THE TEMPTATION OF ST. ANTHONY 

 Hand-painted Photogravure from the Painting 'by C. E. de Beaumont 



Few religio-classical subjects have received so much attention at the hands 

 of painters as " The Temptation of St. Anthony," a theme that possesses the 

 human interest to the utmost, and is fairly a composite of worldly desire and 

 pious abnegation. The picture which is here reproduced is from the brush 

 of the very distinguished painter, de Beaumont, whose treatment of the popular 

 story is not more original than it is impressive and beautiful. The ac- 

 cessories are so appropriate, the figures so characteristic that the composition 

 needs neither description nor interpretation, since every feature perfectly 

 reflects the incident and reveals the sentiment that invests the temptation. 



