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Excerpt from Corot and Millet: With Critical Essays; Winter 1902-3
In this way he has been able to combine firm drawing with accidentalness Of colour, and so to give them that charm which is so much appreciated by artists.
The designs are of subjects connected With the fanciful mermaid myth, and, to borrow a term used in the sister art of music, they can With great exactness be termed rhapsodies.
The peculiar treatment of the surface under the enamel causes every change of light on the vases to bring out new qualities of colour, yet With all the mystery, the complete drawing of the figures is never obscured.
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