| (...) It would be a mistake to believe that the desire of the painting with characters that comes to join the great creations of the past is recent among contemporary painters. If it counts more and more followers, it does not date from yesterday. Mr.Girieud is among the artists who for many years have been aiming for a similar goal. In this salon again, his sketch of an Oriental afternoon reminds us of his noble efforts, but will it allow us to prefer to this sketch a little cold the calm and collected landscape of Lourmarin, hatched, with no apparent effort , in contact with a beautiful site? |