| (....) After rocky and monumental Greece, it is the splendid austerity of Spain which has just retained the humanist from the studio of Gustave Moreau that Pierre Girieud remained; from the medieval ramparts of Avila, the harsh lines of Segovia to the gardens of Granada, Castile or Extramadura, to the Muslim limpness of Andalusia, its clear and firm studies, disdainful of the easy effects, suggest the interest intellectual that a traveling painter found in the contemplation of these severe sites with horizons barred by the two floors of a Roman aqueduct. (....) |