. McClure's magazine. re beginning his work to station himselfin front of Davids picture of the Horatiias before a shrine, invoking its happy in-fluence. Such devotion received its officialreward, and after five years spent in Romehis great (and tiresome) picture of the Del-uge met with the greatest favor, and in1810 was awarded the medal for the besthistorical picture produced in the preced-ing decade. The Burial of Atala, paintedin 1808, is, however, a work of charm incomposition and sentiment; and though incolor it is dry and uninteresting, is notunworthy of the popularity which it hasenjoy
. McClure's magazine. re beginning his work to station himselfin front of Davids picture of the Horatiias before a shrine, invoking its happy in-fluence. Such devotion received its officialreward, and after five years spent in Romehis great (and tiresome) picture of the Del-uge met with the greatest favor, and in1810 was awarded the medal for the besthistorical picture produced in the preced-ing decade. The Burial of Atala, paintedin 1808, is, however, a work of charm incomposition and sentiment; and though incolor it is dry and uninteresting, is notunworthy of the popularity which it hasenjoyed from the vantage ground of theLouvre for more than four-score died in Paris, December 9, 1824,after having received all the official honorswhich France can award to a painter. The charming face of Marie-Anne-Eliza-beth Vigee-Februn, who, with the arms ofher daughter encircling her, smiles on ushere, was undoubtedly not painted in thiscentury, as the painter was born in Paris 156 A CENTURY OF BRUTUS CONDEMNING HIS SONS TO DEATH. FROM A PAINTING BY LETHIERE. Brutus led in overthrowing the tyranny of Tarquin the Proud and establishing a republic in Rome. He was thenelected one of the two consuls. His two sons were detected in a conspiracy to restore Tarquin, and he, as consul, himselfcondemned them to death. April 16, 1755, and it is as a young mother her departure she was high in favor at thethat she has represented herself. But as its court, and painted no less than twenty por-author lived until March 30, 1842, she traits of Marie Antoinette,should undoubt- edly figureamong the paint-ers of this cen-tury. From earlygirlhood untilold age, liLebr it n , de labeaute lepeintre etle modele as Laharpe sang,was, thoughlargely self-taught, a for-midable concur-rent to paintersof the sternersex. Marriedwhen very youngto Lebrun, adealer in picturesand critic of art,a pure marriageof convention,she left Franceshortly beforethe Revolution,and went toItaly. Before
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