| (...) A glance of wing: following Mr. Girieud let us escape towards Provence, an austere Provence, with hills of a noble rhythm keeping in their folds houses and buildings.
The art of M. Girieud has nothing of the prime-jumping exuberance that one lends to the Southerners: it is by voluntary concentration, by sustained effort that he arrives at the goal and that he moves . Sometimes it does not avoid heaviness: that we look for example at some drapery behind a nude, but always it expresses disinterestedness and nobility, always it arouses interest and sympathy. Two decorative sketches prove that Mr. Girieud keeps, by developing them, all his science of rhythm and composition, and that the day when large walls require his effort, the result will be those that will have to be studied. On all this, there is much to develop. But, in truth, the painters are too!
Reproduction of the Guard and the Coudon, acquired by the State |