already entered under the
guidance of the shepherd and his dog, who stand near. The horizon is
low, and just above it swings a swollen moon, shaped like a cup, from
which floods of pale light fill the scene with color. If this were Mr.
Walters's only contribution it would be sufficient to place us under a
heavy obligation to him. The "St. Sebastian" is a large canvas,
measuring four feet wide by eight feet high, which was first shown at
the _Salon_ of 1853, and afterwards twice received important changes
at the artist's hands. It shows an opening in a great wood, with the
saint reclining on the ground tended by two holy women, while above
appear some angels who bear the martyr's palm and crown. Rousseau's
"Le Givre" is well described by Sensier, who says in his "_Souvenirs
sur Th. Rousseau_," it represents "the hills of Valmondois as seen a
mile away across the Oise, along the des Forgets road. The composition
could not be more simple. Little hillocks heaped in the foreground are
covered with half-melted snow, and the sun, red in the midst of a
leaden sky, is seen dying and threatening through the clouds." The
"Suicide," of Decamps, shows the body of a young artist stretched
lifeless on his pallet in a gloomy room, and is painted with
extraordinary force. The "Sunset," by Daubigny, describes a scene on
the French coast with some cows near a pool separated from the sea
only by a few yards. The foreground is rich in sombre greens and
browns, the ocean a glorious blue and the sky tinged with the roses of
sunset.

A superb specimen of the lately dead veteran, Jules Dupre, "The Old
Oak," is lent by Mr. John G. Johnson, who contributes several other
pictures, among them a fine "Going to the Fair," by Troyon, in which
is seen a drove of cattle and sheep, with a woman on horseback behind
talking to a man. Another still finer Troyon, the "Drove of Cattle and
Sheep," which brought $26,000 at the Spencer sale, is lent by Mr.
Cornelius Vanderbilt. It will be recalled as showing a flock of sheep
coming along a road toward the spectator, while behind are two cows,
one with head uplifted to avoid the threatening stick of the drover--a
dumb but eloquent protest against man's cruelty. Corot's lovely "Lake
Nemi," the property of Mr. Thomas Newcombe, is here, while Mr. Jay
Gould sends his "Evening"; Mr. William F. Slater, of Norwich, Conn.,
the "Fauns and Nymphs," and Mr. Charles A. Dana his beautiful "Dance
of Loves." To the same gentle