| Knight: Girieud. Nothing could be more fair. Pierre Girieud should have been decorated ten years ago; but he is so modest, incapable of making the slightest step, - except in favor of others. I am not afraid to say that the small landscapes of Girieud, of a perfect construction, with harmonious agreements, with values ??so finely nuanced, will remain, while so many large pretentious compositions by successful authors will have sunk into oblivion. Girieud is also a penetrating portrait painter; his effigies of Duhamel, of Gasquet, are of an intense life. Since I pronounced the name of Gasquet - should the flabby homuncle Besson turn green again - let us say that our dear Joachim would have been happy, from the cross of Girieud, as will Xavier de Magallon, Alfred Lombard, Dufrénoy Segonzac, Mario Meunier, Erlande, admirers of Pierre Girieud, as well as the signatory of this notice. |