Joseph Saint-Germier (1860-1925)
[Joseph F. Saint-Germier]

Pupil of:

Galland, Cabanel, and Bonnat

An appropriate pendant to "Sleep" is "A Couch of Roses" by Joseph Saint-Germier, another artist whose decorative pictures have gained him merited distinction. He is a native of Toulouse, and after commencing his studies at the art academy of his native city, became a pupil in Paris of the famous painter Galland, from whom his mastery of the style of subjects he adopted was largely derived. Those who have had the good fortune to visit the New York mansion of the late William H. Vanderbilt, now the home of his widow and of his younger son, Mr. George W. Vanderbilt, and have examined the magnificent decorations of that American palace, will recall, among them, the ceiling and wall paintings executed to order for the places they occupy by Galland, and form from them that idea of the beauties of color in the pictures of his gifted disciple which our illustration cannot convey.

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