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One should be able to handle a book with ease, and not be forced to rest content with beholding it displaying its beauties behind glass or on the library shelf; and Madame Thaulow understood this perfectly when she executed the bindings now reproduced here.
This artist paints portraits in miniature and in life size. Her works are numerous and have been seen in many exhibitions. <b>THAULOW, MME. ALEXANDRA.</b> Wife of the great Scandinavian painter. This lady is an artist in bookbinding and her work is much admired.
The same dean and Bjoernson became the best of friends afterwards, and found much sport in interchanging genial jests whenever they met." Frits Thaulow, the painter, thus wrote to Bjoernson reminding him of a festive gathering of students: "The manager came in and announced with a loud voice that it was past twelve. Then you sprang up. "'Bring champagne!
The several masters of the outdoor school were now called up, their merits discussed and their failings hammered: Thaulow, Sorolla y Bastida, the new Spanish wonder, whose exhibition the month before had astonished and delighted Paris: the Glasgow school; Zorn, Sargent, Winslow Homer all the men of the direct, forceful school, men who swing their brushes from their spines instead of their finger-tips were slashed into and made mincemeat of or extolled to the skies.
Some nights we went to the Café de la Paix on the Rive Droite; other nights, to the Café d'Harcourt on the Rive Gauche; and occasionally to the Café de la Régence where many artists went, especially foreign artists, and more especially Scandinavians. I seem to retain a vision of Thaulow, a blond giant more than fitting in the corner of the little raised enclosure in the front of the café.
We were all on our feet now examining the sketches all running-brook studies most of them made in that same pair of high-water boots. No one but the late Fritz Thaulow approaches him in giving the reality of this most difficult subject for an outdoor painter.
So after a tactful introduction to the self-absorbed merrymakers, now in all stages of stimulated exuberance, he conducted his guest on a tour of inspection about his rooms. "So, you like etchings? I want you to see my five Whistlers. Here is my Fritz Thaulow, and there is my Corot. This crayon by Von Lenbach is a favorite of mine."
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