| (...) The works of Pierre Girieud, exhibited at the Rosenberg Gallery, are remarkable from various points of view. We do not estimate the least from which one appreciates the continuity of the effort of this painter, his regular development, logical in a way. Mr. Girieud was endowed with all that was necessary to turn things around badly. An allegorical painter, possessor of a harmonious form, purified of certain youthful excesses, he could - and it has often been noted - become a kind of Gustave Moreau. This danger is no longer to be considered. (...) |