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infpeétor !- As foon as the whole is ar- 
ranged, we may expeét from the pen of 
Vifcenti, in a feries of volumes, a learned 
Account of every thing in it. 
In Paris, they looked forward with 
impatience to the exhibition of the fo 
much-talked of antiques brought from 
Ttaly.. And furely there is every reafon to 
be fatished with the difpatch of the admi- 
niftrators, and with the liberality of the 
government, which, at a time when the 
political arithmeticians D*Ivernois and 
Genz difputed the exiftence of a fingle 
penny in the pubtic treafury, allotted con- 
fiderable fums towards s fiting up the.Mu- 
feum in a manner worthy of a great na- 
tion. Before the Revolution, the great 
Gallery of the Louvre, which Henry iV. 
built along the Seine from the Thuilleries, 
to conneét the two palaces, was ‘appropri- 
ated to the Academy of Painting and the 
magnificent Colle&tion of Paintings be- 
“Jonging tothe King. During the “Revo 
Jution, the whole of the Louvre was con- 
verted into a Palace of the Arts; and the 
free acce!s to the Gallery of Paintings, 
new enriched by the addition of fo many 
trealures, drew forth the warm thanks and 
praifes of natives and foreigners. Here 
the National Inttitute holds: its fittings: 
here many learned men and artifts have a 
free dweiling : here flands the telegraph 
which gives the fignals to thofe in the di- 
rection of Lifle: .and here are the apart- 
ments for the antiques belonging ‘co the 
Central Mufeum of the Arts.—On the 
18th of lat Brumaire*, the Gallery was 
‘opened for the admiffion of the public, and 
it may now be viewed on the three lait 
days of every decade. 
To enable the reader the better to un- 
derftard the following Defcription, an Ich- 
nography is annexed, with numbers cor- 
re{ponding to thofe in the Catalogue. 
From this Plan,it appearsthat fixrooms are 
already filled up. ‘The projecting part, 
where the principal entrance is to be, will 
contain one, perhaps two, more: here it 
is intended to place the Torfo; and pro- 
bably the Greek Vafes, now in the Mu- 
feum, and feveral bas-reliefs which could 
not hitherto be fixed up; as, for inftance, 
that from the Capitoline Mufeum, which 
reprefents the nine Mufes.—The prefent 
entrance into the Gallery is below, to the 
lft of the fiairs leading to the Gallery of 
Paintings. In the Plan, the way is 
peinted out by . . . . In the court 
we fee, among others, the four colcilal 
Statues of Slaves, which were formerly 
* Wovember the 3th. 
Gallery of Antiques in the Paris Maufeum. 
[July 
chained to the Statue of Lovis XIV. in 
the Place des Viftoires. In our Plan they 
are denoted by the lettersg.g.g:g¢. At 
b, to the left of the entrance, ftlands, in a 
niche, the beautiful Fupiter-Hermes, which 
was formerly at Verlailles.—We fhall now 
conduc our readers into the Gallery it-. 
felf, proceeding direGly to the Hall farthelt- 
hall on the Icft hand, and called . 
I. Salle des Saifons*.—So called, becaufe the 
cleling, painted by Romanelli, Sy RS the 
four Seafons of the Year: inthis hall, there- 
fere, rural deities in particular have been 
placed. 
No. 50. 4 Faun in a Poftare of reff, cloathed 
with the zedris: found in the year 1701, 
ear Civita-Lavinia (Lanuvium), and removed 
.to the Mufeum Capitolinum by order of 
Pope Benetidt XIV.—-(Pentelican marble). 
‘No. 51. Tirexr @ halt: the well known 
Spinarius, or a young Athlete, who has gained 
the prize in the foot-race of the ftadium. 
Wes taken from the Palace of the Confervator 
in the Capitol, Jt is uncertain where this 
hac was found, —( Bronze.) 
No. 52. 4 Faun ftanding, and quite suilceaks 
—with his thepherd’s ftat¥ he feems toa be 
{triking at a panther, which has overturned a 
veffel at his feet. 
No. 53. A fimilar. Fauna with the haa 
Both of Parian marble, and apparently by the 
fame artift.—Both are in a good ftate of pre- 
fervation. 
No. 54. Venus coming out of the bath 5 
with -the falfe infcription Bouraacg Esrots 5 - 
found near Salone, on the road from Rome to 
Paleftrina. Pius Vi. purchafed it for the 
Mufeum Pio-Clementinum, from La Piccole 
the painter.—(Pentelican marble). - 
No. 55. Flora or Polyhymuia, found at Vis: 
voli, in the Villa Adriani.. Benedict XIV. 
placed it in the Mufeum Capitolinum.—({Pen- 
telican marble). 
No, 56. Ceres, wrapped in a wide mantle : 
carries ears of corn in her hand, and has a 
chaplet round her head. 
No. 57. Hyg@ia, of Parian marble: the 
hands have been reftored by a modern artift 5 
but the greateft part of the ferpeat is we 
tique. 
No. 58. Amor and Pfyche, embracing one- 
another. This groupe was formerly in the 
colle@ion of Cardinal Alexander Albani, 
whence it came into the Muf. Capitol. under 
_the pontificate of Clement XIV.—(Parian 
marble). . 
No. 59. Ariadne: the fleeping ftatue 
known by the name of Cleopatra. Since the 
time of Julius JJ. it had been inthe Belveders 
of the Vatican.—(Parian marble). - 
No. 60. Cuzpid bending his bow: of de 
marble; the right arm and the legs only are. 
of modern wormanthigs Brought from the 
Mufeum Pio-Clementinum. +, .. 
- ® Hall of the Seafons, 
. ce ne No. 61, 
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