The Express.
London, England, 1857-06-18 00:00:00

FINE ARTS.

THE FRENCH EXHIBITION.
Unlike the various national picture exhibitions in
London, which remain intact from the day of their
private view until their final dada& the little col-
Letisa at French weeks of an in Pall-mall is con-
steady receiving beak additions and losing ebteata-
Wished favourites, whisk, i the anneal sewn of
mundane affairs, retire to mks kr tlie new
corners. The latest and glestest is a
picture fresh from the easel at MA/wales Dealwer,
entitled in the catalogue " lbewrisains aeaarat the
Pyrenees, Asps mountain, read Nei has tsU "
and representing two muleteer,, sesengoied by sone
.twenty mules descending a moantnia gorge. The
description of such a subject reads trimly enough.
Without the least racking of brain we can reckon
five well known English artists saispetrat to paint
it in a manner which abseil make bet little fault
finding ; but we cannot mine sae who maid infuse
into it one tithe of the *di, sernisteres, end truth
with which Mdlle. Bauer *tun is boated.
Far away in the distant baskesseri are seen the
snow-covered tops of Use 11111111*1114 standing out
clearly defined is the pun bush, beeyam aeno-
spbere—that atmosphere which raises the spirits
and inflates the fangs, and which we have seldom
or ever seen so admirably rendered. Through the
gorge and over the brow of a hill come the males in
one striving, jostling swarm, decked with jaunty
red head gear, and staring forward with that air of
mingled astonishment and stupidity which is so tho-
roughly their characteristic. Never have we seen
that downhill motion, which bends the forelegs and
gives a curious swinging unsteuliness to the hind-
quarters of animals in a descent, so exactly caught :
the figure of the foremost muleteer, seated
,jauntily
on the back of ore of the mules, is full of lithe and
yielding motion. The details of the foreground, the
of Lemountain track, and the deep-brown shadows
drots are also marvellously painted.
Among Englishmen Mdlle. 's name was
rendered famous by the " Hone Fair ;" but we
question if our well-informed connoisseurs, against
even that impressionable body the " general public,"
will not give the preference to the picture now ex-
hibited, which combines with the power of the
former, the deep sentiment and harmony of " The
Hayfield."

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