ABSTRACT
Grez-sur-Loing is a little village just twelve kilometres to the south-west of Fontainebleau and 64 kilometres south-east of Paris. In Alfred Robaut’s book L’oeuvre de Corot: Catalogue raisonne et illustre, print number 895 is Grez-sur-Loing – Pont et Eglise, with the date of its genesis given as between 1850 and 1860, making it one example of the earlier works Corot painted in Grez. Moto Otaguro’s introduction of Frederick Delius to Japan through the medium of his translations from 1930 onward was remarkable in that it was relatively early and described current trends in Europe. In 1901, the year A Village Romeo and Juliet was completed; two more Japanese painters visited Grez. For Japanese Delius researchers, Otaguro’s impression is surprising: few of them would agree with his view that Delius’s music was geared more toward the past than the future. Cecil Gray’s writings on Delius are full of interesting detail, and even today they have not lost any of their freshness.
