![]() In the meanwhile the index of the Gazette des Beaux- Arts will reveal what an impression Goya's paintings and etchings had been creating in the French studios. Nine years later came' a more ambitious performance by Charles Yriarte. The first biography of Goya, by Laurent Matheron, was published in France, and appropriately dedicated to Eugene Delacroix. England has been comparatively late in its appreciation of Goya, but across the Channel a steady stream of critical exegesis has flowed from the day when Theophile Gautier returned to Paris after his voyage of discovery beyond the Pyrenees. The time seems ripe for a volume which attempts to show this fine genius in relation to the art of his own country, as well as to that of the other schools of painting in Europe. Richard Muther, no biography of Francisco Goya has yet appeared in English. Calvert, together with a translation of a slight critical essay by Dr. ![]() WITH the exception of two short monographs by Mr.
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