Can we conceive that Rubens painted the "Dead Jesus" without sobs and tears? I had seen acres of paintings in the Kensington Museum in London, in the Louvre in Paris and in Palais de Versailles; but it was reserved for me to see the paintings of Rubens and of Van Dyck last, so that I might know their merit.

The girl in yellow, on the right of the picture, with her handkerchief in her hand and wearing a rich dress, is Giovanna degli Albizzi, who married Lorenzo Tornabuoni at the Villa Lemmi near Florence, that villa from which Botticelli's exquisite fresco, now in the Louvre at the top of the main staircase, in which she again is to be seen, was taken.

This was an interior of one of the galleries in the Louvre with carefully executed miniature copies of some of the most celebrated canvases.

" "Touch him not in her presence as you value your lives," was the agitated reply; "we shall find him at the Louvre on our return.

1266by Bronzino, and the version of Leonardo's S. Anne at the Louvre by Andrea Salaino of Milan (1483?-1520?).

They told me yesterday that you had sent the Titiens and Paul Veroneses of the Louvre to London, in order to be able to make money out of them.

There is a drawing by him in the Louvre of a stalwart man carrying upon his back the corpse of a youth.

At the exhibition in the Louvre for 1827, was a carpet which occupied two years in making, and contains 3 or 4,000 ostrich feathers.

The Venus of Milo was no longer in the Louvre against its red background, where French taste has placed it, the better to set it off.

We buckled on our armor and began sight-seeing the other day, going to see the Sainte Chapelle and the galleries and museum of the Louvre among the rest.

The English are very much out of favour with the emigrants, as well on account of the stripping of the Louvre as on account of not having shot all the libéraux.

Do you remember also how he ridiculed the Louvre after his first trip to Paris, and swore that nothing would ever induce him to enter it again?"

I wandered through the galleries of the Louvre like one newly gifted with sight.