the artist has added
color accents deftly
and discreetly.
Quite in our own day,
Edgar Chahine has
drawn the people of
the slums and boulevards.
As different as pos-