| (...) Real nobility, poetry, in the exact sense of the word which implies creation, make the virtue of the Greek landscapes of Pierre Girieud, modeled in this light which is of all the purest, like that of Egypt is the more fulfilled. This good painter who once had the high ambition of bringing painting back to the splendor of classical composition, succeeds today, in works of small dimensions, to express this correctness of feeling, this sobriety of vision, this free and moderating constraint which are characteristic of classical art. (...) |