Head of a ChildAuthor(s): Jean Baptiste Greuze, E. Forberg and S. R. K.Source: The American Art Review, Vol. 1, No. 7 (May, 1880), p. 313Published by:Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20559660 .

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THE AMERICAN ART REVIEW. 3 I 3

Vinton displays marked progress over his

previous efforts. There is more refine

ment in the handling, without loss of force,

while he makes a successful attempt to

give us those shades of character which

elude the superficial eye. There is, how

ever, a chalkiness perceptible in the color

of the head, which slightly detracts from

an otherwise excellent piece of work.

Among a number of paintings by the

President of the Academy, the vigorous

portrait of General Dix calls for especial

comment. It is not often that an artist

who has passed the meridian of life im

proves in style; but that is exactly what

we see in Mr. Huntington's later por

traits. Among the veterans of American

art, we must not forget to mention Mr.

Robert W. Weir, whose annual contribu

tions to the exhibitions show that he still

continues to follow his chosen profession

at a time of life when most men fold their

hands to rest. Mr. Page contributes a

suggestive portrait of General Grant, and

several other canvases. But as they are

not recent, and have been seen before, it

is not incumbent upon us to examine

them in detail.

Speaking of our older artists, it must

be said, however, that the hanging com

mittee would have done a kindness to

some of them if they had excluded their

paintings, as they can only serve to im

pair the impression made by their earlier

work, and would not for a moment have

merited consideration had they not been

painted by Academicians. The Academy,

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NYMPH AND TIGERS.- BY A. H. THAYER.

FROM A SKETCH BY THE ARTIST.

SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARTISTS. (See p. 26I.)

as organized at present, is heavily handicapped by carrying artists whose career was practically ended years ago,

but who continue on the rolls, and interfere with greatly needed reforms in its administration. It is unnecessary

to say that these apparently ungracious remarks are made most reluctantly. But they simply contain the statement

of a law of life which it is beyond our power to evade. S. G. W. BENJAMIN.

HEAD OF A CHILD. PAINTED BY JEAN BAPTISTE GREUZE. ETCHED BY E. FORBERG.

REUZE may in a measure be called the Rousseau of French painters. Reacting against the tendencies

of his time, he endeavored to make art the exponent of nature, innocence, and virtue. But he was

not entirely successful in his endeavors, for his nature and innocence smack of coquetry, and his

virtue exhibits itself in a theatrical pose. This is evident even in the charming Head of a Chzild,

herewith published, the original of which belongs to the Academic Gallery at Vienna. Greuze can be studied

more readily in the United States than almost any other painter of the past. The Museum at Boston has three of

his pictures, one, the Chapereau Blanc, especially beautiful; the Mtuseum at New York has one (etched by Jacque

mart, and reproduced in Harper's Monthly for May, i88o); and in the catalogue of the collection belonging to

the New York Historical Society his name occurs six times. K.

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