| (...) Several exhibitions are still to be reported. First that of Girieud, at Druet. We know that Girieud's research tends towards classicism. He was able to see in the Provençal sites of great natural architectures, which are not without analogies with certain pages of Poussin. The qualifier artist often covers, under an attractive and instructive skill, great droughts. As such, we can say that Girieud's art is never an artist; but on the contrary collected, subjected to nature at the same time as to haughty maxims. (...) |