"A FUNERAL AT ORNANS,' BY GUSTAVE COURBET. NOW IN THE GALLERY OF THE LOUVRE, PARIS Haussard, the critic, said of this at the time it was painted: "It is a masquerade funeral, with more to laugh at than to weep over.' Paul Mantz declared that "the most extravagant fancy could not descend to such repulsive hideousness." This painting is now one of the most cherished possessions of the Louvre.

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"One of the group known as 'The Eight,' who translates the groups of nurses and children, playing in the park, or on the beaches, into a curiously decorative mosaic of pink, blue, and green spots, which give in their colour and texture something of the joyousness suited to the occasion."-Samuel Isham, History of American Painting.

Edmond About said of the artist: "He has taken-I know not whence--some tones of washed flesh, rewashed and soaked in water. His picture is almost like a painting on porcelain; but it has not even the compensation of the freshness and the smile of enamel." Although to-day deservedly forgotten, Winterhalter was a favourite painter of Queen Victoria and the Empress Eugénie."

Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Richard Muther, in his History of Art, says: "His pictures were held to be a practical joke which the painter was playing on the public; the most unheard-of farce that had ever been painted. If any one had declared that these works would give the impulse to a revolution in art people would have turned their backs on him or thought he was jesting."

BY J. FRANK CURRIER From a photograph now in the possession of William A. Chase, Esq. Of all the Americans who studied in Munich, Currier was the most radical in his broad, loose handling, his generalisation of forms and his unctuous way of painting. His recognition was tardy, and he never achieved any popularity.