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lery of the Louvre contains upward of two 

 thousand pictures. Among those belonging to 

 the Italian school are twelve Eaphael's, three 

 Correggios, eighteen Titians, thirteen Paul Vero- 

 neses, etc. Among the specimens of the Flem- 

 ish are no fewer than forty-two Rubenses, 

 twenty-two Vandykes, seventeen ,Rembrandts, 

 and eleven Gerard Douws. Of the Spanish 

 great masters there are eleven Murillos and six 

 by Velasquez. The French school possesses 

 but a single specimen of "Watteau, but has forty 

 Poussins, sixteen Claude Lorraines and forty- 

 one Joseph Vernets. To the treasures of this 

 famous museum of art has recently been added 

 a collection of over a hundred specimens of 

 stained glass, of Flemish, German, Dutch, and 

 French manufacture, of dates so late as the 

 Fifteenth and Sixteenth centuries. Sales of 

 pictures are of frequent occurrence in Paris 

 during the spring, and in 1866 the prices re- 

 alized at them were as a rule very high. The 

 works disposed of are generally of the modern 

 continental schools, those of the national school 

 of course predominating. Landscape art may 

 be said to flourish in France, if we may judge 

 by the fact that a collection of pictures by the 

 late M. Troyon, one hundred and fifty in num- 

 ber, fetched recently at auction nearly half a 

 million of francs. Of pictures in progress 

 during the year mention may be made of a 

 large composition by Rosa Bonheur represent- 

 ing cattle and drovers in the Scottish highlands. 

 The popularity of Gustave Dor6 seems unabated, 

 notwithstanding the accumulated demands upon 

 his pencil are beginning to show their ill effects 

 in hasty and crude designs. His illustrated Bible, 

 the first edition of which cost the publisher, M. 

 Mame, over six hundred thousand francs, 

 proved a very profitable undertaking, although 

 the price per volume seemed beyond the reach 

 of most purchasers. The demand for it from 

 Great Britain and the United States has ex- 

 ceeded the utmost expectation of artist or 

 publisher. In 1862 the number of Dora's 

 drawings was said to have reached forty-four 

 thousand, and as he designs for various miscel- 

 laneous publications, besides the great works 

 with which his genius is chiefly identified, it 

 must now exceed fifty thousand. Milton and 

 La Fontaine are the authors whom he has most 

 recently illustrated, and report announces him 

 to be now at work on Shakespeare, and pro- 

 jecting the illustration of Homer, Virgil, Ovid, 

 Tasso, Ariosto, and the leading German and 

 Spanish poets. The propensity to employ 

 plastic art in the erection of monuments to 

 public characters is not less remarkable in 

 France than in England, and in the former 

 country the subjects embrace, perhaps, a wider 

 range. One of the most meritorious works of 

 the year in this department is a full-sized statue 

 of the Empress Josephine, by Vital-Dubray, 

 erected in the open space in front of the 

 bridge of the Alma, in Paris. She is repre- 

 sented in a court dress, holding a medallion of 

 the emperor in her left hand, and resting her 



right on a marble shaft. A sitting figure of 

 Rachel by Duret, in the Comedie Fran$aise, at 

 Paris, has also been highly praised. It repre- 

 sents her in the character of Phedre, and exhib- 

 its no little tragic power both in expression and 

 attitude. One of the most eminent French 

 sculptors, Baron de Triqueti is now executing 

 for Queen Victoria a remarkable series of Bib- 

 lical scenes for the memorial chapel building ia 

 honor of the late Prince Consort. These com- 

 positions are executed in a new style of mosaic, 

 the invention of M. Triqueti, and are composed 

 partly of lines cut into the white stone, and 

 filled with color, and partly of pieces of colored 

 marble inserted into the groundwork. Besides 

 this series, the figures in which are nearly of 

 life-size, and which will form the surface of the 

 interior of the chapel, there will be a large 

 number of bas-reliefs, representing saints, 

 prophets, angels, etc., about a foot high, in 

 white marble, which will be inserted in the 

 angles of the borders of the larger pieces, over 

 the doorways, and in panels and cornices. 

 When finished, these decorations will rank 

 among the most exquisite creations of the 

 chisel. 



GERMANY. The forty-fifth exhibition of living 

 artists was opened in Berlin, in September, 

 with 931 works of art, of which 788 were oil 

 paintings. Notwithstanding the interruption 

 caused by the recent European war, the exhi- 

 bition was larger than the previous one. Among 

 the painters contributing to it were Andreas 

 and Oswald Achenbach, Hermann, Graeb, Ho- 

 guet, Carl Becker, Knaus, Jordan, Lusch, and 

 Paul Meyerheim. In the same city is to be 

 erected a colossal statue of the architect Schin- 

 kel, who is represented partially enveloped in 

 a cloak, holding in one hand a scroll, and in the 

 other a pencil. The committee having charge 

 of the completion of the Cologne Cathedral has 

 applied to the Prussian Government for permis- 

 sion to obtain by lottery, the remaining funds 

 required for the work. Judging from the suc- 

 cess of a similar scheme in the past year, it is 

 presumed that in nine years more the whole 

 amount needed, .about $2,250,000, will be raised. 

 The Bavarian Government has taken the first 

 steps toward the conservation and ultimate 

 restoration of the ancient Cathedral at Ulm. 

 one of the richest examples of Gothic architec- 

 ture in Germany. The architects, Schmidt, of 

 Vienna, and Denzinger, of Regensburg, have 

 direction of the work. The principal public 

 art undertaking in Munich during the year was 

 the series of frescoes on the Maximilianeum, by 

 Seibertz, Pilotz, and Dietz, representing note- 

 worthy events in Bavarian history. At Vienna 

 the decoration of the Arsenal was continued, 

 and a series of frescoes on the Opera House was 

 commenced by Schwind and Engerth. The 

 latter are intended to illustrate scenes from 

 Mozart's operas, "The Magic Flute," and "The 

 Marriage of Figaro." A monument to the mem- 

 ory of Kepler, the astronomer, has been pro- 

 jected in his native town of Weil, situated in 



